Alan runs a boutique architectural practice founded on the belief that clients deserve personal attention. He specialises in delivering sensitive responses to client needs, providing inspirational design and expert guidance in all aspects of the building process.

As an award-winning, highly experienced practitioner he has delivered multiple projects from family homes to corporate campuses and city master planning. His extensive portfolio of built work includes Hazelwood School; an internationally acclaimed campus for children and young people with special needs, listed as one of the top five schools of the 21st Century by Architectural Record and the RIBA; the Radisson SAS in Glasgow; and Glasgow Harbour GH20.

He is acknowledged as an expert on architecture that meets the needs of clients with challenging briefs including the development of sensitive sites; buildings of specific challenge such as care of the elderly and people with cognitive impairment and highly specialised design requirements.

In corporate practice, he was awarded over fifty national and international awards, including Europa Nostra; Royal Institute of British Architects 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 two International Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum.

A Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, and an alumnus of the Glasgow School of Art, he is acknowledged as an accomplished draughtsperson and a gifted artist. His drawings have been exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy, and in exhibitions in The House for an Art Lover.

In 2020, he won the RIBA Journals’ Eye Line drawing prize for his Lockdown Sketchbooks. Those sketchbooks were requested by the Mitchell Library and are now part of the Glasgow City Archive. His drawings of Stevenson lighthouses have featured in the press internationally.  Other sketchbooks and practice drawings have been featured in the national press and other media publications worldwide. He is widely published on architecture and urban design and is a sought-after commentator on television and written media.

Alan is a respected educator, with multiple visiting professorships including the Distinguished Victor L. Regnier Visiting Chair in Architecture at Kansas State University; the Mahlum Endowed Lecturer at the University of Washington; the Chair of Contemporary Architecture Practice, and visiting professor at the University of Liverpool.

He was visiting professor at Robert Gordon University for over a decade and ran his own Master of Architecture MArch unit  there – He was the external examiner at XJTLU School of Architecture, Suzhou, China, and guided the school toward RIBA accreditation in 2014, making it the first school in mainland China to be accredited by the RIBA.

In 2019, he was appointed as External Academic Specialist to the joint architecture and urban design programme of the University of Dundee and the University of Wuhan in Hubei