His father, Bob Feilden, was an engineer who served as the Director General of the British Standards Institution from 1970 to 1981.
[2] He was known to be outspoken, honest and critical of the problems with building design and wider issues, such as global sustainability.
"[1] In 1998 he became part of Lord Rogers' Urban Task Force[2] and, in 2000, was appointed to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
[1] Feilden was accidentally killed in Warleigh on 3 January 2005, when a tree fell on him while he was clearing a patch of woodland as a memorial to his father,[1] who had died eight months earlier.
[3] In tribute the 2005 RIBA President, George Ferguson, said of Feilden: "He showed that good architecture needn't be showy or iconic.