John A. H. Lewis architectural drawings and associated records.

John Lewis was born on 29 September 1941 in Palmerston North. He was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School and then completed his Bachelor and Master of Architecture degrees at the University of Auckland in the 1960s. His MArch thesis is titled Leisure housing in New Zealand.

He received New Zealand Institute of Architecture (NZIA) Auckland branch awards for his own home on Gilletta Road, Mt Roskill (1973) and a new home on a sub-divided section on Disraeli Street, Mt Eden (1984). Other significant projects include the Blockhouse Bay Community Centre and Ngaire Avenue Chapel, Epsom.

Lewis‘s designs were often notable for their sympathetic integration with the surrounding natural environment. He was a committed conservationist and former president of the Waitakere Ranges Protection Society.

He also combined his architectural practice with completing a theology doctorate at the University of Otago. His 2009 doctoral thesis, The influence on medieval church architecture of love for God, was published by Routledge in 2018 as The Architecture of Medieval Churches: Theology of Love in Practice.

Lewis died on 30 June 2018 in Auckland aged 76.