Murray Fraser is Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK.

He has published extensively on design research, architectural history & theory, urbanism, post-colonialism and cultural studies. In 2008, his book on Architecture and the 'Special Relationship' won the Royal Institute of British Architects President’s Research Award and the Bruno Zevi Book Prize from the International Committee of Architectural Critics.

Other books include Design Research in Architecture (2013), now a standard work in the field, and he co-edits the UCL Press book series of the same title. More recently, he was General Editor for the 21st Edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, published in 2020, which was awarded the Colvin Prize by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

In 2018 he received the Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education, the RIBA’s highest teaching accolade.

Murray was previously editor of The Journal of Architecture, and he is now editor-in-chief for the ARENA Journal of Architectural Research (AJAR). He is a former Chair of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. As well as being a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he currently holds a similar role at Nanjing University and was also a 2022 Macgeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne.