Professor Alan Dunlop FRIAS FRSA

Architect

Visiting Professor The University of Liverpool School of Architecture

Visiting Professor Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment

Robert Gordon University

Professor Alan Dunlop is a leading architect and urban designer with over twenty years experience as a respected educator.

He has an international profile, with many contacts in universities and the profession in Europe, China and

throughout the USA. He has completed a successful period as the Distinguished Victor L. Regnier Visiting Chair in

Architecture at Kansas State University and as the Mahlum Endowed Lecturer at the University of Washington.

He is currently visiting professor at Robert Gordon University, Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and the University of

Liverpool. He was the external examiner at XJTLU School of Architecture, Suzhou, China and guided the school toward RIBA

accreditation in 2014. XJTLU is the first school of architecture on mainland China to receive accreditation from the RIBA.

Moreover, he was a member of the RIBA accreditation board for the University of Strathclyde.

A Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland and the Royal Society of Arts, he was educated in London and

at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow. He has written extensively on architecture and urban design in a

number of professional journals and had papers on architecture published in peer reviewed journals and internationally. Two

books on his work: “Challenging Contextualism” ISBN 1-903653-15-0 and “Curious Rationalism” ISBN1-903653-37-1 have also

been published.

His studio has completed many award winning architecture and urban design projects and has won over fifty national and

international awards, including Europa Nostra; three Royal Institute of British Architects Awards; three Civic Trust Awards;

seven Scottish Design Awards; the Scottish Design Awards: Grand Prix for Architecture; a Special Award from the Royal

Institute of the Architects of Ireland; a British Construction Industry: Best Practice Award; a Designshare Honor Award and

three International Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum.

In his 25 year career as an architect he led one of the UK’s leading practices and has worked with major developers, various

funding agencies, public bodies, local government and industry throughout the UK and has extensive practice based experi-

ence and the capacity to disseminate this through lectures, publications and exhibitions … both nationally and internationally.

He also has experience of strategic management across various subject areas in the USA, UK and China and of management in

terms of major operational control and at strategic policy level in higher education.

Selected Published Writing; Exhibitions and Lectures:

An engine room for innovation: National Theatre of Scotland

Architects’ Journal 25.05.2017

Unsettling Approach: Maggie’s Centre, Forth Valley

Architects’ Journal 26.04.2017

Kelvin Hall, Glasgow: Kelvin Hall Brought Back to Life

Architects’ Journal 23.03.2017

The North American Gridiron City : Guest Lecture

Liverpool School Of Architecture 21.03.2017

Ethics and Morality: A Discussion

Professor Alan Dunlop; Professor Michael Wilford; Professor Ian Ritchie; Professor Nicholas Ray

Liverpool School of Architecture 28.03.2017

Great Detail: Alan Dunlop on Louis Kahn’s Trenton Bath House

Architects’ Journal 08.12.2016

Scotland's Schools for the Future: Lairdsland Primary School

Architects' Journal 15.01.16

Festival Of Architecture 2016: Ignore the RIAS gimmicks

Architects' Journal December 2015

House Plan: Glenn Murcutt's Kempsey House

Architects' Journal August 2015

Architecture efface le handicap: Hazelwood School

Vernissage de l'exposition 'Quand l'architecture efface le handicap' Lille, France March / April 2015

Replication is never the right thing to do: Mackintosh Library

Building Design 17th March 2015

Mackintosh Library to be restored: A lost opportunity? BBC Arts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4tR37dg3bZtcWltqPRD8cfZ/mackintosh-library-to-be-restored-a-lost-opportunity

Urbanisation and Conservation in China: Lecture Presentation

Scottish Civic Trust / Built Environment Forum 18th March 2015 Sir Charles Wilson Building, Glasgow

Royal Scottish Academy: Art and Architecture

29 November 2014 20 January 2015

Neuroscience and Architecture The Missing Link

Urban Realm October 2014

Glasgow Commonwealth Games Legacy

You Only Live Twice Critical Review RIBA Journal October 2014

Banquet of Consequences: Presentation to The Scottish Civic Trust 29th October 2014

Drawing Inspiration:

Exhibition of new work and drawings. Mackintosh’s House for an Art Lover 8th September to 28th October 2014

Salk Institute for Biological Studies 2014

"Professor Alan Dunlop accepted an invitation from Professor Thomas D Albright, President of the Academy of Neuroscience for

Architecture at the Salk Institute and from the American Institute of Architects to present his work.”

Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture

Architects Journal 29th August 2014

“Very few architects have left such a legacy of buildings and influenced so much of contemporary architecture, yet Kahn remains largely

unknown outside of architecture circles.

Eye Line Competition: RIBA Journal

1st August 2014

Making Architecture: Three Projects

28th May 2014

Presentation to The American Institute of Architects CAE International Conference, Barcelona

Critical Review: Poetics and Ruthless Pragmatism

Architecture Research Quarterly, Cambridge University Press

September 2013

Critique of the Seona Reid Building, Glasgow School of Art by Steven Holl

Critical Review: Maryhill Burgh Halls by JM Architects

Architects Journal

July 10 2013

“ To some, Glasgow can often appear to be a divided city……..”

“Ask not what you can do for China……”

Urban Design Journal 127

June 2013

"..........issues faced by an urban design consultant working in China today to what western practitioners can learn from it, and from the

dangers of transferring ideas from one culture to another to a reflection on the Chinese replication of western cities."

Venice Takeaway: Ideas to Change British Architecture

British Council

Calvert 22 Gallery

April 2013

“Robert Gordon University professor Alan Dunlop, an advocate for encouraging hand drawing within his faculty, argued that recent

architecture graduates lack the ability to use sketching as a thinking process to incubate ideas, labelling the more popular use of

computers as tools for drawing without thinking.” Architectural Review.

How to Get Ahead in China

RIBA Journal

November 2012

"RIBA accreditation is held as a gold standard by XJTLU and its requirements should address the gaps that are evident in how

architecture is taught currently. In future we may also see Chinese practices carrying the RIBA stamp."

Drawn to China

Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland Journal

October 2012

" Many taxi drivers in Suzhou have long, manicured finger nails to distinguish them from manual workers. In the People's Republic, social

status is important."

Working in China

Urban Realm

October 25 2012

“In 1852, Illinois newspaper editor John B Soule advised Americans to “Go West young man … and grow up with the country” Today,

sage advice to young architects in Britain and the USA might be to do the opposite and go east.”

Big Lessons from a Small Place

Peer reviewed paper

October 2012

Alan Dunlop was invited to present his paper Big Lessons from a Small Place at the Masterplanning the Future Conference in Suzhou. He

also took part in debate in the public session and chaired two conference presentations. Formally published ISBN 978-1-903094-0103.

Mackintosh Architecture: Context Making and Meaning

Architecture Today 27th July 2014

Waterfront Cities of the World: Glasgow

May 2015

Broadcast to 110 countries and 180 million people worldwide. Alan Dunlop talks about the medieval, Georgian and Victorian history of

Glasgow.

The Status of Architecture in America, UK and China

Foundation for Architecture and Education

October 2012

Design Like You Give a Damn (2)

Architecture for Humanity: Book Launch May 1st 2012

Alan Dunlop and Hazelwood School included as the only UK architect and single project from over 100 international works from the

USA, Europe, Japan, Africa and South America.

S P A N D R E L:

JOURNAL OF SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE, BHOPAL INDIA

New Dimensions in Research of Environments for Living

ISSN 2231 – 4601 SPANDREL

Family of Schools Exhibition

25/04/2012 – 20/05/2012

The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow, G1 3NU

“The Family of Schools exhibition looks at how related school designs can respond to their environment and surrounding. The exhibition

highlights some of the core design qualities we aspire to in all Scottish schools captured in the designs and drawings by Professor Alan

Dunlop”.

House for an Art Lover

Working Drawing: Solo Exhibition

February/ March 2012

Critical Review: Hillhead Primary School by JM Architects

Architects’ Journal

9 Feb 2012

Architects’ Journal / Kingspan Benchmark Lecture

KPF Gallery London

“Alan Dunlop gave a lecture to an audience packed into Kohn Peterson Fox’s new gallery on Langley Street, London. “Discussing the cen-

tral role sketching and drawing plays in the design and development of good architecture, Alan used his own work and the drawings of

past masters that have influenced his style, including Paul Rudolph Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We

heard a great talk and we saw some really great sketches and drawings” Architects’ Journal

Working Drawing – The Hand Generated Image Master-class

House for an Art Lover

“This brilliant full day masterclass was linked to Alan Dunlop’s Working Drawing exhibition of original artwork that was shown at the

