He grew up in Essex, England, attending British state schools where he met his wife, teacher Janet Bance - before studying Architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (the Associate of Arts), gaining his Diploma and the Bristol Prize (1969).
Evans studied the history of prison architecture for his doctorate.
His essays and reviews were published in journals including Lotus, Casa Bella, Architectural Review and Associate of Arts Files. He lectured at the Polytechnic of Central London, the Cambridge school of architecture, England, the Associate of Arts, and the Bartlett School, University College London. Evans also lectured widely in the United States of America at Harvard, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Cornell.
Before his death he completed The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press,1995).
A history of architecture from Early Renaissance to post-modernity - Evans writes about architectural concern for the meanings of space and matter, perception and imagination.
