Adam Caruso was born in Montreal and studied architecture at McGill University. He established Caruso St John Architects with Peter St John in 1990. The practice has offices in London and Zurich and has built throughout Europe, undertaking projects that range in scale from major urban developments and cultural projects to intricate interventions in complex historic settings. Caruso St John won the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2016 for the Newport Street Gallery and represented Britain at the 2018 Venice Biennale.

With Helen Thomas he edited, for gta Verlag, the four-volume series ‘The Limits of Modernism – a Forgotten Generation of European Architects’, on the work of Fernand Pouillon, Asnago Vender, Rudolf Schwarz and Hopkins Architects. Since 2011 Adam Caruso has been Professor of Architecture and Construction at the ETH Zurich.