Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects

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Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects, abbreviated to Murray Dunlop and gm+ad, is an architecture practice based in Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded by Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop in 1997.^[1] The practice has published two books of their work, Curious Rationalism, and Challenging Contextualism.

Gordon Murray is from Glasgow, and studied at Glasgow School of Art (GSA). He has written on architecture for newspapers and magazines, and has co-authored a monograph on the architect James Miller (1860-1947). He has taught architecture in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and in 2007 was appointed Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He was awarded the Royal Scottish Academy medal in 1990, and from 2003-2005, Murray was President of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.^[2]

Alan Dunlop, also educated at the GSA, has taught architecture in Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow, and is a visiting professor at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture at Robert Gordon University. His architectural commentary is widely published, and he is a member of the editorial board of Prospect, the Scottish architecture magazine.^[3]

The practice has won over 25 awards, including the 2008 RSA Medal for Architecture, for the South West Community Health Care Partnership Headquarters Building, Glasgow.^[4] They won the 2006 RIBA award for the John Knox Street Workshops, Clydebank, and the 2005 RIBA Award for the Sentinel Building, Glasgow. Their restoration of Glasgow Central Station won the 2004 RIBA Conservation Award, and the first Europa Nostra European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage, in 2002.^[5]

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• Sloan, Audry; with Murray, Gordon (1993). James Miller: 1860-1947. Edinburgh: Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. ISBN 0-873190-15-8.