Publications

TEN HOUSES by RICHARD MURPHY
by Breakfast Mission Publishing
Published 11 December, 2023

Ten houses chosen from over twenty-five years of designing
"Richard Murphy is an extremely accomplished magician as well as a multi award-winning architect. He is a wizard at making the most of a small site, and then by the crafty use of unseen mirrors he creates views that greatly expand it and introduce unexpected light and perspectives. His houses range from the small but richly tailored in tight urban locations, to much larger homes on open sites such as an airfield or empty coast." Robin Webster OBE RSA PPRIAS RIBA
Copies of the publication can be ordered online here.

OF ITS TIME AND OF ITS PLACE: THE WORK OF RICHARD MURPHY ARCHITECTS
by Richard Murphy and Richard Maccormac
Published 20 August, 2012

Formed in 1991, Richard Murphy Architects' early reputation was built on highly crafted and innovative domestic work in Edinburgh, Scotland. The practice has grown both in size and range of commissions, working across the UK and Ireland, in Europe and Sri Lanka and, more than two decades on, has amassed an extensive portfolio, designing buildings and spaces for the arts, education, housing, health, public and community use, as well as masterplanning. Richard Murphy Architects makes careful responses to complex contexts--whether insertion, extension or new-build, the practice's projects develop a dialogue between existing and new, intimacy and scale. large or small scale, public or private, each scheme harnesses plan, form, materials and detailing to produce a subtle, sensitively-considered result. Covering projects from Edinburgh's fruitmarket gallery to the British high commission in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from schemes for large housing association clients to the intimate scale of the Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre in Edinburgh, this survey of Richard Murphy Architects' work presents a series of fascinating projects, and charts the development of a key contemporary architectural practice from the late twentieth century into the twenty-first.

RICHARD MURPHY ARCHITECTS: TEN YEARS OF PRACTICE 
by Richard Weston
Published 29 September 2001

A major publication celebrating ten years of Richard Murphy Architects. All projects to date are fully illustrated in colour and architectural drawings with an illuminating essay by Richard Weston. A major publication celebrating ten years of Richard Murphy Architects. All projects to date are fully illustrated in colour and architectural drawings with an illuminating essay by Richard Weston.