English architectural partnership formed in 1933 by Amyas Douglas Connell (b Eltham, Taranaki, New Zealand, 23 June 1901; d London, 19 April 1980), Basil Robert Ward (b Wellington, New Zealand, 22 July 1902; d Ambleside, Cumbria, 2 Aug 1976) and Colin Anderson Lucas (b London, 29 Dec 1906; d London, 25 Aug 1984). Connell and Ward were both articled pupils in New Zealand and travelled together in 1923; Ward later married Connell’s sister. They studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University of London; Connell won the Rome Scholarship in Architecture and Ward the Henry Jarvis Studentship (second prize Rome Scholarship) in 1926, resulting in prolonged study in Italy for them both. Despite his classical training, Connell was inspired by modernism and the work of Le Corbusier in particular, and in 1928 he designed High and Over, Amersham, Bucks, for Professor Bernard Ashmole, Director of the British School at Rome, where he had studied; this is regarded by many as the first significant house of the ...