Director, Richard Murphy was educated at Newcastle and Edinburgh Universities. Before founding the practice he worked for Simpson & Brown Architects, Edinburgh, MacCormac Jamieson & Pritchard Architects London and directed the Edinburgh office of Alsop Lyall & Stormer Architects. He has also held a teaching position in Edinburgh University during which time he completed extensive research into the work of the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa at the Castelvecchio Museum Verona. He has also held part time teaching posts at Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, Edinburgh College of Art, Strathclyde University Glasgow, Technical University of Braunschweig Germany, University of Virginia and Syracuse University New York State.

Publications by Richard Murphy include:

Carlo Scarpa and the Castelvecchio, published by Butterworths Architecture in English, and Arsenale Editrice in Italian.

Querini Stampalia Foundation, Carlo Scarpa, published by Phaidon Press, London 1993 and by Dohosha Publishing Tokyo in Japanese.

An Architects’ Appreciation of Charles Rennie Mackintosh for the Mackintosh Society, published by Bellew Publishing.

He also presented a Channel 4 documentary “Carlo Scarpa” produced by Murray Grigor, first broadcast October 1996.

Richard Murphy is a Member of the RIBA, a Fellow of the RIAS, an Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Trustee of the Turn End Trust, an Honorary Fellow of Napier University, and a frequent Chairman of Regional RIBA Awards Panels.

In 2006 Richard was voted “Scottish Architect of the Year” by the readers of Prospect Magazine. In the Queen’s New Year’s Honours 2007, he was awarded an OBE.