Anglo-Irish architect, author, critic, and educator Robert Maxwell died on January 2, in his 98th year, at his vacation home in Aix-en-Provence. Emeritus professor of architecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture, where he had been its dean (1982-1989), and prolific author of books and critical commentaries, Maxwell had played key roles at both the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Architectural Association School in London, in addition to Princeton.
I first met him in 1964, when I arrived at the Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London), where he was to be my supervisor for a prospective doctoral degree. Within a few months, this intellectual, brilliant, and personally generous tutor had introduced me to the legendary London architectural intelligentsia that eventually numbered Reyner Banham, Alan Colquhoun, Kenneth Frampton, Charles Jencks, Colin Rowe, Joseph Rykwert, Sam Stevens, James Stirling, and Antony Vidler, among others.
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