David Leatherbarrow Author & Editor

Eric Parry studied architecture at the University of Newcastle, the Royal College of Art and the Architectural Association. He spent a year studying nomadic settlement in Iran and low-cost housing in Kuwait and India in 1974– 75. He established his practice, Eric Parry Architects, in 1983, the year Eric was appointed as a lecturer in architecture at the University of Cambridge where he taught until 1997. He maintains a key involvement in all the practice’s projects, particularly in their design development. Under his leadership the practice has developed a reputation for delivering beautifully crafted and well considered buildings. In 2006 he was elected Royal Academician (RA).

Owen Hopkins is Senior Curator of Exhibitions and Education at Sir John Soane’s Museum, London.

David Leatherbarrow is Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Graduate Group in Architecture at the University