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= Katherine Shonfield = Katherine Vaughan Williams (Shonfield) was an architect and writer, born August 22, 1954; died September 2, 2003. She was a founding member of Muf architecture/art from 1994.

She studied at Central London Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster) for the degree course (1979-82) and the diploma (1984-85). Between the two, in 1983 she studied under Dalibor Veseley and Peter Carl at Cambridge. After qualifying in 1985, she began teaching at South Bank Polytechnic (later South Bank University). She also taught at Kingston Polytechnic, the Polytechnic of Central London, and the Architectural Association. She was a regular columnist for Building Design and the Architect's Journal.

Published Works
In 2000, Shonfield authored 'Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the City' in which she showed how film and architecture are inter-related, and "tensions between new architecture and social change as they appeared in movies became one cornerstone of her interpretation of architecture." In 2001, she was a contributory author to the publication 'THIS IS WHAT WE DO: A Muf Manual' and authored the essay 'Premature Gratification and Other Pleasures'.