Graeme Nicholls
BSc(Hons) M.Arch ARB FRIAS RIBA
Director | Architect
graeme.nicholls@graemenicholls.com

Graeme is an award-winning architect, educator, and artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. Graeme trained at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, and North Carolina State University in the United States. After qualifying as an architect in 2005, Graeme worked in some of the top design-led practices in both Scotland and Australia, before going on to establish Graeme Nicholls Architects in 2016.

He also delivers architectural design studio teaching at the University of Strathclyde, allowing for a strong link between practice and research.

Graeme’s work has been exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, the V&A Dundee, and at the Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture and Design.

ARTICLES

• Glasgow Architecture. ‘Ashtree Road, Pollokshaws’ (Jul 2019)

• Divisare. ‘Ashtree Road’ (Jul 2019)Architects Journal.

• 'Building study: Glasgow flats by Graeme Nicholls Architects' (Jul 2019)Architects Journal.

• 'New practice: Graeme Nicholls Architects' (Sep 2016)Architects Journal.

• 'Glasgow's young guns defy Scottish gloom' (Feb 2017)Urban Realm.

• 'Pollokshaws housing plans scrub up well' (Jan 2017)

AWARDS

• Prospect Magazine’s “Rising Star” (Autumn 2008)

• Alexander “Greek” Thomson Travelling Scholarship (2007)

• Building Design magazine’s ‘Class of 2003’

• Arthur Leslie Hamilton Prize (2003)

• Glasgow Institute of Architects Award (2003)

• RIBA President’s Medal nominee (2003)

• RIAS Silver Medal nominee (2003)

• Glasgow Institute of Architects Award (2003)

• Professor Charles Gourlay Memorial Prize (2001)

• Best Design Thesis Strathclyde University (2001)