Joachim Maier is recorded as studying Architecture at King’s College, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, (now Newcastle University), graduating in the early 1950s. According to documents in the Architectural Association Archives, Maier had gained experience with a practice in Newcastle before attending the AA’s Department of Tropical Architecture course from 1955 to 1956. Little is known to us regarding his subsequent career. He he appears he have returned to Newcastle after graduation but by the mid-1960s was once more living in London. He passed away in 2022.

 Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Department of Tropical Architecture, student listing, Otto Koenigsberger Collection, Box OK27, AA Archives
• London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers, 1964, LCC/PER/B/2974
• GreyPower Deceased Data; compiled by Wilmington Millennium; West Yorkshire, England; England and Wales Death Indexes
• Tyne and Wear Archives; Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; Collection: Newcastle Electoral Registers; Reference Number: MD.NC/D/2/3/1957
• General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, Volume: 1b; Page: 124