Katherine Shonfield

Shonfield was born in London in 1954, was brought up in Chelsea and attended St Paul's Girls' School. She was the youngest of the two children of Sir Andrew Shonfield, a socialist economist of some note, and Zuzanna, née Przeworska, a Polish–born historian and writer. Shonfield studied sociology at Kingston Polytechnic and after she graduated took a job in the planning department of Kensington & Chelsea Borough Council. Her upbringing was an important influence on her later work as an architect, with her strongly felt ideals being "largely the product of a highly cultivated, politically liberal and internationally orientated family". ==Architecture career==

In 1979 she decided to study for an architecture degree at the Polytechnic of Central London, subsequently studying for a diploma there between 1984 and 1985. In between studying for her degree and her diploma she trained under Dalibor Vesely and Peter Carl at Cambridge. After qualifying in 1985, Shonfield began teaching at South Bank Polytechnic and also taught at Kingston Polytechnic, the Polytechnic of Central London and at the Architectural Association. She remained at South Bank for over ten years and was a regular columnist for both Building Design and the ''Architects' Journal''. ==Writing career==

In 2000, Shonfield authored Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the City, in which she showed how film and architecture are inter-related, and discussed the tensions between architecture and social change as seen in movies which became a cornerstone of her interpretation of architecture. Bibliography Architecture • Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the City (Routledge, 2000) • At Home with Strangers: Working paper 8: Public Space and the New Urbanity (Comedia, 1998) Other • PG Wodehouse's Guide to Surviving Cancer (2003) ==Personal life==

Shonfield was married to Julian Vaughan Williams with whom she shared a son, Roman. While suffering from cancer she wrote a book entitled ''PG Wodehouse's Guide To Surviving Cancer''. == References ==