Andrew Derbyshire

Sir Andrew George Derbyshire FRIBA (born 7 Oct. 1923) is a British architect.[1] 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 (Knight Bachelor) in 1986. Derbyshire had taken degrees at Queens' College, University of 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.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ ‘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
  2. ↑ Joshua Mardell, ‘Learning from York’, Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal, vol. 22 (2013).
  3. ↑ 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)
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