Terence Swales was born in the UK in 1933 and attended the Royal West of England Academy School of Architecture, in Bristol, from 1953, before enrolling as a Third Year student within the Architectural Association’s Diploma Course from September 1956. He was awarded a full County Scholarship and as part of his final year’s studies at the AA (1957-58) opted to take the six-month course held by the Department of Tropical Studies (DTA). Immediately after graduating from this, he travelled to Ghana, where he was employed by Kenneth Scott Associates, in Accra. In 1960 he took a Diploma in Town Planning, at Oxford University, and in 1965 won a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for study of the architectural profession in contemporary American society. He appears to have resided in New York for several years, before returning to the UK and working for Robert Mathew Johnson Marshall (RMJM) as project architect for the neo-vernacular Hillingdon Civic Centre, London, 1971-78 (now a grade two heritage listed building).
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