Andrew Whalley

Andrew David Whalley OBE is an architect registered in the United Kingdom and United States of America.[1] His speciality is ecological design.[2] In 2011, he was named Deputy Chairman of the international architecture firm Grimshaw Architects. He became chairman in 2019.[3][4]

Early life

Whalley was born in Elizabeth, South Australia, the son of an electronics engineer at the Woomera Test Range. At an early age, he moved to Connecticut, United States of America where his father worked on the UGM-27 Polaris Project. He moved to Dollar, Scotland in 1970 and was educated at Dollar Academy. His architectural education started at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow, through 1983.[5] He worked there while attending the Diploma School at The Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. He graduated in 1986.

Career

Whalley joined Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, now Grimshaw Architects, 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 Royal Institute of British Architects and displayed large models and full size building components along with drawings and photographs.[6] Shortly after the exhibition, the firm was selected to design the Waterloo International railway station, which was awarded both the Royal Institute of British Architects President's Building of the Year Award[7] and the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award[8] in 1994.

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.[9][10]

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.[11]

In 1996 he worked with Tim Smit[12] and Jonathan Ball on a new Environmental Project that became The Eden Project in St Austell, Cornwall, UK.[3][13] The first phase of the project, The Visitor Center opened to the public in 2000 and the Biomes opened in 2001.[14] Andrew Whalley collaborated on a book with Sunday Times Architecture critic, Hugh Pearman, The Architecture of Eden, published by Transworld in 2003.[15]

In 2001 he established the Grimshaw Architects office in New York and in the same year won the international design competition for the Experimental, Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), New York.[16] In 2003, they won a second competition for the new Fulton Center.[17] 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 New York City Department of Design and Construction. Grimshaw was awarded the New York AIA Medal of Honor in 2014 for their commitment and contribution to the City Of New York.[18]

In 2003, Whalley was a presenter at the "Performative Architecture: Instrumentality Plus?" symposium at the University of Pennsylvania.[19]

Whalley was instrumental in Grimshaw's work on the Expo 2020 Sustainability Pavilion. For this project, Grimshaw assembled both a design team, underpinned by the engineering expertise of BuroHappold Engineering, as well as an Advisory Group Committee derived from some of the world's leading research institutions including NASA, California Academy of Sciences and Eden Project.[20]

As well as building architecture, Whalley has also designed interiors and furniture.[21]

He is a registered member of the AIA[22] and RIBA and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2006.[22] In April 2019 he was elected to the board of the British Architectural Library Trust.[22]

He was elected to the AIA College of Fellows for Design in 2019[23] and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from his alma mater, Glasgow School of Art.[24]

Whalley was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to architecture and environmental sustainability.[25]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Andrew Whalley New York License". New York State Professions. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  2. ^ Wylie, Erin (18 July 2014). "The Ecorium 'ecoplex' could make zoos as we know them obsolete". Lexus Magazine. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016.
  3. ^ a b European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture—Mies Van Der Rohe Award. Mies van der Rohe Foundation. 2003. p. 142.
  4. ^ Merrick, Jay (18 June 2015). "Fulton Centre Hub in Manhattan Named Building of the Year Thanks to Technique Which Channels Light Underground". The Independent.
  5. ^ "Mackintosh School of Architecture Notable Graduates". Glasgow School of Art. Archived from the original on 25 May 2014.
  6. ^ Shulman, Ken (April 2014). "Down to the Details". Metropolis Magazine. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015.
  7. ^ "Waterloo International Railway Station". E-Architect.co.uk. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  8. ^ "EUMiesAward". MiesArch.com. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  9. ^ New Scientist. Reed Business Information. 29 October 1988. pp. 39–. ISSN 0262-4079.
  10. ^ Wilkinson, Chris (22 October 2013). Supersheds: The Architecture of Long-Span, Large-Volume Buildings. Elsevier Science. pp. 100–. ISBN 978-1-4831-4506-8.
  11. ^ Kolarevic, Branko; Malkawi, Ali (8 July 2005). Performative Architecture. ISBN 9781135994020.
  12. ^ "Sir Tim Smit KBE". EdenProject.com.
  13. ^ Smit, Tim (31 August 2011). Eden. Transworld. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-1-4464-3670-7.
  14. ^ "Our Origins". EdenProject.com.
  15. ^ Pearman, Hugh; Whalley, Andrew (2003). The Architecture of Eden. ISBN 1903919150.
  16. ^ "EMPAC / Grimshaw". ArchDaily.com. 11 April 2011.
  17. ^ "Grimshaw's Fulton Center Welcomes First New York Subway Commuters". 12 November 2014.
  18. ^ "Grimshaw awarded AIA New York Medal of Honour". 24 April 2015.
  19. ^ Crosbie, Michael J. "Architectural Performances?". Architecture Week.
  20. ^ "Expo 2020 Dubai's Sustainability Pavilion". BIE-Paris.org. February 2020. Archived from the original on 27 September 2023.
  21. ^ "grimshaw architects collaborates with poltrona frau on elements". DesignBoom.com. 12 May 2014.
  22. ^ a b c "Featured Member Andrew Whalley". AIANY.org.
  23. ^ "Honorary Fellowship". aia.org. AIA. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  24. ^ "Eden Project Architect to Be Recognised at the Glasgow School of Art 2019 Graduation". GSAPress.Blogspot.com (Press release). Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  25. ^ "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N27.
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