Gordon Pringle was born on 29 May 1900 and studied at the University of Cambridge. He qualified as an architect in the mid-1920s and subsequently practised as an architect in London. For a period he was either a partner or collaborated with Frederick Etchells (1886-1973).
Pringle was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1926. His address was given as 49 Duckett Road, Harringay, London in 1901; 25 Coolhurst Road, Crouch End, London in 1911 and 1918; 1A Kensington Place, London in 1927; 33 Markham Street, London in 1930; 1 Lincoln's Inn Field, London in 1935; 38 Paddington St, St. Marylebone, London and 42 Bloomsbury Square, London in 1939; and 36 Layton Lane, Shaftsbury, Dorset in 1973. He died in Shaftsbury, Dorset on 15 September 1973
A house in Vera Avenue, Grange Park, Middlesex (1936); extension of the premises of Robert Pringle & Son, wholesale jewellers in Clerkenwell Road, Clerkenwell, London (1938); and conversion of 1 Upper Brook Street, London into flats (1955)