Ian Bogle
Founder and Creative Director, Bogle Architects, BArch (Hons) MArch RIBA ARIAS CKA SKA FRSA
Ian was born in Glasgow in April 1970. He studied architecture and urban design at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1993. He qualified as an architect in 1994 while working for the Glasgow firm, The Parr Partnership, after which he joined Foster + Partners in 1995.
Ian was site architect for the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre on the banks of the River Clyde before moving to London in 1997. As a project director his time at Foster’s culminated in two projects being nominated for the 2004 Stirling prize, namely the Bexley Business Academy and the eventual winner, Swiss Re HQ (The Gherkin).
Seeking new challenges, Ian joined Hamiltons Architects in 2002 where he was instrumental in the redirection and restructuring of the firm. Pioneering an international approach, Ian established the Prague studio in 2008 while continuing to deliver a strong UK workload. In 2010 he was co-founder of the succession practice Bogle Flanagan Lawrence Silver.
Ian founded Bogle Architects in 2012 and the, multi award winning, practice is now active in over 35 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and South America across many different building typologies and sectors. Bogle Architects has gained a reputation for thinking out the box with examples of the studio’s work including the Research facility for most powerful lasers in the world (ELI Beamlines in Prague), the largest kindergarden in the world (The Early Learning Village in Singapore) for over 2100 Early Years aged children and the most significant mixed-use regeneration project of 70,000sqm in Porto. Ian has also recently designed the DUGA project in Belgrade.
Ian believes in education through encouragement and opportunity and is frequently invited to lecture on Architecture and Design across the international conference circuit.
Beyond the studio he is also a Trustee of the Jubilee Gardens Trust in Waterloo, London, Chair of Governors at More House School in Knightsbridge, London and recently a visiting end-point assesor in architecture at London South Bank University.
Ian was site architect for the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre on the banks of the River Clyde before moving to London in 1997. As a project director his time at Foster’s culminated in two projects being nominated for the 2004 Stirling prize, namely the Bexley Business Academy and the eventual winner, Swiss Re HQ (The Gherkin).
Seeking new challenges, Ian joined Hamiltons Architects in 2002 where he was instrumental in the redirection and restructuring of the firm. Pioneering an international approach, Ian established the Prague studio in 2008 while continuing to deliver a strong UK workload. In 2010 he was co-founder of the succession practice Bogle Flanagan Lawrence Silver.
Ian founded Bogle Architects in 2012 and the, multi award winning, practice is now active in over 35 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and South America across many different building typologies and sectors. Bogle Architects has gained a reputation for thinking out the box with examples of the studio’s work including the Research facility for most powerful lasers in the world (ELI Beamlines in Prague), the largest kindergarden in the world (The Early Learning Village in Singapore) for over 2100 Early Years aged children and the most significant mixed-use regeneration project of 70,000sqm in Porto. Ian has also recently designed the DUGA project in Belgrade.
Ian believes in education through encouragement and opportunity and is frequently invited to lecture on Architecture and Design across the international conference circuit.
Beyond the studio he is also a Trustee of the Jubilee Gardens Trust in Waterloo, London, Chair of Governors at More House School in Knightsbridge, London and recently a visiting end-point assesor in architecture at London South Bank University.
