Spencer de Grey becomes visiting Professor of Design

The eminent architect Spencer de Grey, CBE, is to take up a five year visiting Professorship in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. De Grey (pictured) is a senior partner and head of design at the leading London architecture firm, Foster and Partners, and is also a Royal Academician in the field. In more than 40 years as a practising architect, he has overseen projects including Stansted Airport, the Great Court at the British Museum, and the Law Faculty at the University of Cambridge itself. He has already been working since October 2009 as a distinguished visiting architect within the Department, from which he also graduated in 1969. As the Department's first Visiting Professor of Design he will work with students in a series of workshops and bring his international experience to bear on current design research issues through a number of special lectures. As a student at Cambridge, de Grey studied under Sir Leslie Martin, a leading purveyor of the International Style that defined architecture in the early to mid 20th century. His own early career involved a number of projects in the education sector.