The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series
Andy Bow
Foster + Partners in London
- Thursday 27th November 2014 > 6.30pm
- Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]
Dr Andy Bow
Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architecture, Yale
Senior Partner, Foster + Partners
Andy Bow joined Foster + Partners in 1996 and is now a Senior Partner.
He studied architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow. As a student he won numerous awards including the Glasgow School of Art Newberry Medal and the City of Glasgow Silver Medal for Architecture.
After graduating in 1988 he moved to London to work with Jeremy Dixon and Ed Jones.
He then moved to Terry Farrell’s office, where as a design director he worked on schemes in the Middle East, the Far East, the UK and Europe.
Recent projects at Foster + Partners have included The Queen Alia International Airport, Jordan; the Ilham Baru Tower, Kuala Lumpur and the Musée de la Romanité Narbonne. He has also worked on many of the practice’s projects in London, including: the Millennium Bridge, City Hall, the masterplan for Trafalgar Square; and Albion Riverside.
He is currently working on a variety of projects in London, including the Battersea Power Station Masterplan where he is working alongside Frank Gehry.
He is an ARB registered Architect and is a Fellow of the RIAS.
In 2000, he was a judge of the RIBA Bronze and Silver student medals and for ten years was an RIBA External Examiner at the Bartlett. He has lectured and been a visiting critic in over 30 schools of architecture around the world, most recently at the Bartlett, AA and the RCA.
He is currently an Eero Saarinen visiting Professor at Yale University and in June 2014 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Glasgow.
