My father, Tim Wallis, who has died aged 86, was a senior architect for Avon county and Bristol city councils. He specialised first in public housing but spent the majority of his career designing schools and colleges. Some of his better known buildings are the Michael Tippett Centre at Bath Spa University, and the Ralph Allen Building at Bath College.Tim studied architecture at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in the late 1950s, learning under Colin St John Wilson. There Tim explored painting, art and graphics. He was one of the Cambridge Four, which had a show in 1960, the year of his graduation, at London’s New Vision Centre gallery, curated by Robert Freeman (who later found fame photographing the Beatles). Continue reading...