death_date death_place birth_place practice nationality birth_date article_title name alma_mater
16 january 2015 wellington , new zealand christchurch , new zealand athfield architects new zealand 15 july 1940 ian athfield
 sir ian athfield university of auckland
ian athfield

sir ian charles athfield -lrb- 15 july 1940 -- 16 january 2015 -rrb- was a new zealand architect .
he was born in christchurch and graduated from the university of auckland in 1963 with a diploma of architecture .
that same year he joined structon group architects , and he became a partner in 1965 .
in 1968 he was a principal partner in setting up athfield architects with ian dickson and graeme john boucher -lrb- manson -rrb- .
athfield died in 2015 due to complications from a routine procedure which resulted in pneumonia , at the wellington hospital , where he was being treated for prostate cancer .