House from 21 February to 19 March 2012. The Herald

American Institute of Architects London Conference 2011

Alan Dunlop FRIAS; Ron Bogle President & CEO of the American Architectural Foundation; Steven Bingler Founder and

President of Concordia; Timothy Dufault President / CEO Cuningham Group

British Council ADF Papers 2

Back of the Envelope

Context and Change in Scottish Architecture: Penny Lewis

November 2011

BCSE Conference

Building Better Schools: Lecture on Hazelwood School

November 2011

Pollokshields Heritage

Public Lecture: Thought Lines

April 2011

Kansas State University

Heintzelman Jury and Public Lecture: A River Runs Through It

May 2011

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture

The Big Crit

May 2011 , 2012, 2013, 2014

Critical Review: University of Aberdeen Library by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

Architects’ Journal

December 2011

2011 The Year in Review: The Stories that Shook Your World

Architects’ Journal

December 2011

Drawing with Dunlop: the Forgotten Art of Sketching; March 2011

Architects’ Journal

Patricia Cain at Kelvingrove: Review and Comment

May 2011

Urban Realm

Feature Article: Handyman

October 2011

OZ Journal 33

Feature Article: Hand Drawing in a Digital Age

November 2011

Critical Review: Courtyard Theatre RSC by Ian Ritchie Architects

Nov 25 2010

“It is apt that the play chosen to open the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC's) Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is that epic

trilogy of rebellion and war, Henry VI. It and Ian Ritchie's new building seem absolutely compatible. Ritchie's exterior presents as a

fortress. Inside, the centrepiece of the set is a tower welded from Cor-ten steel. Both the building and the play leave the impression of

determined and resolute power.”

Critical Review: John Lautner Exhibition

RIBA Journal

May 2009

Critical Review: Childrens Eye Center, Moorfields Hospital by Peynore Prasad Architects

Architects Journal April 2007 Published Monographs: Curious Rationalism and Challenging Contextualism

Curious Rationalism

Published March 2008

Carnyx ISBN 1-903653-37-1

Selected International and National Awards for Architecture:

BCSE AWARD. Best School Architect

WAN AWARDS: World Education Building Of The Year 2009 – High Commendation Second Placing

BCSE AWARD

IDA International Design Awards

Premio Internazionale Dedalo Minosse Alla Committenza Di Architettura

Civic Trust Award(s) 3

Design Share – Honor Award

G.I.A. Award(s) 7

Chicago Athenaeum Museum Of Architecture And Design International Architecture Award(s) 3

Royal Scottish Academy Gold Medal For Architecture

Scottish Design Award – Affordable Housing

Scottish Design Awards Best Regeneration Project

RIBA National Award(s) 3

BCO Award Best Commercial Workplace

Roses Design And Advertising Award – Chairman’s Award – Gold

Royal Incorporation Of Architects In Scotland, Andrew Doolan Award. Best Building In Scotland – Final Shortlist (5)

Scottish Design Awards Best Commercial Project

Scottish Design Awards Best Commercial Project

Scottish Design Awards Architecture Grand Prix

RIAI Special Award For The Best Commercial Building

European Hotel Design Awards : Best New Hotel

1st European Union Prize For Cultural Heritage Europa Nostra Award

Scottish Design Award Public Choice Category

Judges Special Award Winner – Interchange, The Integrated Transport Awards

Scottish Design Award Public Space Category

British Construction Industry Award

CV:

Education:

Polytechnic of Central London 1980 to 1983 –BA Arch (Hons)

Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow University 1984 to 1986- Dip Arch

Professional Membership:

Fellow Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland 1998; Fellow Royal Society of Arts 2008

Current Practice Details:

Director and Principal: Alan Dunlop Architect Limited. Established May 2010

Previous Practice(s) :

Partner, Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop Architects 1996-2010 Medium sized, (45 architects and staff) design led office

Partner, Simpson Associates, Manchester 1990-1993

Current Education Details:

Chair in Contemporary Architectural Practice: Liverpool School of Architecture, The University of Liverpool

Visiting Professor: Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Robert Gordon University

Visiting Professor: Liverpool School of Architecture, The University of Liverpool

Establish and Running own MArch Architecture and Urban Design Units.

