John McAslan founded John McAslan + Partners in 1996, having previously trained with Cambridge Seven Associates in Boston, and Richard Rogers in London, before becoming co-principal of Troughton McAslan in 1984.

The projects he has led have been widely published, and the practice's architecture has generated monographs by Thames & Hudson, the Architectural Review, and Merrell.

John McAslan + Partners has won over 50 international design awards, and the practice has been Architect of the Year on four occasions, most recently in 2009.

McAslan has taught extensively, been an awards assessor, and personally oversees the RIBA/ICE McAslan Fund, which supports collaborative projects by students and recent graduates in Britain and overseas.

Among McAslan's best-known architectural projects are the transformation of the Roundhouse, London, the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill, headquarters complexes for Max Mara in Italy and Yapi Kredi bank in Turkey and major transport and infrastructure schemes in the UK.