Eldred Evans was born in London to the painter Merlyn Evans and grew up in South Africa. She returned to study at the Architectural Association and then spent a year at Yale alongside Norman Foster and Richard Rogers. In 1963 she met the Israeli architect David Shalev; from 1964 until 2008 they lived and worked together, and the practice of Evans & Shalev produced some hundred and fifty projects under both their names. Their reputation rests on a small number of quietly monumental public buildings in the west of England — Truro Crown Courts, the Quincentenary Library at Jesus College, Cambridge, and above all Tate St Ives, where a rendered drum set into the cliff turns the plan of a demolished gasholder into a gallery. She was appointed OBE and died in 2022.
