Andrew Derbyshire

Sir Andrew George Derbyshire FRIBA (7 October 1923 – 3 March 2016) was a British architect.[1][2] 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 appointed (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.[3][4]

Other works included the Castle Market in Sheffield.[5] 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".[6][7][8]

National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/77) with Andrew Derbyshire in 2003 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.[9]

References
  1. Derbyshire, Ben. "Andrew Derbyshire". Building Design. Building Design. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  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. Joshua Mardell, ‘Learning from York’, Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal, vol. 22 (2013).
  4. 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)
  5. Hopkirk, Elizabeth. "Andrew Derbyshire (1923-2016)". Building Design. Building Design. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  6. Andrew Rosen (2003). The Transformation of British Life 1950-2000: A Social History. Manchester University Press. pp. 136–8. ISBN 978-0-7190-6612-2.
  7. Bridget Cherry; Nikolaus Pevsner (1 March 1991). London 3: North West. Yale University Press. pp. 359–360. ISBN 978-0-300-09652-1.
  8. "About the Civic Centre". London Borough of Hillingdon. Archived from the original on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  9. 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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