Dereck is a graduate of the Architectural Association, London, recipient of the Canada Council Prix de Rome in Architecture,(1991-92) and has taught at Universities across Canada, in the USA and Italy. The works of Dereck Revington Studio encompass architecture, commissioned public sculpture, museum installations and performance, and over the last decade have been installed and exhibited in Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, New York and Toronto. Commissions and awards include: Reaching for Nothing: Water’s Thirst-2008 (world premier of contemporary opera, authored and co-created with Composer Peter Hatch - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics), Skin of fLight (large three piece bronze sculpture, Lester B. Pearson International Airport -2006, The Luminous Veil, Toronto -2002 (Canadian Architect Award of Excellence 1999) The Girl with no Door on her Mouth-2002 in collaboration with Phillip Beesley ((Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding stage design and lighting design for electro-acoustic opera) and Downsview Park International Design Competition (Finalist - with Bernard Tschumi Architects(NY) and Sterling Finlayson Architects (TO) Research interests include: Poetry ,Theory and Design.
Professor Emeritus