Walter Segal

[3][1] They spent the time of the First World War in Ascona close to an alternative community called Monte Verità.

[4] Walter Segal studied architecture among the pioneers of the Modern Movement in Berlin and Delft, Netherlands,[5] and received his first commission in 1932 from a patron of his father, Bernhard Mayer, to build a small wooden holiday cabin in Ascona.

In 1934–1935 he worked in Egypt studying and illustrating dynastic chairs and stools, primarily those from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

He taught at the school, wrote in trade journals, published a couple of books and had a few small architectural commissions.

In the 1970s Lewisham Borough Council made three small sites, unsuitable for mainstream housing, available for people to build their own homes using the method.