Guy Danjoux gained a Diploma in Architecture at the Northern Polytechnic, London, c1957, before enrolling in the Architectural Association’s six-month, post-graduate course within the Department of Tropical Architecture. He married in England and then returned to Mauritius in 1960, in the aftermath of the horrific Cyclone Carol, which saw 70,000 people displaced and living in refugee camps. Danjoux was employed by the Ministry of Housing, Lands and Town and Country Planning, based in Port Louis, and rose to the position of Chief Town and Country Planning Officer by the mid-1970s. In 1976 he was part of the Mauritian delegation at the HABITAT UN Conference on Human Settlements , held in Vancouver. Five years later he also contributed to the US International Development Cooperation Agency’s 7th Conference on Housing in Africa, hosted in Mauritius, in 1981, where he presented a major paper entitled ‘The Market Survey: A Tool For Resolving Policy Questions and Determining Design Priorities’. By the 1990s he had retired from civil service and ran his own practice, ‘Danjoux Associates’, based in the town of Quatre Bornes.

Sources

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• Architectural Association Membership List, 1961
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• Royal Institute of British Architects Directory of Members, 1996, pM-105