Argent Architects Michael Argent Pembrokeshire, Wales

Michael Argent MA(Cantab) AA (Architectural Association) Dipl RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects - www.architecture.com). Trained at Cambridge University under Sir Lesley Martin, Colin St John Wilson & Peter Eisenman. Also on the staff were Lionel March (Land Use & Built Form) and Christopher Alexander (Pattern Language). He moved to the Architectural Association where Cedric Price, Peter Cook & Archigram, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster were prominent on the staff. He worked in London from 1968 to 1976, firstly on the Foundling Estate housing in Bloomsbury designed by Patrick Hodgkinson, (interesting for its stepped configuration) and then on the Barbican project by Chamberlain Powell & Bonn then Harpenden & Ashford sports centres and flats and offices in west London for Rice Roberts Architects. In 1976 he joined Dyfed County Architects Department until 1982 designing Bigyn School, Graig School additions and Langton Hall. He has worked in Pembrokeshire as a partner for Argent Architects since 1982.