John Robert Furneaux Jordan ARIBA (10 April 1905 Birmingham – 14 May 1978 Burcombe, Wiltshire) was an English architect, architectural critic and novelist. He worked as an architect from 1928 to 1961, after which he became an academic, broadcaster and lecturer, writing many books on architecture.
A son of the prominent surgeon John Furneaux Jordan,[1] Robert Jordan was educated at West House Preparatory School from 1915 to 1918 and then King Edward's School, Birmingham from 1918 to 1922. He studied at the Birmingham School of Art for three years before going to the Architectural Association School in 1926. He received his diploma from there in 1928.[2]
Other positions occupied were:
1934–63, Lecturer, Architectural Association School
1948–51 Principal, Architectural Association School
1951–61 Architectural Correspondent, The Observer, London.
1960–61 Hoffman Wood Professor of Architecture, University of Leeds
1962 Visiting Professor, Syracuse University, New York[3]
Before moving to Wiltshire, he lived mainly in London.[4] He died from Motor Neurone disease.[2]
During the Second World War he was secretary of the Cambridge Peace Aims Group.[5]
He wrote five crime novels under the name of Robert Player, (using his mother's maiden name) mostly set in the Victorian and Edwardian periods and published from 1945 until the late 1970s. They contain a strong element of social satire, concerning the hypocrisy and corruptions of those periods.
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^Jordan, Robert Furneaux (1966). Victorian Architecture. Pelican Books.
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