William Alsop
Famed for his boldly engineered buildings and colourful approach to design, Will Alsop has worked extensively across the United Kingdom and internationally, with major projects in cities such as Toronto, Marseilles, Hamburg, Shanghai, Singapore and New York.
In June 2009 the well-known American publication Fast Company put Will Alsop in first place among the ten greatest architects universally known for their creative, innovative approach.
2005 – Member of the Ontario Association of Architect, Royal Architectural Institute of
Canada, Canadian Architectural Certification Board
2000 – Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts (RA), London
1997 – Member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA)
1996 – Professor Vienna Technical University (Dipl.Ing)
1983 – Société des Architectes Diplomés par le Gouvernement (SADG)
1981 – Fellow Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
1978 – Chartered Architect (ARB)
Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
1973 – Architectural Association Diploma (AADiploma)
2004 – Honorary Doctorate, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto
2002 – Honorary Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University
2001 – Honorary Doctorate, University of Nottingham Trent School of Architecture
1997 – Visiting Professor, the London Institute
1996 – Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Honorary Doctorate of Law, Leicester University
1995 – Member of the Russian Academy of Art
1994/98 – Member of the Design Council
1992 – Hamburgische Architektenkammer Rhône
Academic Appointments
1997 – Professor, University of Vienna
1990 – Visiting Professor, University of Hanover
1988 – Unit Master, Architectural Association
1986 – Visiting Professor, Bremen Academy of Art & Music
1984 – Visiting Professor, Royal Melbourne Institute of Design
1984 – Visiting Professor, New South Wales Institute of Technology
1982 – The Davis Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans
1977 – Visiting Professor, San Francisco Institute of Art
Visiting Professor, Ball State University, Indiana
1973 – Tutor in Sculpture, St Martin’s School of Art
2006 – Benjamin Moore HUE Award Contract Exteriors for professional body of work
including, Hotel du Department, Marseilles, Peckham Library and Fawood
Children’s Centre London, OCAD and WESTside Sales Pavilion, Toronto
2005 – Toronto Architecture and Urban Design Award, Award of Excellence, Building in Context, Best of Show, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada
2004 – National Post DX Design Effectiveness Award: OCAD, Toronto, Canada
RIBA Worldwide Projects Award: OCAD, Toronto, Canada
2003 – MIPIM – Future Project Prizes: THE pUBLIC, West Bromwich
AJ/Bovis Lend Lease Award for Architecture – RA Summer Show: Barnsley Masterplan
2002 – AJ/Bovis Lend Lease Award for Architecture – RA Summer Show: SZ Family House of the Future
2001 – Concrete Society Award: Cardiff Bay Barrage
AIA London Chapter Design Award for Best Building: Peckham Library
Civic Trust Award: Peckham Library
BCIA Award: Peckham Library
2000 – RIBA Stirling Prize – Building of the Year: Peckham Library
BCIA Award: North Greenwich Jubilee Line Station, London
RIBA Civic and Community Architecture Award, North Greenwich Jubilee Line Station, London
1999 – RIBA Award: North Greenwich Jubilee Line Station, London
Concrete Society Award: North Greenwich Jubilee Line Station
1997 – RIBA Worldwide Projects Award: Le Grand Bleu, Marseille, France
RIBA Civic & Community Architecture Award, Le Grand Bleu, Marseille Barrage
1995 – Palmarés Award for Architecture, Le Grand Bleu, Marseille
1991/ 1992 – Paraplegic Facilities Special Prize: Berlin Olympics 2000
Architectural Prize: Potsdamer/ Leipziger Platz
