Philip Hedley Arrand was born in Birmingham, UK, in 1933 but spent part of his childhood in Zimbabwe. He is recorded arriving back in the UK on 14th August, 1951, via Beira, Mozambique, and enrolling at the Architectural Association, London, in 1954, joining the AA 4th Year cohort. As part of his AA 5th Year, Arrand elected to join the Department of Tropical Architecture (DTA) before graduating with an AA Diploma in June 1956.  While at the DTA he was tutored by James McKay Spence on project briefs based in the Gambia, including a ‘Labour Club’ - his thesis is noted as being upon ‘Housing, Rhodesia’. Little is known to us regarding Arrand’s early career but he appears to have gained experience in an architectural office in Harare, working for with Eric Reed Ltd and H. Fish. He was eventually to be appointed Architect to the London Metropolitan Police, with his most notable building being the Thames Magistrates’ Court in Tower Hamlets, London (1990).

Sources:

• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Diploma Roll 1924-1963, AA Archives
• Department of Tropical Architecture, student listing, Otto Koenigsberger Collection, Box OK27, AA Archives
• The National Archives, London, England, UK; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and Successors: Inwards Passenger Lists; Class: Bt26; Piece: 1277; Item: 157
• General Register Office; United Kingdom; Reference: Volume 6d, Page 466
• Cherry, Bridget., O'Brien, Charles., Pevsner, Nikolaus. London: East. United Kingdom: Yale University Press, 2005. p.612