Andrew Whalley

Andrew Whalley is an architect registered in the United Kingdom and United States of America. His specialty is ecological design. In 2015, he was Deputy Chairman of the international Grimshaw Architects.

Whalley was born in Elizabeth, South Australia, the son of an electronics engineer at the Woomera Test Range. At an early age he moved to Connecticut, United States of America where his father worked on the UGM-27 Polaris Project. He moved to Dollar, Scotland in 1970 and was educated at Dollar Academy. His architectural education started at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow, in 1980. He was taught in his final year by professor Robin Webster and he joined his practice Spence and Webster in 1983. He worked there until 1986, when he left to attend the Diploma School at The Architectural Association School of Architecture, London.

Whalley joined Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, now Grimshaw Architects, in 1986, immediately after completing his education. He worked with Jan Kaplicky on the firm's first exhibition and catalogue Practice Product and Process. The exhibition opened in January 1988 in the Florence Hall of the Royal Institute of British Architects and displayed large models and full size building components along with drawings and photographs. Shortly after the exhibition, the firm was selected to design the Waterloo International railway station, which was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects President's Building of the Year Award in 1994.

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