[1][2] At the AA he received the RIBA Howard Colls Travelling Studentship Award in 1959, allowing him to study for a short time at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
Westman gave guest lectures on architectural history at the AA, Cambridge, Oxford Brookes and Bath until 1999.
[9][6] Between June and July 1981, Westman exhibited his scheme 'Walls: A Framework for Communal Anarchy' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
[7][14][15] Whilst still a student, he worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company as a set designer on productions of As You Like It, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and others.
[1] He was a maternal cousin of Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset and a great-great-grandson of soldier and poet Sir Edward Christopher Richard Ulick Branch KCMG CBE.