Roy Fleetwood (born 1946 in
London
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) is a British
architect
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and
designer.
He is director of the ''Office for Design Strategy'' in
Cambridge
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, England.
Life
From 1965 to 1971, Fleetwood studied Architecture in
Liverpool
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and a scholarship in
Rome
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. He was a partner in the architectural firm of
Norman Foster in London from 1973 to 1983, and was a representative in
Hong Kong
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from 1983 to 1986. His responsibility was the construction of the
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich and the Renault Centre in Swindon. Fleetwood has worked worldwide with companies such as
Bulthaup
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,
ERCO,
Vitra and
Hitachi
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among others and made his name as a product designer. He received a variety of design awards.
Fleetwood founded the "Office for Design Strategy" in Cambridge in 1986 and, with his partner
Kenji Sugimura
is a Japanese architect and patent attorney. He is Principal Patent Attorney of Sugimura & Partners.
Early life
Sugimura was born in Tokyo, in 1953 as a grandson of Nobuchika Sugimura, the founder of Sugimura International Patent and Trademar ...
, the architectural firm
Sugimura Fleetwood Architects and Engineers in
Tokyo
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in 1988. Since 2004 he is also a professor and holds a chair of design at the Victoria University of Wellington (VIC) in
Wellington
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,
New Zealand
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. He is a visiting professor at universities in Europe, USA and Japan. In 2007 he was a member of the jury of the red dot design award: product design.
Awards
* Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen
* Industrie Forum Hannover, including iF awards for design and innovation
* iF Ecology Design Award for the solar-powered lighting (for
YKK Manufacturing and Engineering Centre,
Namerikawa, Japan)
* Minerva Award from the Chartered Society of Designers in England (for Erco, Germany)
* Federal Product Design Award of the German Federal Ministry of Economics (for Erco, Germany)
* G-Mark Award from the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (for YKK Manufacturing and Engineering Centre, Japan)
* Ecomark Award from the Japan Environment Association (for YKK Manufacturing and Engineering Centre, Japan)
References
External links
Official website*
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1946 births
20th-century English architects
Architects from London
British designers
Living people