Peter Moro

Peter Meinhard Moro, CBE (27 May 1911 – 10 October 1998) was a London-based architect whose practice developed many notable public buildings.

Moro was born in Heidelberg, Germany to Professor Ernst Moro, a renowned Austrian physician and pediatrician, and Margareta Hönigswald.

He initially trained in Stuttgart and then at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Technical Academy. Having a Jewish grandmother, he was obliged to move to Zurich for his final two years, studying under Otto Salvisberg.

On graduating in 1936 he moved to London with no money and limited English. He worked for two years with Berthold Lubetkin, "by far the most interesting architect I ever worked with."

In 1938, Moro and Richard Llewelyn-Davies were commissioned to build a house, Harbour Meadow at Birdham, Sussex, one of the least known but most original modern houses of the 1930s, now Grade II listed.

Moro was briefly interned as an "enemy alien" on the Isle of Wight, then from 1941-47 taught at the Regent Street Polytechnic establishing a reputation as someone who knew how to teach architecture in a modern way. Students from his class were drafted into the design team for the Festival Hall. "I chose a handful of the best of my former students whose ideas of design were sympathetic to my own." He was made a RIBA Fellow in 1948.

From 1952 to 1984 he led Peter Moro and Partners, designing Fairlawn Primary School, Lewisham in 1957. His design for his own house at 20, Blackheath Park, a pavilion with a raised living floor, was one of the first post-war buildings to be listed. The practice also designed public housing for the Greater London Council and the London Borough of Southwark.

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