John Winter (16 May 1930 – 12 November 2012) was a British architect born in Norwich who lived and worked in London.
[1] Winter had two sons, Timothy[2] (now Abdul-Hakim Murad), Henry, the football correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, and a daughter, Martha, an artist.
From 1950 to 1953 he studied at the Architectural Association[3] in London and subsequently undertook national service with the Royal Engineers and learned to weld.
He returned to education in the U.S. where he studied at Yale and then moved to San Francisco, where he worked for both Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Charles Eames.
[6] Winter retained close links with the Architectural Association during his career, teaching from 1960 to 1964 with students including Jeremy Dixon, Edward Jones and Nicholas Grimshaw, and went on to become a member of Council, Honorary Secretary and as a trustee of the AA Foundation.