Felix James Samuely was a Structural engineer

Structural engineer

Structural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants...

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Born in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, he immigrated to Britain

United Kingdom

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 in 1933. Worked with Erich Mendelsohn

Erich Mendelsohn

Erich Mendelsohn was a Jewish German architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas.-Early life:...

 on the De la Warr Pavilion

The De La Warr Pavilion

The De La Warr Pavilion is an International Style building constructed in 1935 and designed by the architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff; considered by some to be in an Art Deco style. Some claim it to be the first major Modernist public building in Britain, although in fact it was...

, Bexhill-on-Sea

Bexhill-on-Sea

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 (1936), the British Pavilion for the Brussels World’s Fair (1958)  and on various parts of the Festival of Britain

Festival of Britain

The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition in Britain in the summer of 1951. It was organised by the government to give Britons a feeling of recovery in the aftermath of war and to promote good quality design in the rebuilding of British towns and cities. The Festival's centrepiece was in...

. Published MARS

MARS Group

The Modern Architectural Research Group, or MARS Group, was a British architectural think tank founded in 1933 by several prominent architects and architectural critics of the time involved in the British modernist movement...

 plan for London with Arthur Korn

Arthur Korn (architect)

Arthur Korn was a German Jewish architect and urban planner who was a proponent of modernism in Germany and the UK.-Life and career:...

 in 1942. He worked with George Grenfell Baines

George Grenfell Baines

Professor Sir George Grenfell-Baines OBE DL was an English architect and town planner. Born in Preston, as George Baines, his family’s humble circumstances forced him to start work at the age of fourteen. Both George and his younger brother, Richard , were prodigiously gifted mathematicians and...

 on a number of projects employing the mullion wall

Mullion wall

A mullion wall is a structural system in which the load of the floor slab is taken by prefabricated panels around the perimeter. Visually the effect is similar to the stone mullioned windows of Perpendicular Gothic or Elizabethan architecture....

 concept.

Samuely died in the London Clinic, 20 Devonshire Place, London, following a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

, leaving his wife and his mother, and was cremated at Golders Green crematorium in Middlesex.

Sources

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (includes photo)