Roy Fleetwood
Roy Fleetwood (* 1946 in London ) is a British architect and designer . He is director of the Office for Design Strategy in Cambridge , England.
Life
Fleetwood studied architecture in Liverpool from 1965 to 1971 and on a scholarship in Rome . From 1973 to 1983 he was a partner in the renowned architecture firm of Norman Foster in London and from 1983 to 1986 its representative in Hong Kong . The construction of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong, the Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts in Norwich and the Renault Center in Swindon were built under his responsibility . Fleetwood worked with companies such as Bulthaup , ERCO , Vitra and Hitachi u. a. together and made a name for himself as a product designer. He has received various design awards.
Fleetwood founded the "Office for Design Strategy" in Cambridge in 1986 and in 1988, with his partner Kenji Sugimura, the architecture firm Sugimura Fleetwood Architects and Engineers in Tokyo . He has also been a professor since 2004 and holds a chair in design at the Victoria University of Wellington (VIC) in Wellington , New Zealand . He is visiting professor at universities in Europe, America and Japan. In 2007 he was a member of the jury for the red dot design award: product design .
Awards
- Red dot design award
- iF Industry Forum Design , including iF Awards for design and innovation
- iF Ecology Design Award for solar powered lighting (for YKK, 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, Japan)
- Japan Environment Association Ecomark Award (for YKK, Japan)
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| SURNAME | Fleetwood, Roy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British architect and designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |