Generation

Curated by Richard Murphy RSA OBE, Generation brings together the work of seventeen architects, all of whom formerly worked at the Edinburgh practice of Richard Murphy Architects and have since gone on to establish their own successful practices.

Richard Murphy writes: 'The exhibition explores the idea of the architectural family tree. I freely acknowledge my teachers as, amongst others, Ted Cullinan (1931-2019), Richard MacCormac (1938-2014) for whom I worked, Isi Metzstein
(1928-2012) and posthumously, Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978). I have invited fourteen practices that have been established by colleagues who previously spent time in our practice to exhibit up to four projects each and to discuss their ideas behind them.

There are twelve architectural practices represented. In addition, I invited two exhibitors who chose not to establish architectural offices but have gone on to distinguish themselves in other ways. Ed Hollis is a professor of Interior design
and author at Edinburgh School of Architecture whilst Peter Guthrie set up a computer-generated image (CGI) practice, 'Boundary' which has since grown to be one of the leading international practices in its field.