I have known Martin Pearce, who has died unexpectedly at his home on the Isle of Wight, for over 30 years. We met at Portsmouth School of Architecture in the mid 1980s where we were both studying for our diplomas. Martin was an exceptional teacher of architecture and a fine architect. A lecturer at Portsmouth since the 1990s, he led the history and theory course for over 10 years. As I often said by way of introduction: 'What Martin doesn't know about the history of architecture, from the Middle Ages to the present, wasn't worth knowing', and while he had an exceptional grasp of what makes architecture, and in particular great architecture, he always delivered his understanding with great personal insight and no little amount of wit.
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