Gareth trained as an architect at the Glasgow School of Art and at Florence University. Following six years as an associate with Penoyre and Prasad in London, Gareth set up Gareth Hoskins Architects in Glasgow in 1998 and through a series of major competition wins has built one of the leading design practices in the UK, producing creative, innovative, award-winning buildings and environments. Gareth’s architectural experience covers a wide range, from large scale regeneration and commercial projects to public sector projects, and from community and healthcare to major cultural and heritage initiatives.

As a leading figure in the UK architectural industry, Gareth is much in demand as a speaker at architectural conferences and is a contributor to a number of publications and architectural policy documents. He is an advisor to the Royal Institute of British Architects, a design panel member of the Scottish Government’s design ‘watchdog’ Architecture and Design Scotland, and between 2006 and 2010 held the post of the Scottish Government’s National Healthcare Design Champion. Gareth won UK Young Architect of the Year in 2000, UK Architect of the Year in 2006 and Scottish Architect of the Year in 2009. In 2008 Gareth was made a Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, was elected to the Royal Scottish Academy in 2009 and was awarded an OBE for Services to Architecture in 2010.