[1] In Britain he finished his schooling and worked for a year for the architect Cecil Epril (1897–1982) before starting his architecture training at Regent Street Polytechnic, London (1958).

By this stage, Rogers had given up teaching, to concentrate on Team 4, but informally he continued to mentor Tábori and recommended he should incorporate some real sites and briefs.

Tábori was also influenced by Rogers’ interest in environmental design, which became evident at Highgate New Town – one of the first times that ‘ecological’ principles were applied to British council housing.

Tábori stayed with Denys Lasdun & Partners for three years (1965–68), working on the University of East Anglia, including the terraced ziggurat-like halls of residence and spending five months on the details of the pre-cast concrete with engineers Ove Arup – an experience that he would put to good use at Highgate New Town.

While still working for Denys Lasdun, in the autumn of 1967 Tábori was invited by Camden's borough architect Sydney Cook to attend an informal interview.

Due to pressure of work, delivery of the scheme was given to outside architects (first Roman Halter and then James Gowan) who made a number of changes (including red brick facing instead of concrete) without affecting the fundamentals of the design.

[4] While Highgate New Town was under construction, Tábori designed a third housing scheme, for a corner site at the junction of Mill Lane and Solent Road, which was eventually completed in 1981.

With the revival of interest in the low-rise high-density format developed at Camden, Highgate New Town received renewed attention in the early 21st century, notably from Mark Swenarton (2017) who documented Tábori's work for the first time, but also from David Levitt and Jo McCafferty,[6] and Mike Althorpe and Abigail Batchelor.