Robert Furneaux Jordan

Who was Robert Furneaux Jordan?

Robert Furneaux Jordan was an English architect, architectural critic and novelist. Jordan was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Birmingham School of Art, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. He married Eira Furneaux Jordan in 1965. He worked as an architect from 1928 to 1961, after which he became an academic, broadcaster and lecturer, writing many books on architecture.

Other positions occupied were:

1934-63, Lecturer at the Architectural Association School

1948-51 Principal, Architectural Association School

1951-61 Architectural Correspondent, The Observer, London.

1961-62 Hoffman Wood Professor of Architecture, University of Leeds

1962-? Visiting Professor, Syracuse University, New York

He wrote five crime novels under the name of Robert Player, mostly set in the Victorian and Edwardian periods and published from 1945 until the late 1970s. They contain a strong element of social satire, concerning the hypocrisy and corruptions of those periods.