RIP Peter Beaven

Let me add to the many tributes paid to a dear colleague and mentor Peter Beaven who passed away this week.  The architectural tributes are understandably glowing. My thinking is that while his lungs eventually gave in, I know his heart would have been as big and passionate as ever. That heart gave me such inspiration in dealing with the academic constraints at the Auckland School of Architecture in the late sixties. His influence on my own modest... Read More