march was the first director of the centre for land use and built form studies, now the martin centre for architectural and urban studies, cambridge university. he held professorships in systems engineering at the university of waterloo, ontario; in design technology at the open university, milton keynes; and from 1984 in the graduate school of architecture and urban planning, ucla, where he was the chair in the period 1985–1991 and was professor emeritus in design and computation until his death.