JEREMY DIXON AA DIP(HONS) RIBA Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae Jeremy Dixon has been working as a principal in private practice since 1977, having graduated from the Architectural Association School in 1963. He won first prize with Edward Jones in 1972 for an international competition for Northamptonshire County Offices, He built a number of housing projects in London on sensitive infill sites, mainly in the Westminster planning area. He won the competition for a coffee shop at the Tate Gallery and subsequently designed the restaurant. In 1983 he was successful, in association with BDP, in an international selection process for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and was one of six architects invited to submit schemes for the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery. He is now in partnership again with Edward Jones. They are working on commissions for the Royal Opera House, an extension to the National Portrait Gallery and a new business school for Oxford University. Recently completed schemes include a study centre and student housing for Darwin College, Cambridge, student housing for the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, a new science building for Portsmouth University and a superstore for J Sainsbury Plc in Plymouth. The new galleries for the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds by the joint venture practice Jeremy Dixon.Edward Jones BDP opened in April 1993. Dixon and Jones' entry for an open international competition to design a bus station for Venice won first prize at the 1991 Venice Biennale, and has been the subject of exhibition entries. The practice has won RIBA Regional Awards for the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds in 1993, the Square and Round Residential Towers for the Robert Gordon University, 1994, the Study Centre for Darwin College, Cambridge 1994 and the superstore for J Sainsbury Plc, Plymouth in 1995. Jeremy Dixon has exhibited at the 1981 Venice Biennale, taught at the Architectural Association and the Royal College of Art, has been an RIBA external examiner and on various architectural juries. He lectures and teaches widely, and his work is regularly published and exhibited. |