Prof Edward Jones, CBE's Biography
- Forename(s)
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Edward David Brynmor
- Sex
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Male
- Decorations
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CBE (2011)
- Date of Birth
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20/10/1939
- Foretitle(s)
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Prof
- Surname
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JONES
- Style
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Prof Edward Jones, CBE
- Recreations
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cooking, walking, drawing, looking out of the window, Staffordshire Bull Terriers
Prof Edward Jones, CBE's Professional Career
- Career
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architect; princ in private practice 1973-89, in partnership with Jeremy Dixon 1989-2003, Dixon Jones Ltd 2003-; cmmns incl: Royal Opera House 1983-99, Henry Moore Fndn Perry Green 1989-, Henry Moore Inst Leeds 1989-93, Darwin Coll Cambridge 1989-93, Robert Gordon Univ Aberdeen 1991-93, superstore for J Sainsbury plc Plymouth, Univ of Portsmouth 1993, housing New Delhi, Nat Portrait Gallery London 1994-2000, Saïd Business Sch Univ of Oxford 1996-2001, second phase Centre for Executive Educn 2007-12; master planners: Somerset House 1998-2001, Nat Gallery 1998-2006, Kensington and Chelsea Coll 2000-11, Chelsea apartments 2000-11, Magna Carta project Salisbury Cathedral 2001, Student Centre Queen's Univ Belfast 2001-, Panoptican building UCL 2001-, offices Kings Cross 2002, Portrait Gall of Canada 2003-, house in Provence 2003, Exhibition Road Project 2004, offices Regents Palace 2005, 5/6 St James's Square 2006, Chelsea Barracks 2009-; tutor AA, Poly of Central London and UC Dublin 1968-72, sr tutor RCA Sch of Environmental Design 1973-83, adjunct prof Univ of Toronto 1983-89 (visiting prof 1973-82); visiting prof: UC Dublin 1971-73, Cornell, Rice, Harvard, Yale, Princeton Univs USA and Syracuse (NY-based) Univ in Florence 1973-; RIBA external examiner: AA 1985, Kingston Univ, Univ of Portsmouth and Heriot-Watt Univ 1990-93, Univ of Wales 1994-97, Caribbean Sch of Arch 1997-2000, MacKintosh Sch Glasgow 2007-10; RIBA: memb President's Gold Medal Ctee 1993 and 1994, memb Stirling Prize Ctee 2003-08; memb jury for architectural competition: Laban Dance Centre Deptford 1998, Diana, Princess of Wales Meml Fountain London 2002, Barbara Hepworth Gallery Wakefield 2002, Parliamentary building Ottawa 2003, Univ Boulevard competition Univ of Br Columbia 2005, Victoria Embankment Competition 2005; chm Line of Site Competition 2009; memb Cncl AA 1993-99 (vice-pres 1995-97), memb Design Review Panel for 2012 Olympic Games 2006-; Hon DLitt Univ of Portsmouth 2001, hon fell Univ of Wales Cardiff 2001, hon prof Univ of Wales 2003; tstee Portsmouth Naval Base Property Tst 2005-08; fell RIAI 2011, RIBA, RAIC; Awards first prize: Northampton County Offices 1973, Mississauga City Hall Canada 1982 (Govr General's Award for Architecture 1988), Bus Station Venice 1990, Venice Biennale 1991
Prof Edward Jones, CBE's Publications
- Books and Publications
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A Guide to the Architecture of London (with Christopher Woodward, 1983, 4 edn 2009), Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones: Buildings and Projects 1959-2002; contrib to architectural jls
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