History
Murphy was educated at Newcastle and Edinburgh Universities, and has taught at the latter. He formed his practice in 1991, which has since grown to over twenty architects, and is now housed on Old Fishmarket Close, in the Old Town of Edinburgh. The practice made its name designing small scale extensions to houses and mews conversions, and found great success with buildings for the arts, particularly lottery-funded projects. His work, in its desire to create contemporary architecture but with a sense of place and history, shows the influence of Carlo Scarpa, who he has done academic research into. In 1998 he presented a Channel 4 documentary on Scarpa, directed by Murray Grigor. In 2004 the practice exhibited at the Venice Biennale.
He was appointed an OBE in the New Year's Honours December 2006.
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