Alan Harold Colquhoun[1][2] (27 June 1921 – 13 December 2012)[3] was an English architect, historian, critic and teacher.
Colquhoun was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire on 27 June 1921[citation needed] and attended Bradfield School.
In the Second World War Colquhoun was a captain in the Bengal Sappers and Miners, at Roorkee, India, where he first met future friend and architectural colleague Robert Maxwell.
Highlight of their buildings are a noted refurbishment of Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, Forest Gate High School, the Chemistry Building of Royal Holloway College in Surrey, and several houses and housing schemes in London.
He also published works on the architects Michael Graves and on Rafael Moneo and the sculptor Celia Scott.