Letter from London

摘要

Too many good people from the world of architecture have left us this year. January saw the premature death of Kathryn Findlay, and now Paul Katz of KPF has passed on, aged only 57.1 knew both of them, and had the pleasure of discussing architecture and life with them on various occasions over the years. Particularly poignant for me was the news of Paul Katz's death, because only a few weeks earlier I had spent time with him in Sydney, where we travelled after the World Architecture Festival, to take part in a discussion event about the city's future. An afternoon we spent with David Tregoning, the former head of Woods Bagot, sailing on his yacht round Sydney harbour, will now be inextricably linked with later sad news.