Memories from friend and former-student, Chris Earl:
Lionel March was a scholar and artist. He inspired generations of students and colleagues to combine the formal and the creative in planning and design. His contributions to theory and practice ranged from mathematics to painting, from computation to stage set design, from architectural history to architectural practice at its most daring; a modern Alberti. His career at Cambridge in the Department of Architecture, in Canada at the Department of Systems Design Waterloo University, in Milton Keynes at the Open University, in London at the Royal College of Art and in Los Angeles at UCLA, was remarkable for his individual achievements, the research groups he established but most of all for his outstanding generosity in sharing ideas. Talking with Lionel made people think differently. His students and colleagues loved him for this generosity while university administrators were often exasperated by his mercurial mischievousness. His eye for the winner, in supporting new talent and new ideas in Design, was unrivalled.
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