David Critchlow attended the Architectural Association, London from 1950-55. As part of his final year’s studies, Critchlow joined the first cohort of the newly formed AA Department of Tropical Architecture (DTA). Critchlow’s subsequent architectural career included his own practice, as David Critchlow Associates, based in Paddenswick Road, London, and also working as a partner and associate of Burnham Critchlow Associates of Wareham, Dorset, and Critchlow Osgood, based in London in the 1980s. He is noted as having retired from architecture in 1997, self-publishing a book of his own photographs in 2017. David’s brother, Keith Critchlow (1933-2020), an artist and specialist in Islamic architecture and sacred geometry, subsequently taught at the AA in the mid 1960s.

Sources:

• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Department of Tropical Architecture, student listing, Otto Koenigsberger Collection, Box OK27, AA Archives
• 'International Architects ...A Guide to RIBA Practices', RIBA Publishing, 1982
• Emma van Lindholm (ed.) 'David Critchlow: Photographs'. CreateSpace, 2016