Robert Player was the pen-name of Robert Furneaux Jordan, an English architect (1905-1978). 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 and worked as an architect from 1928 to 1961, after which he became an academic and lecturer, writing many books on architecture. Wikipedia
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