RIBA Gold Medal-winning architectural historian dies aged 98

Joseph Rykwert, the prominent architectural critic, historian and 2014 recipient of the Royal British Institute of Architects (RIBA) Royal Gold Medal, has died aged 98.

He is among the very few non-practicing architects to be awarded a RIBA Royal Gold Medal.

Born in Warsaw in 1926, Rykwert and his family fled to London following the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939. It was in London that Rykwert embarked on his architectural studies, beginning his education at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, and later enrolling at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.