Michael Aukett | |
Birth Date: | July 1938 |
Birth Place: | Brentford, Middlesex, England |
Death Date: | 27 October 2020 |
Birth Name: | Michael Claude Aukett |
Practice: | Michael Aukett Associates (now Aukett Swanke) |
Michael Claude Aukett (1938-2020) was a British architect who established a successful architecture practice Michael Aukett Associates in 1972, later becoming Aukett Plc.[1]
Aukett started his career in 1965 at where he quickly became a partner.
In 1972 he established his own practice Michael Aukett Associates (now Aukett Swanke). The practice developed as a multi-disciplinary practice and went public in 1987. He left the practice in 1995 to start a new smaller office Michael Aukett Architects.[1]
He retired in 2009.[1]
Aukett was born and grew up in Brentford Middlesex and studied architecture part time at London's Regent Street Polytechnic (now University of Westminster), completing in 1962. He had a love of sport and was a long time member of the MCC. He was married twice.[1] Michael Claude Aukett died on 27 October 2020: his funeral, attended by both his sons and both his daughters, as well as his former wife and current wife,[1] took place on 7 November 2020 at Poole in Dorset, England,[4]