Spencer de Gery
Spencer de Grey - Head of Design, Foster + Partners.
Spencer de Grey joined Foster Associates in 1973, and in 1979 he set up the Foster Associates' Hong Kong office, to work on the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. In 1981 he was director in charge of Stansted Airport, which he saw through to completion in 1991. During this period, he also worked on the BBC Radio Centre, Langham Place, and was responsible for the Sackler Galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts, both in London.
Since his partnership in 1991, he has overseen a wide range of projects, including the Commerzbank Headquarters in Frankfurt, the Law Faculty at Cambridge University, the Great Court at the British Museum, the Great Glasshouse at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, the redevelopment of Dresden Station, and The Sage (Music Centre) Gateshead. He is also responsible for a number of projects in the USA including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the competition-winning scheme for the National Portrait Gallery courtyard at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. Recent competition wins include the masterplan for Slussen, Stockholm.
Spencer studied architecture at Cambridge University under Sir Leslie Martin, and now lectures widely. He is architectural advisor for the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, Chairman of the Building Centre Trust and Chairman of the Cambridge University School of Architecture Advisory Board. He was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1997 and was elected a Royal Academician in December 2008. Now Senior Executive, he has assumed a broader role in the office and shares overall design responsibility for all projects as joint Head of Design.
Spencer de Grey is speaking in the session Powering the City: Innovations in Energy
