Andrew Derbyshire Explained

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 knighted in 1986.

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.^{[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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Derbyshire. Ben. Andrew Derbyshire. Building Design. Building Design. 11 March 2016. Andrew Derbyshire.
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. Web site: Hopkirk. Elizabeth. Andrew Derbyshire (1923-2016). Building Design. Building Design. 11 March 2016. Building Design.
6. Book: Andrew Rosen. The Transformation of British Life 1950-2000: A Social History. 2003. Manchester University Press. 978-0-7190-6612-2. 136–8.
7. Book: Bridget Cherry. Nikolaus Pevsner. London 3: North West. 1 March 1991. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-09652-1. 359–360.
8. Web site: About the Civic Centre. London Borough of Hillingdon. 4 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161104204055/https://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/article/9268/About-the-Civic-Centre. 4 November 2016. dead.
9. http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Architects-Lives/021M-C0467X0077XX-0001V0 National Life Stories, 'Derbyshire, Andrew (1 of 23) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 2003