Background
Margolius was born in Prague, son of JUDr Rudolf Margolius, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, and Heda Margolius Kovály, Czechoslovakian writer and translator, both parents being Holocaust survivors.
Margolius was born in Prague, son of JUDr Rudolf Margolius, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, and Heda Margolius Kovály, Czechoslovakian writer and translator, both parents being Holocaust survivors.
He attended primary and secondary schools there and started to study architecture at the Czechoslovakian Technical University in Prague. He settled in the United Kingdom where he became a naturalized citizen in 1973 and where he completed his architectural studies at the Polytechnic of Central London.
Margolius left Czechoslovakia in 1966 because of political persecution of his family. Margolius is an author of numerous articles and books on art, architecture, automobiles, design and history.