Obituary: Robert Elwall (14 January 1953-7 March 2012)

[Michael Pritchard]

Robert Elwall, Assistant director of the RIBA’s British Architectural Library, and the founder and curator of the RIBA Library Photographs Collection and RIBApix collapsed and died suddenly after a short illness. Robert had been continuing to work on various projects at RIBA.

Robert was a great writer of books and papers on photography and architecture in its broadest sense. A number of his articles are collected here: http://www.culture24.org.uk/am69854  He will be sorely missed. 

[Joe Low]

Very sad to hear the news of Robert Elwell's passing. He had an understanding & love of photography & architecture and was able to write about it with clarity and insight.

[Pam Roberts]

Very sad news.  Robert was a lovely, generous man and we had many long phone conversations over the years, putting the world, and our various archives, to rights.  Was about to contact him about some research I am doing on architectural photographer M.O. Dell, having read Robert's book.  Alas, too late.  He will be much missed.

[Helen Trompeteler]

So sad to learn of this news. I was delighted to meet him a few times over the years, and have admired his work at the RIBA and further afield for a long time.