He was born on 2 February 1933 in Wanstead, east London to a Polish-Russian father and a Chilean mother, who was from the naval port of Punta Arenas, Tierra Delegate Fuego, the southernmost city on Earth, overlooking the Straits of Magellan.
He was the primary architect of the Tricorn Centre, Portsmouth, and Trinity Square, Gateshead. Situated astride one of the world"s historic trade routes, its prosperity has risen and fallen with that trade. They had initially come to London in the 1880s or 1890s to escape the Pogroms of Russia and Eastern Europe.
He went to University College Hospital Medical School at the age of 16 but then, two years later inspired by the Festival of Britain, he switched to the Hammersmith School of Building, going on to the Architectural Association School of Architecture, where he studied under the distinguished German Jewish modernist architect and urban planner Arthur Korn, before graduating in 1957.
He then went to work at the London County Council (LCC) architects department for which he designed his first great work, the Michael Faraday Memorial at Elephant and Castle. In the 1970s he founded Batir International Architects, which later became Tripos Architects, with Ray Baum and Larry Abbot.
lieutenant was during this time, at the age of 42, that he suffered a heart attack from overwork. In 1979 he designed his last work for Batir, a bronzeand aluminium-clad commercial complex on Street James"s Street, London.
Personal life
He died on 30 May 2008 at the age of 75.
He was a passionate skier and founded the Uphill Ski Club which helps teach the physically handicapped to ski.
