Aside from the seven RIBA award winning projects in the UK, the practice has also developed in collaboration many projects overseas on a larger scale such as a major urban regeneration proposal for Sligo, the new British Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia; a design template for a new National Park in Xiling mountains of Sichuan, China; an Archaeology museum in inner Mongolia, and most recently winning an international architectural competition in Chengdu for a new City Museum.
For the last fifteen years, in tandem with running a practice, he has been an active research contributor and Lecturer at the Mack. For fourteen years he has been teaching final-year students where the transition from academia to practice is at its most prescient and a direct and urgent relationship between practice and architectural teaching is played out through the Architectural Thesis.
Sutherland has been a visiting critic and lecturer throughout the UK, Europe, America and the Far East. Universities include Oslo; Versailles; Northeastern University, Boston, Mass; Edinburgh; Chongqing and the British School in, Rome. He was one of five International participants in Archiprix an international student workshop and one of the representatives of seven practices invited on a British Council Trade Mission and International Workshop in Riga.
