Peter Tábori (born 1940) is a Hungarian-born British architect. He trained in London and is best known for the housing schemes he designed for the London Borough of Camden under Sydney Cook in the 1960s and 1970s, especially Highgate New Town (1968–1979). Education and early career Tábori was born in Hungary in 1940 and came to Britain in 1956, after being imprisoned for six months following the Russian invasion of 1956. In Britain he finished his schooling and worked for a year for the architect Cecil Epril (1897–1982) before starting his architecture training at Regent Street Polytechnic, London (1958). At the end of his first year Tábori won a travel scholarship, which he used to travel in northern Italy, visiting Siena, Florence and Pisa. At the end of his second year at the suggestion of James Stirling he took a year's break and applied to fellow Hungarian Ernö Goldfinger, where he worked for a year. Tábori returned to Regent Street and then went back to Goldfinger for his official 'year out'. Goldfinger was a lasting influence on Tábori's interest in pre-modernist buildings and form. Tábori returned to Regent Street for his fourth year (1963–64) where tutor Richard Rogers, freshly returned from the US, stimulated Tábori's interest in housing. Inspired by Rogers' enthusiasm for mass production, Tábori, for his fifth year thesis, decided to explore industrialised housing typologies. By this stage, Rogers had given up teaching, to concentrate on Team 4, but informally he continued to mentor Tábori and recommended he should incorporate some real sites and briefs. Tábori contacted Hampstead (the forerunner of Camden) and was sent information on three sites, including Highgate New Town. His thesis looked at vertical facades with hung balconies and was not the origin of his stepped-section design for Highgate New Town. Italian-born Rogers encouraged Tábori to draw on his experience from visiting Italy's hill towns, which featured terraces and external stairs. Tábori was also influenced by Rogers’ interest in environmental design, which became evident at Highgate New Town – one of the first times that ‘ecological’ principles were applied to British council housing. Later career The external examiner for Tábori's fifth-year thesis was Denys Lasdun, who promptly offered Tábori a position in his office. Tábori stayed with Denys Lasdun & Partners for three years (1965–68), working on the University of East Anglia, including the terraced ziggurat-like halls of residence and spending five months on