Andrew David Whalley is an architect registered in the United Kingdom and United States of America. His speciality is

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. In 2011, he was named Deputy Chairman of the international architecture firm

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. He became chairman in 2019. Andrew Whalley Photo

Early life

Whalley was born in

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, the son of an electronics engineer at the

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. At an early age, he moved to

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, United States of America where his father worked on the UGM-27 Polaris Project. He moved to

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, Scotland in 1970 and was educated at

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. His architectural education started at the

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, Glasgow, in 1980. He was taught in his final year by professor Robin Webster and he joined his practice Spence and Webster in 1983. He worked there while attending the Diploma School at The

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, London. He was taught by

Jan Kaplický Jan Kaplický (; ; 18 April 1937 – 14 January 2009) was a Neofuturistic Czech architect who spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom. He was the leading architect behind the innovative design office, Future Systems. He was b ...

and

Ron Herron Ronald James Herron () was an English architect and teacher. He is perhaps best known for his work with the seminal experimental architecture collective Archigram, which was formed in London in the early 1960s. Herron was the creator of one of ...

. He graduated in 1986.

Career

Whalley joined Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, now

, in 1986, immediately after completing his education. He worked with Jan Kaplicky on the firm's first exhibition and catalogue ''Practice Product and Process.'' The exhibition opened in January 1988 in the Florence Hall of the

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and displayed large models and full size building components along with drawings and photographs. Shortly after the exhibition, the firm was selected to design the

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, which was awarded both the

President's Building of the Year Award and the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture –

Mies van der Rohe Award The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award is a prize given biennially by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona,In 1990, Whalley, along with Fiona Galbraith and Chris McCarthy, designed a new type of roof structure which was featured in architectural magazines. It was included in their shortlisted entry in a contest for design of the Glasgow Eurodome, but was not the final selection. He designed a house in Dollar, Scotland with Fiona Galbraith for his parents that won a Scottish RIBA Award for Architecture in 1990. He followed by designing a modern house again with Fiona Galbraith for their own use in London, completed 2005. In 1996 he worked with Tim Smit and Jonathan Ball on a new Environmental Project that became The

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in St Cornwall, UK. The first phase of the project, The Visitor Center opened to the public in 2000 and the Biomes opened in 2001. Andrew Whalley collaborated on a book with Sunday Times Architecture critic, Hugh Pearman, The Architecture of Eden, published by Transworld in 2003. In 2001 he established the

office in New York and in the same year won the international design competition for the Experimental, Media and Performing Arts Center (

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), New York. In 2003, they won a second competition for the new

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. During his ten years as Partner-in-Charge of the New York Office, Whalley established Grimshaw as one of the eight architectural practices selected for major public projects in New York under Mayor Bloomberg's design excellence program with the

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. Grimshaw was awarded the New York AIA Medal of Honor in 2014 for their commitment and contribution to the City Of New York. In 2003, Whalley was a presenter at the "Performative Architecture: Instrumentality Plus?" symposium at the

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. Whalley was instrumental in Grimshaw's work on the

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Sustainability Pavilion. For this project, Grimshaw assembled both a design team, underpinned by the engineering expertise of

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, as well as an Advisory Group Committee derived from some of the world's leading research institutions including

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and

. As well as building architecture, Whalley has also designed interiors and furniture. He is a registered member of the AIA and RIBA and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2006. In April 2019 he was elected to the board of the British Architectural Library Trust. He was elected to the AIA College of Fellows for Design in 2019 and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from his alma mater,

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. Whalley was appointed

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(OBE) in the

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for services to architecture and

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References

External links

Grimshaw Architects web site
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Early life

Career

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