Ursula Bowyer, who has died aged 98, was an architect and heritage advocate whose career spanned postwar reconstruction, domestic modernism and community conservation. Working in close partnership with her husband Gordon Bowyer (1923-2019), she designed houses, housing and exhibition spaces, while also playing a central role in preserving the historic fabric of Greenwich and Blackheath.

She moved with ease between private practice, civic campaigning and small-scale residential work. As a foreign-born woman architect raising a family in mid-century Britain, she was a rarity in her field. Her early experience of displacement during the Second World War gave her a quiet resilience, which she carried into her life and work.

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