Sir Andrew Derbyshire
Sir Andrew George Derbyshire FRIBA (7 October 1923 – 3 March 2016) was a British architect. He was a senior partner, later chairman, and following retirement, President, of the architectural practice Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall (RMJM) and Partners, under the original named-partner architects. He was knighted in 1986.
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Sir Andrew Derbyshire
Conrad Roth · Hillingdon Civic Centre, exterior 3 · CC BY 2.0
- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 2016
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- architect
- Education
- Queens' College
- Honours
- Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects · Knight Bachelor
- Languages
- English
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Sir Andrew George Derbyshire FRIBA (7 October 1923 – 3 March 2016) was a British architect. He was a senior partner, later chairman, and following retirement, President, of the architectural practice Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall (RMJM) and Partners, under the original named-partner architects. He was knighted in 1986.
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Derbyshire studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, and at the Architectural Association, London, before realising, as principal architect with RMJM, the master-planning and designing of the University of York campus in Heslington (from 1962), said to be his chef d'oeuvre. • Illustration — Hillingdon Civic Centre by Derbyshire Other works included the Castle Market in Sheffield. His Hillingdon Civic Centre in a neo-vernacular style made extensive use of brick and tile, to pay homage to traditional homely brick architecture of nearby buildings and suburban developments that were "indigenous to the borough".
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1923
Sir Andrew Derbyshire was born on 7 October 1923.
2016
Sir Andrew Derbyshire died on 3 March 2016.
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- 1.Derbyshire, Ben. Andrew Derbyshire. Building Design.
- 2.‘DERBYSHIRE, Sir Andrew (George)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2013; online edn, Dec 2013 accessed 17 May 2014
- 3.50551. 13 June 1986.
- 4.Joshua Mardell, ‘Learning from York’, Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal, vol. 22 (2013).
- 5.Joshua Mardell, 'The CIAM Charter of Habitat: "Inter-relationships" and "scales of association" in the work of British architects, 1950-1970', MPhil. thesis, University of Cambridge (2012)
- 6.Hopkirk, Elizabeth. Andrew Derbyshire (1923-2016). Building Design.
- 7.Andrew Rosen. The Transformation of British Life 1950-2000: A Social History. Manchester University Press. 136–8. 2003. 978-0-7190-6612-2.
- 8.Yale University Press. London 3: North West. 359–360. 1 March 1991. 978-0-300-09652-1.
- 9.London Borough of Hillingdon. About the Civic Centre.
- 10.National Life Stories, 'Derbyshire, Andrew (1 of 23) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 2003. Retrieved 10 April 2018
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Sir Andrew Derbyshire is recorded with the occupation architect. Recorded as having received Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and Knight Bachelor.
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