Murray Fraser

In 2018 Fraser received the Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Fraser's academic writings include pioneering studies in post-colonialism, cultural studies, globalisation theory and design research. His early research looked into links between architecture and colonial policy in Ireland, with his doctorate being published in 1996 as John Bull's Other Homes: State Housing and British Policy in Ireland, 1883-1922. His next book, Architecture and the 'Special Relationship': The American Influence on Post-War British Architecture, won the 2008 President's Research Award from the RIBA as well as the 2008 Bruno Zevi Book Prize from the International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA) for best publication in the field that year. In 2013 he published an edited collection on Design Research in Architecture which is now a standard work on the topic. He also edits the UCL Press book series of that same title alongside his Bartlett colleague Jonathan Hill and Lesley Lokko of the African Futures Institute in Ghana. Fraser is General Editor for the 21st Edition of the retitled Sir Banister Fletcher's Global History of Architecture. As the most extensive world survey of the subject to date, it was awarded the 2020 Colvin Prize by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

• 'Public Building and Colonial Policy in Dublin, 1760–1800’, Architectural History, Vol. 28: 1985, pp. 102–112. • John Bull's Other Homes: State Housing and British Policy in Ireland, 1883–1922, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1996. • Architecture and the 'Special Relationship': The American Influence on Post-War British Architecture (with Joe Kerr), London/New York: Routledge, 2007. • Critical Architecture, edited with Jane Rendell et al, London/New York: Routledge, 2007. • Archigram Archival Project, an online resource created along with Kester Rattenbury, 2010. • Design Research in Architecture: An Overview, Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. • Architecture and Globalisation in the Persian Gulf Region, edited with Nasser Golzari, Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. • Sir Banister Fletcher's Global History of Architecture (21st Edition, 2 Vols), London: Bloomsbury, 2020. • Honorable mention for the Dartmouth Medal, 2020 • 'Gottfried Semper and the Globalising of the London Building World in the 1850s', in Michael Gnehm and Sonja Hildebrand (eds), Semper in London, Mendrisio/Zurich: Università della Svizzera italiana/ETH Zurich Press, 2021.