Andy Bow was born in Edinburgh and studied architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow. He began working in architectural practice in 1978 and after graduating in 1988, he moved to London to work with Sir Jeremy Dixon and Ed Jones. He subsequently worked with Sir Terry Farrell as Design Director, where he worked on schemes in the Middle East, Far East, the UK and Europe. As a student he won numerous awards and competitions including the first prize in international architectural competitions in New York and Amsterdam, the Glasgow School of Art Newberry Medal and the City of Glasgow Silver Medal for Architecture.

Since joining Foster + Partners in 1996 he has worked on many projects both locally and abroad. He has led many of the practice’s projects in London, including the Millennium Bridge over the Thames, City Hall (the Greater London Authority Headquarters), the ‘World Squares for All’ Masterplan for Trafalgar Square and Albion Riverside, a major mixed-use development in Battersea.

He was promoted to senior partner in May 2006 and is currently deputy group leader of Group 3 in the office, working alongside the company’s CEO, Mouzhan Majidi, managing a team of more than 200 designers on a wide range of international projects. These projects include the detailed design of the tallest building in Europe, to be built in Moscow, the Clarence Hotel in Dublin and the Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona. He is also currently working on a variety of further projects in the USA, Russia, Ireland, UK Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Dubai, India, Thailand, Vietnam, China and Australia.

He has lectured and taught in over 30 schools of architecture around the world, most recently at Yale. In 2000, he was a judge of the RIBA Bronze and Silver student medals and has been a RIBA External Examiner at the Bartlett School of Architecture for the last ten years.