Robert Maguire (architect)

[2] After graduating from the AA, Maguire worked as the buildings editor for Architects' Journal for four years, as well as contributing to Architectural Review.

The group also included architects Peter Gilbey, John Newton (Burles, Newton & Partners), Patrick Nuttgens, George Pace, Patrick Reyntiens (stained glass artist), Austin Winkley, Lance Wright, as well as Catholic priest and theologian Charles Davis.

Their practice designed a number of important modernist churches including: Maguire had been introduced to a charismatic teacher of existential psychotherapy, Catherine Ginsberg, through his friend Joseph Rykwert.

This experience influenced how Maguire & Murray approached the design of student accommodation, which emphasised the concept of a large house sharing communal living and dining rooms.

One of the areas that Maguire’s department focused on was environmentally responsive architecture that developed modern design enriched by local traditions.

[3] By this time much of the architectural practice's work lay in conservation, reordering churches and making alterations to Oxford colleges.

[14] Maguire died on 8 February 2019 from a combination of metastatic prostate cancer, ischaemic heart disease, and congestive cardiac failure.