John is an award-winning architect, architectural historian and author who, prior to his retirement from architectural practice, was the leader of one of the UK’s largest multi-disciplinary architectural practices. In his work he focussed on major public building projects which included Exeter Crown Courts, the Wycombe Swan Theatre and Milton Keynes Magistrates Courts. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Society of Arts and was twice selected as one of the best 40 Architects under Forty in the UK. Winner of several RIBA Awards, his designs have been published in Architecture Today, The Architect’s Journal, Building, Building Design, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and Pevsner’s Buildings of England.
He has been writing and lecturing full-time since 2015, and written six books, “Alvar Aalto : Architect” (Merrell London New York) published March 2017, “Nordic Classical Architecture” published by Bloomsbury in September 2018, “The Twentieth Century Town Hall” published by Routledge in 2019, the first full biography of Sir Herbert Baker, “Architect to the British Empire” which was published by McFarland in 2021 and a joint biography of contemporaneous Scottish architects, John James Burnet and James Miller which was also published by Whittles in 2021. He has recently completed his latest book on “British Architectural Sculpture” which was published in May 2024 by Lund Humphries. He is also acting as series advisor in the making of a documentary on Sir Herbert Baker and collaborating on a documentary on Nordic Classicism for Netflix.
John was born in Scotland and educated at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, the Oxford School of Architecture and Henley Management College and lives in Buckinghamshire, just outside London.
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