Peter Meinhard Moro CBE FRIBA (27 May 1911 – 10 October 1998) was a London-based architect whose practice developed many notable public buildings.
[2] Moro was briefly interned as an "enemy alien" on the Isle of Wight, then from 1941–47 taught at the Regent Street Polytechnic establishing a reputation as someone who knew how to teach architecture in a modern way.
[3] His design for his own house at 20, Blackheath Park, a pavilion with a raised living floor, was one of the first post-war buildings to be listed.
Moro rejected criticisms of modern architecture, but in a way his whole output was a critique of what he called "the banality of functionalism", which, as he repeatedly demonstrated, could be overcome by the imaginative and technically skilful transformation of the ordinary.
[1] National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/7) with Peter Moro in 1996 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.