MALCOLM QUANTRILL studied architecture at the universities of Liverpool and Pennsylvania, and received his doctorate in urbanism from the Technical University of Wroclaw. He is a former Director of the Architectural Association, London, and Dean of the School of Environmental Design in the University of North London. Since 1986 he has been the Distinguished Professor of Architecture at Texas A&M University. He began studying modern Finnish architecture in 1959 and Juha Leiviskä and the continuity of Finnish modern architecture is his sixth book on this subject.