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The Membership Office has learnt that Architect and Urban Designer Andrew Mahaddie (AADipl 1963) passed away 8 April 2014. Andrew was a Member of the AA throughout his career and became a Life Member in 2012. His wife Clare Mahaddie has kindly sent us this obituary of her late husband:

ANDREW (BO) MAHADDIE AA Dip, M Urb Des.

Andrew Mahaddie (latterly known as Bo) died unexpectedly after a short illness on 8^th April 2014.

I met Bo in the first year studio at the AA in 1958 as did many of the friends who were at his memorial event in Campbell Park, Milton Keynes last May.

Although he could and did design buildings, Bo’s outstanding skills lay in design at larger (and smaller) scales and his ability to produce inspirational images and explain complex ideas in graphic form

The AA course encouraged his interest in planning and landscape design and after graduating in 1963 he studied Urban Design at Washington University, St Louis, worked for EDAW in LA and spent a year with SOM’s Urban Design Concept team in Washington DC.

Back in the UK, he was recruited to Milton Keynes Development Corporation in 1970. His joyful and exciting images of the future city did much to promote the project. He also created several major landscape features including the Belvedere, a dramatic landmark in Campbell Park made from road construction spoil.

Later he taught at the Bartlett and at the South Bank Poly. He also spent time teaching at UCL and USC in Los Angeles, which he much enjoyed.

Subsequently at Conran Roche and then in his 18 years at YRM, he developed the masterplans for many small new towns, hospitals and university campuses in the UK and abroad, most recently in India, his favourite location.

Clare Mahaddie

August 2014