Eric Alfred Scholefield Houfe [also known as E.A.S. Houfe] was born in Pulloxhill Bedfordshire, England on 16 February 1911 and commenced practice as an architect in the 1930s.
In 1945 with his father-in-law Albert Edward Richardson (1880-1964) he formed the architectural partnership Richardson & Houfe. Notable among their projects was Bracken House in London [the old Financial Times building] which was completed in 1958. This became the first post-war building to be listed thus preventing its redevelopment.
A photograph and a description of three-bedroom houses designed by Professor Richardson and E.A.S. Houfe and constructed by J.M. Hill & Sons for Ampthill District Council in Bedfordshire is illustrated in Decorative Art vol. 38, 1943-48 (pp. 14-15)
Houfe was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1936 and had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) by the early 1950s.
His address was given as 41 Russell Square, London in 1939. He died in Ampthill, Bedfordshire on 12 December 1993.