Lionel John March (26 January 1934 – 20 February 2018)[1][2] was a British mathematician, architect and digital artist, perhaps best known for his early pioneering of computer-aided architecture and art.
[4] For this, March was awarded a state scholarship to read mathematics at Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1954, with a personal recommendation from Alan Turing,[4] where he earned a B.A.
During his studies, March was the President of the Cambridge University Opera Group, for which he designed stage sets.
[5] He held professorships in systems engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario; in design technology at the Open University, Milton Keynes;[6] and from 1984 in the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA, where he was the chair in the period 1985–1991 and was professor emeritus in design and computation until his death.
In 1965 he worked as an assistant of Leslie Martin for the project Whitehall: a Plan for a National and Government Centre,[9] and as such he made one of the first computer-aided architectural investigations.