After Portsmouth, Michael moved to London and the Architectural Association (AA) and while on Scholarship, he was selected as one of the UK's delegates to CIAM 10 Conference in Provence, led by the architect Maxwell Fry. After the AA and as a fluent French speaker, he was selected to act as project architect for the British Pavilions at Brussels World Expo 1958, working with designers Felix Samuely, Howard Lobb, Edward Mills, Sir Hugh Casson and James Gardner. Blower spent a short period in the late 1950s working at an architectural practice in Minneapolis (US), called Willard Thorsen. In the early 1960s he was an associate at Guildford architects, Scott Brownrigg &amp; Turner, where he assisted the completion of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford among other projects. In 1964 he joined Leonard Stedman as a partner at AJ &amp; LR Stedman, which later took the name of Stedman &amp; Blower.