Roy Fleetwood

Great Britain
New Zealand

Director of the Office for Design Strategy in Cambridge and director of the architecture offices Sugimura Fleetwood Architects and Engineers in Tokyo.
Professor Roy Fleetwood, born 1946 in London, studied architecture in Liverpool and Rome. Prior to founding the Office for Design Strategy in Cambridge, England, in 1986 and being appointed director of Sugimura Fleetwood Architects and Engineers in Tokyo in 1988, he was Norman Foster’s associate in London from 1973 to 1983 and then managing director of Foster Associates Architects and Engineers in Hong Kong. He managed numerous architectural projects, including the construction of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich and the Renault Centre in Swindon.

He has developed numerous industrial projects across the globe, including architectural works in Japan for YKK AP, and compiled numerous design studies for companies like Bulthaup, Erco, Vitra and Hitachi. Fleetwood has received numerous international awards, e.g. in the iF design award, in the red dot design award, the Minerva Award from the Chartered Society of Designers in England, the G-Mark award from the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organisation and the German Federal Prize for Product Design from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs. Roy Fleetwood has been a professor since 2004, holding the chair of design at Victoria University of Wellington (VIC) in New Zealand, and has lectured as a guest professor at universities in Europe, America and Japan.