Francis Cuthbert Duffy CBE FRIBA (born 3 September 1940[1]) is a British architect, a founder of DEGW, the international architectural and design practice best known for office design and workplace strategy and, more recently for advanced thinking on the programming of educational and arts facilities.
[citation needed] His doctoral research at Princeton was focused on the mapping the relationship between organisational structure and office layouts.
In the 1970s, he was one of the pioneers who introduced North American practice in Space Planning and Facility management into Europe.
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/103) with Francis Duffy in 2013 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.
As a consultant specialising in Workplace Strategy for almost 40 years, Duffy has worked internationally for a wide variety of corporate and government clients.