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Professor Alan Dunlop Over the past twenty years Alan Dunlop has transformed architectural culture in Scotland. His buildings – and his profile as a leading architectural commentator - have something of the Victorian swagger that Glasgow, and the UK, was once so famous for. And his role as Professor, teacher, mixing leftfield thinking, classic modernism and a healthy respect for craft, continues to influence a new generation. An inspirational leader, Alan’s generosity, honesty and warm sense of humour foster loyalty, friendship and damn hard work. Alan’s forceful, thoughtful, and often witty creativity is an essential foil to the conservative mind-set that dominates British architectural practice. Buildings like Hazelwood School; the Radisson SAS Hotel and JKS workshops in Clydebank are genuinely ground-breaking projects. Hazelwood uses materiality and space to enhance and dignify the act of special needs teaching and learning. The Radisson SAS uses glamour, scale and bombast to reinvigorate Glasgow’s urban design. And JKS uses pattern and bespoke details to represent that most prosaic of building types: the roadside shed. User-friendly, beautifully crafted, uncannily new – these are among the best works in Scotland to emerge since the millennium’s turn. Furthermore, Alan Dunlop is the ‘go-to guy’ for every UK journalist writing about the built environment. His insight into how the architectural profession thinks and how the construction industry works is always compelling, often con-troversial, and in a world of hi-security PR, a breath of fresh air. Alan is a tireless cheerleader for architectural culture and urban design; both in terms of professional practice and education. Long before Twitter and Facebook overhauled the web, Alan was a regular online player on message boards and forums dedicated to architectural culture. Discussions open up around his online comments, whether on the merits or otherwise of recently completed UK pro-jects, the pros and cons of UK development culture or his passion for freehand drawing. Yet ‘old media’ is also a natural stomping ground for Alan. Whether writing building studies for The Architect’s Jour-nal, providing intelligent, accessible commentary for the public on the BBC, debating controversial topics in the na-tional press, or in his capacity as a regular letter-writer to a number of titles, Alan is an expert communicator. Rory Olcayto The Architect’s Journal Editor Feature Writer of the Year 2010 Architecture Writer of the Year 2011 Director London Open- City

Professor Alan Dunlop

To Whom it may Concern:

I was honored to receive a request for a reference letter for Professor Alan Dunlop.

I first became acquainted with Alan a few years ago when he sent his Hazelwood School to me so that we could

consider it for publication in a special edition of Architectural Record called Schools of the 21st Century. We were

somewhat surprised to find an amazing example of the type, one of the finest we had seen in years, and we

were proud to feature it.

As I investigated further I became very excited about Alan’s work, not just for the design of the buildings them-

selves, of course, but also because of his sensitivity to and deep regard for the urban context in which most of

his projects are designed and constructed. The fantastic aerial perspectives that are his design tools frequently

cover huge expanses, and are undoubtedly expressive of deep meditations about the land, traffic and pedestrian

circulation, neighborhoods, and above all people. We have frequently corresponded about his work, and I have

been pleased that his design process does not exclude the input of others. I am of the opinion that while great

work requires firm leadership, we are no longer working in an era where the input of users and other design

team members can be ignored.

These are important characteristics for people who direct institutions as well, of course, and Alan’s work pro-

cess is an inclusive one. I’ve also kept up to date with the work of his students, both at the Scott Sutherland

School of Architecture at Aberdeen, Liverpool School of Architecture and Kansas State University’s College of

Architecture, Design and Planning. Those he teaches come away from the experience having reached new levels

of accomplishment.

As I began to spread the word about his projects it became quite clear that through the frequent publication of

his work in the British press and elsewhere (the Web makes it possible for everyone to read everything, and

they do) people all over the world had also been noticing Alan and his work. I would say that many people now

consider him to be face of Scottish architecture.

Alan’s appearances as Professor in the United States have caught the attention of many others. You know this is

true when institutions as far afield as the Regnier Chair at Kansas State and Mahlum Endowment Lecture at the

University of Washington come calling. Certainly his presence as an internationally known architect and urban

designer will only continue to grow.

On a personal level, Alan is extremely amiable. I have found him to be very responsive in our dealings, and very

down to earth. He is fervently true to his personal values, a deeply ethical man, and if it comes down to the dif-

ference between what he perceives to be right and wrong, he is not afraid of controversy.

Clearly, Alan has earned my highest recommendation

Sincerely,

Charles Linn, FAIA

Architectural Record

Director of Communications

University of Kansas