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Richard Paxton, who died on Monday at the age of 49, was an architect who practised what he preached. His career, and indeed his life, was carried out against a backdrop of constant change; houses and offices or houses/offices whose ceaseless state of flux reflected a restless enthusiasm for transformation and a boundless thirst for architectural experiment.
Having studied at Kingston, Richard worked for various big-name practices before settling at ABK. A commission for a home for author Douglas Adams (of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame) allowed him to set up Paxton Locher Architects with his wife, Heidi Locher, whom he met in his teens (a well-meaning aunt lured him to a party...