Prof. Edward Jones,

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(Edward David Brynmor Jones) is an English

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, born in

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20 October 1939. He is married to Canadian architect Margot Griffin.

Career

After schooling at Haileybury Jones trained at the

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where he met his future architectural partner Jeremy Dixon. They formed an informal practice in the mid sixties, which Peter Cook referred to as "The Grunt Group" to promote the

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agenda. He has been professor of architecture in Europe and North America including

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, the

, and Universities of

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. He was in private practice from 1973 to 1989 in London and in

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, Canada. In 1989 he co-founded the architectural practice Jeremy Dixon. Edward Jones with Jeremy Dixon, called

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since 2003. In 1973 the pair came to the attention of the national press when their "Great Pyramid" competition winning scheme for

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County Hall was exhibited in London. In 2000, ''The Observer'' listed two of his practice's London buildings in the Top 10 Buildings of the Year: the National Portrait Gallery and the

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. From 2002 to 2010 he was honorary professor at

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. In 2001 he received an Honorary Doctorate from

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, and an Honorary Fellowship from

, and in December 2010 he received a

for services to architecture.

National Life Stories National Life Stories is an independent charitable trust and limited company (registered as the ‘National Life Story Collection’) based within the British Library Oral History section, whose key focus and expertise is oral history fieldwork. S ...

conducted an oral history interview (C467/98) with Edward Jones in 2011 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.National Life Stories, 'Jones, Edward (1 of 11) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 2011
Retrieved 10 April 2018

Major projects

Mississauga Civic Centre The Mississauga Civic Centre is the seat of local government of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The 37,280 square metre complex is a prominent example of postmodern architecture in Canada, finished in 1987 by Jones and Kirkland. It stands at 92 metr ...

, Canada (1987) * Darwin College Study Centre,

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(1993) * National Portrait Gallery, London (2000) *

, London (1999) *Somerset House Masterplan, London (2001) *

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, Oxford (2001) *Villa Jones, France (2005) *

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, London (2008) *Exhibition Road Masterplan (2011) *Quadrant 3 for The Crown Estate – London 2006 – 2011 *Masterplan for Chelsea Barracks – London 2010 - 2012 *Olympic Way Steps, Wembley Park, London 2016 - 2021

Publications

* Edward Jones and Christopher Woodward, ''A Guide to the Architecture of London'' (Weidenfeld and Nicolson) 1983, 4th edition 2009 ''The Times'', Saturday, 29 June 1985; p. 29; Issue 62177. * DIXON JONES, Right Angle Publishing Ltd, 2002.

References

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