Andy Bow 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 Jeremy Dixon Edward Jones Architects. He subsequently moved to Terry Farrell and Partners as Design Director where he worked on schemes in the Middle East, Far East, the UK and Europe. He has 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), and the ‘World Squares for All’ Masterplan for Trafalgar Square. He was director in charge of Albion Riverside, a major mixed-use development in Battersea completed in 2004, and was made partner in the same year.

He was promoted to senior partner in May 2006 and is currently deputy group leader working alongside Mouzhan Majidi, managing a team of 130 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, a major mixed-use masterplan on the waterfront in Lisbon, and new Arts and Business buildings for Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona.

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 eight years.