Prof. Edward Jones,
CBERIBA (Edward David Brynmor Jones) is an English
architect, born in
St Albans 20 October 1939. He is married to Canadian architect Margot Griffin.[1][2]
Career
After schooling at
Haileybury, Jones trained at the
Architectural Association, where he met his future architectural partner Jeremy Dixon. They formed an informal practice in the mid sixties, which Peter Cook referred to as "The Grunt Group"[3] to promote the
modernist agenda.[4]
He was in private practice from 1973 to 1989 in London and in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1989 he co-founded the architectural practice Jeremy Dixon Edward Jones with Jeremy Dixon, called
Dixon Jones since 2003.[5] In 1973 the pair came to the attention of the national press when their "Great Pyramid" competition winning scheme[6] for
Northamptonshire County Hall was exhibited in London.[7]
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/98) with Edward Jones in 2011 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.[10]