Andrew Derbyshire

{{Short description|British architect}}

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Sir Andrew George Derbyshire FRIBA (7 October 1923 – 3 March 2016) was a British architect.{{cite web|last1=Derbyshire|first1=Ben|title=Andrew Derbyshire|url=http://www.bdonline.co.uk/Journals/2016/03/08/u/w/p/Andrew-Derbyshire---by-Ben-Derbyshire.doc|website=Building Design|accessdate=11 March 2016|ref=Andrew Derbyshire}}‘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 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U13537 accessed 17 May 2014] 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.{{London Gazette|issue=50551|page=1|supp=y|date=13 June 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.Joshua Mardell, ‘Learning from York’, Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal, vol. 22 (2013).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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Other works included the Castle Market in Sheffield.{{cite web|last1=Hopkirk|first1=Elizabeth|title=Andrew Derbyshire (1923-2016)|url=http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/andrew-derbyshire-(1923-2016)/5080540.article|website=Building Design|accessdate=11 March 2016|ref=Building Design}} 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".{{cite book|author=Andrew Rosen|title=The Transformation of British Life 1950-2000: A Social History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=grRgpCRhvwgC&pg=PA136|year=2003|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-6612-2|pages=136–8}}{{cite book|author1=Bridget Cherry|author2=Nikolaus Pevsner|title=London 3: North West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AuvCfuvUy-0C&pg=PA359|date=1 March 1991|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-09652-1|pages=359–360}}{{cite web|title=About the Civic Centre|url=https://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/article/9268/About-the-Civic-Centre|publisher=London Borough of Hillingdon|accessdate=4 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104204055/https://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/article/9268/About-the-Civic-Centre|archive-date=4 November 2016|url-status=dead}}

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.[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]. Retrieved 10 April 2018