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Derek John Walker (15 June 1929 – 11 May 2015) was a British architect primarily associated with urban planning and leisure facilities architecture through his firm Derek Walker Associates. ==Career== After completing his national service, Walker went on to study architecture at Leeds Art School, it was here he met his first wife Jill Messenger. He then studied planning at the University of Pennsylvania before returning to the UK in 1960 to set up an architectural practice in Leeds. From 1970 to 1976, Walker was Chief Architect and planner of the new town Milton Keynes, and ran the architecture course at Royal College of Art between 1984 to 1990. He recruited a team and over seven years produced a landscaping strategy for the 'new city', eleven village plans, the structure for the programme for producing 3000 houses per year with supporting community, leisure, retail and sporting and cultural facilities. Amongst many buildings possibly the most celebrated was the Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre.〔N. Pevsner and E. Williamson, ''Buckinghamshire'', 2nd edition, Penguin Books (Buildings of England), 1994, ISBN 0-14-071062-0, page 494.〕〔(Milton Keynes shopping centre becomes Grade II listed )The Guardian, 16 July 2010〕 At the time of its opening in 1979 it was a unique concept for of retail space with a plan generated around covered landscaped streets. The team for this complex included Stuart Mosscrop, Christopher Woodward and Syd Green.〔(Early housing in Milton Keynes ) Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre〕 In 1980, Walker was involved with Norman Foster and Frank Newby in a controversial scheme to expand the Whitney Museum in New York City using air rights purchased from nearby properties to build a mixed-use skyscraper which would include a new wing for the museum. When a furore developed, the museum denied it had solicited the team.〔(The Whitney Museum repulses Norman Foster's first assault on New York, 1980. )〕 Walker was the architect for the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, a 42.5million project which opened to the public in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.royalarmouries.org/about-us/royal-armouries-history/royal-armouries-in-leeds )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Derek Walker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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