White Rose Award: Leeds Corn Exchange
RIBA National Award: Cardiff Bay Visitor’s Centre
2005 – Short-listed, Edmonton Art Gallery Competition, Alberta, Canada
2004 – Short-listed, Vancouver Art Gallery Masterplan, British Columbia, Canada
2004 – Short-listed, Banff Centre for the Art, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2003 – First Prize, Fourth Grace, Liverpool, UK
2003 – First Prize, Walsall Waterfront, UK
2002 – Special Mention, Duxton Plain Public Housing, Singapore
1999 – Special Prize, Oslo Opera House, Oslo, Norway
1996 – 2nd Prize, UK Embassy, Berlin, Germany
1994 – Short-listed, Tate Modern, London, UK
1993 – 1st Prize, Swansea Centre of Literature, Sweasea, UK
1991/2 – Special Prize, Potsdamer/Leipziger Platz, Berlin, Germany
1990 – 1st Prize, Hotel du Département des Bouches-du-Marseille, France
2002 – Bruce McLean and Will Alsop, Malagarba Works: Wiley-Academy
Will Alsop Book 2: Laurence King Publishing
2001 – Will Alsop Book 1: Laurence King Publishing
1999 – Master Architects Series: Alsop & Störmer: Images Publishing
1998 – New Urban Environments: Royal Academy of Arts, London
1995 – Power to Change: BBC Wales
1994 – Architecture in Process: Academy Editions
Architectural Drawing Masterclass: Studio Vista
Le Grand Bleu: Academy Editions
William Alsop & Jan Störmer – Monograph no. 33: Academy Editions
1993 – William Alsop, Buildings & Projects: Phaidon
1992 – City & Objects: Artemis
Canada in New York City, Moderated by Andrew Blum of the New York Times with Daniel Liebeskind
2005 – Special Judge, Canadian Fashion Week, September, Toronto
2004 – Present Thames Gateway International Design Committee
2001 – 03 Yorkshire Forward Urban Renaissance Panel
2013 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2012 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2011 – Proper Behaviour in the Park, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2009 – South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre, Nightingale Place, London
2007 – Towards…, Chelsea Space, London
2007 – Jack in the Box, Finland
2007 – Bradford, MoMA New York
2007 – Future City, The Barbican, London
2007 – Cultural Fog, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto
2007 – Bathing Beauties, The Hub:National Centre for Craft & Design, Lincolnshire
2007 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2007 – Creative Prisons, Touring exhibition
2005 – Supercities, Urbis, Manchester
2005 – Groundswell; MoMA, New York City
2005 – Picture a City, Bradford Masterplan film by Squint Opera
2004 – Middlehaven Masterplan, Venice Biennale
2002 – Malagarba Works, Will Alsop & Bruce McLean: Milton Keynes Gallery
2002 – All Barnsley Might Dream, Venice Biennale
2002 – Beauty, Joy & the Real, Sir John Soane Museum, London
2001 – Not Architecture, Aedes East Gallery, Berlin
2000 – Venice Biennale
2000 – National Institute of Architecture (NAI), Rotterdam
1998 – Alsop Paintings & Architecture, Architekturgalerie, Stuttgart
1997 – River of Dreams, Mayor Gallery, London
1996 – Exhibition of Paintings, Beatrix Gallery, London
1995 – Exhibition of Paintings, Westcliffe Gallery, Norfolk
1995 – Exhibition of Paintings, The Mayor Gallery, London
1994 – Exhibition of Paintings, Galerie Lilli Bock, Hamburg
1992 – Selected Projects Exhibition, Aedes Gallery, Berlin
1992 – Arc en Rêve, Hôtel du Département, Marseilles, Bordeaux
1991 – Fluid Forms/Fluid Functions, Edinburgh
1987 – Bridge/Beam/Floor/Roof, The Architecture Centre, Bremen
1985 – Paris Biennale Exhibition
1975 – Five Young Architects Exhibition, Artnet Gallery, London
1974 – Forty London Architects Exhibition, Artnet Gallery, London
1974 – Group Exhibition: Fruit Market, Edinburgh
1973 – Radical Architecture Exhibition, Padua
1969 – Two Man Exhibition, Compendium Gallery
