Architecture historian, England (became Canadian citizen 1962) Peter Collins was one of the leading architectural historians of his generation and a doyen of the English-language historians and theorists of 20th-century architecture. Born in Leeds in Yorkshire in 1920, his architectural studies at Leeds College of Art began in 1936 (diploma in architecture in 1948) but were interrupted by seven years in the British Entries A–F 521 army, serving in the Yorkshire Hussars; as an intelligence officer in the Middle East and Italy; and finally as captain, General Staff at the War Office, London. On graduation, he went to Switzerland and France to work on the design of reinforced-concrete structures, including working on Auguste Perret’s reconstruction of Le Havre. In 1951 he returned to England to lecture in architecture at Manchester and, later, to begin graduate work there under Professor Cordingly. His Master of Arts thesis, “The Development of Architectural Theory in France in the Mid-Ei...