My mother, Elizabeth Foulkes, who has died aged 98, was an architect who worked on public buildings and landscape projects and helped define standards for architects in the UK.
Elizabeth was born in Abertillery, Monmouthshire, to Allan Johnson, who worked for the Co-op insurance society, and Williamina (nee Innes), known as Billy, a councillor and magistrate, and attended Wimbledon high school after the family moved to London. She started her architectural training at Wimbledon School of Art (now part of the University of the Arts London) in 1941, and took her intermediate exam in 1945, just as the second world war came to an end and a new dawn for architecture arrived.
