John Michael Stuckey was born in Somerset in 1932 and enrolled at the Architectural Association in 1951. As part of his AA Fifth Year studies, Stuckey attended the AA Department of Tropical Architecture. His joint project for a new town at Bathurst, Gambia survives in the AA Archives, together with the positive jury report on it, by panellists including Jane Drew, James Cubitt and Maxwell Fry.  Immediately after graduating in 1956, Stuckey joined the Architects Department of the London County Council, before co-founding in c1965, the practice of Higgison, Brown and Stuckey, based in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. A respected local practice, their early work included King Alfred Comprehensive School, Burnham-on-Sea (c1973), and extensive new build and alterations for Millfield School, including a technology centre, designed in conjunction with Neville Conder (c1987).

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Diploma Roll Book, 1924-1963, AA Archives
• Department of Tropical Architecture, student listing, Otto Koenigsberger Collection, Box OK27, AA Archives
• South West Heritage Trust: Somerset Archive: S.W. Kenyon photographic negatives and related papers.