David Shalev was born in Jerusalem in 1934 and trained in Haifa, in a school he later described as an outpost of the Bauhaus set down beside an ancient landscape. He moved to London and met Eldred Evans in 1963; from 1964 until 2008 they lived and worked together as Evans & Shalev, producing some hundred and fifty projects credited to both partners. Newport High School, won in open competition in 1967, gave the practice its first major public commission; the Crown Courts at Truro and the Quincentenary Library at Jesus College, Cambridge, followed, and Tate St Ives, built into a cliff on the site of a demolished gasholder, became its best-known work. Shalev also taught at the Architectural Association and later at Bath, and died in London in January 2018.
