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Ben Derbyshire
Chair

Dip Arch Cantab PPRIBA FRSA HonAIA

 

Email Ben
@benjamin_derbyshire

Ben is our non-executive Chair, he has a long association with the practice, having first joined as a student in 1973, he became a partner in 1986. Ben led the management buyout in 2013 which led to our establishment as an LLP. Since then the practice has grown five-fold and includes teams in four studios across the UK.

He is a Commissioner of Historic England. He serves on the London Advisory Committee, High Streets Heritage Action Zone Board and is chair of the Historic Places Panel.

Ben is President of the London Forum of Amenity and Civic Societies, is a member of the NHBC Council and sits on the advisory board of proptech firm, Chimni.

He was President of RIBA from 2017 – 2019 where he oversaw fundamental change in the financing and governance of the institute and the instigation of policies in relation to climate action, professional competence and codes of conduct.

Ben has published widely in research on housing, for example relating to the performance rating of homes and strategies for suburban intensification through collective action of neighbours, known as Supurbia.  He has summarised his long career as a housing designer in a book, Home Truths, published by Hatch Editions and available from RIBA Books in January 2023, the book serves as a primer for anyone with an interest in the planning and design of sustainable places.

 

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Ben Derbyshire launches Home Truths

26.01.23

20/50. HTA at 50 – Superdensity I & II 2007 – 2015

07.06.19

18/50. HTA at 50 – Greenwich Millennium Village 1997 – 2005

24.05.19

13/50. HTA at 50 – Placemaking

19.04.19

09/50. HTA at 50 – Manchester & Blandford Street – 1988 – 2003

15.03.19

8/50. HTA at 50 – Northwood Tower – 1988 – 1991

08.03.19

07/50. HTA at 50 – Winterton House – 1992 – 1999

28.02.19

4/50. HTA at 50 – Newquay House 1986 – 1994

05.02.19

2/50. HTA at 50 – Lea View House 1980-1985

22.01.19

1/50. HTA at 50 – Thames Tunnel Mills 1977-1983

14.01.19

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