Sir Andrew George Derbyshire

FRIBA The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three suppl ...

(7 October 1923 – 3 March 2016) was a British

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. He was a senior partner, later Chairman, and following retirement, President, of the architectural practice Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall (

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) and Partners, under the original named-partner architects. He was knighted 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. Other works included the

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. His

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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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conducted an oral history interview (C467/77) with Andrew Derbyshire in 2003 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Derbyshire, Andrew 1923 births 2016 deaths Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Architects from London Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects Knights Bachelor Alumni of the Architectural Association School of Architecture People associated with the University of York