Andrew Whalley

[3][4] 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.

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.

[9][10] He designed a house in Dollar, Scotland with Fiona Galbraith for his parents that won a Scottish RIBA Award for Architecture in 1990.

For this project, Grimshaw assembled both a design team, underpinned by the engineering expertise of BuroHappold Engineering, as well as an Advisory Group Committee derived from some of the world's leading research institutions including NASA, California Academy of Sciences and Eden Project.

[23] He was elected to the AIA College of Fellows for Design in 2019[24] and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from his alma mater, Glasgow School of Art.

[25] Whalley was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to architecture and environmental sustainability.