Architecture + Design Scotland

Raymond Young is an architect and a former senior member of staff of Scottish Homes who is based in rural Perthshire. He was one of the founder members of ASSIST, the community architecture practice that pioneered both tenement rehabilitation and community based housing associations in Glasgow. He was a member of the UK Sustainable Development Commission from 2000-2004.

He has worked with both the Housing Corporation and Scottish Homes, latterly as Director of Research and Innovation. Since 1997 he has run a part-time regeneration consultancy with clients in the UK and Denmark from a sustainable straw bale office in Perthshire. He is non-executive Board member of Historic Scotland, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, and a visiting professor at the Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde, and Chair of the Rural Housing Service.

Brian Evans is an urban designer and planner with 30 years experience of contributing to strategy development, masterplanning and design. Brian is currently a partner of Gillespies, the multidisciplinary design practice and his experience includes work in the Scottish cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee as well as London, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield and Belfast and collaborative work in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Oslo, Ålesund (Norway), Barcelona, Milan, Moscow, St Petersburg, Istanbul, Budapest and Bucharest.

From1998 through 2004, Brian Evans was Artistic Professor of Urban Design at the School of Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden where he was involved in developing the Urban Laboratory - a partnership development involving city government, universities and the private sector.

Brian plays a leading role in urban affairs in the UK. As well as being appointed as Deputy Chair of A+DS in 2005 he helped to co-found The Academy of Urbanism - a new body established to promote the qualities of good Urbanism throughout the British and Irish Islands; he writes and speaks extensively at events throughout the UK and Europe and recently collaborated with the University of Venice in a pan-European dialogue about the future of the landscape profession in Europe.

Eleanor is both an economist and a town planner and has worked for over 20 years in the west of Scotland using both these disciplines in developing and implementing regeneration projects.

In the 80s, Eleanor was Director of the Glasgow Building's Preservation Trust; in the 90s she was the Project Manager for Strathclyde Region's Capital Projects in areas of deprivation; followed by three years as Depute Director of the Glasgow 1999 Festival Company. She was Head of Economic and Social Initiatives for Glasgow City Council from 1999 to 2002.

In June 2002, Eleanor became the Managing Director of Clydebank re-built, subsequently designated as one of three ‘Pathfinder' urban regeneration companies by the Scottish Executive in 2004. She is responsible for the masterplanning and development of 450 acres of brownfield and industrial riverside and the existing commercial areas in Clydebank's Town centre.

She has been client representative for a number of award winning projects: The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City; the Homes for the Future project on Glasgow Green; and more recently, three Scottish Design awards and a RIBA award for workshops and public realm works in Clydebank.

John Irvine is a Board member of Grosvenor, with responsibility for the company's development activity outside London.  Projects include retail led mixed use schemes in Liverpool, Cambridge and Dublin. In Scotland his work is more focussed on office and residential development.  John chairs the British Council of Offices Awards panel for Scotland.

Paul Stallan is the European Design Director for RMJM. RMJM have offices in both Edinburgh and Glasgow together with offices in London, New York and Hong Kong. Paul received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Strathclyde University in 1988. In recognition of his architectural and urban design skills he was awarded a Gold Medal for Architecture by the Royal Scottish Academy 1999 Paul is also committed to the promotion of the visual arts and was chairman of Visual Arts Projects, Glasgow, for 6 years.  He served as a Commissioner for RFACS. Paul was shortlisted as Scottish Architect of the Year in 1999 and awarded this title again in 2005 by the Scottish design community.

In his present position Paul has been a lead designer on a range of prestigious projects of varying scale in Scotland; including the Tron Theatre redevelopment in Glasgow; Glasgow's Commonwealth Games Village for 2014; Dumfries Royal Theatre; a new landmark campus and faculty building for North Glasgow College; and a new education faculty at Glasgow University.  Paul is also active in master planning mixed use and residential projects like the next high rise phase of Glasgow Harbour; the ambitious mixed use development at Glasgow's Custom House Quay in partnership with the City Council; together with master plan work in Oban, Fort William, Portree, Falkirk and Edinburgh.

Paul is also working on prominent commercial projects outside Scotland in the City of London and in New York, and has actively led design initiatives in Kazakhstan and Russia.

Paul's work with RMJM has helped to secure the practice awards at the; Scottish Design Awards, the RIAS Dynamic Places Award, Saltire Award, Scottish Regeneration Supreme Awards, Glasgow Institute of Architects Design Awards, Civic Trust Award Commendations and the Scottish Architectural Innovation Award.

In terms of recent academic activities; Paul was a part-time design tutor, a lecturer on design methodology and more recently an external examiner at Strathclyde University; and an invited design critic at: Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow. He is also been an external examiner at Dundee and Newcastle Universities.

He was co-founding Partner of Nicoll Russell Studios in 1982.

As senior "design" Partner within Nicoll Russell Studios he has gained wide ranging experience in housing, commercial, industrial and arts buildings as well as being a specialist in contextual, environmental and interior design.  He has had direct responsibility for several RIBA Award-winning buildings, e.g. Dundee Repertory Theatre, The TSB Bank in St Andrews, the Grianan Building in Dundee Technology Park, Scrimgeour's Corner, Housing Development, Crieff, The Byre Theatre of St Andrews and The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance at Dundee College, known as 'The Space'.  Also acknowledged by 4 prestigious architectural awards is the "experimental" Whitetops Foundation Centre, a building at Dundee University for adults with profound disabilities.  Recently Ric has been involved in the development of an Lanntair Arts Centre and Theatre, Stornoway.

He has collaborated with Engineers on many projects with landscape and civil engineering content including a series of motorway bridge projects in Scotland, England and Ireland and the Beckton Gateway, a major bridge for London Docklands.  He was responsible for the innovative concept for the Falkirk Wheel which was the re-linkage of the Union and Forth/Clyde Canals involving the construction of the unique mechanised boat lift, aqueduct and tunnel combination negotiating a 35 metre level change.

He has had a continued involvement with many Schools of Architecture including all those in Scotland, in England and N Ireland. He has addressed the RIAS Convention on several occasions and delivered lectures to a wide ranging audience of professional and lay people.

In 1996 he was elected as an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy.  In 1998 he was granted Honorary Professorships at Heriot Watt University School of Architecture and at Dundee University Faculty of Architecture, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. He was awarded an OBE for services to architecture in 2005.

Currently Ric is on the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland Student Awards Committee and is a member of the Saltire Housing Design Panel.  He has been on the Adjudicating Panel of several Architectural Competitions; and served as a Commissioner for RFACS from 1998 to 2005.

Rob was the Chairman of Glasgow Building Preservation Trust from 1988 till 2001.

He was a member of the City of Architecture and Design 1999 Steering Committee and Convenor of the Community Empowerment Committee during the preparation of the bid for the title.

Rob has lectured on architecture and housing at Strathclyde University; Glasgow University; the Mackintosh School of Architecture; the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino; and La Terza Universita' di Roma.

Rob is a board member of the Lighthous, he has been a member of the Housing Client Forum of the Royal Institute of British Architects, is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland and the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Ali is Principal of Mangera Yvars Architects in practice in London and Barcelona but currently also working in the Middle East.  He has previously worked with Zaha Hadid where he was principal architect for The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Rome.

His current projects include Masterplanning, residential and hotel projects in Abu Dhabi, a mixed use Islamic Community project in North London and a community sports centre in The Thames Gateway.  The Practice is also working on a broad range of commercial and residential developments at various scales in Barcelona.

Alison co-founded ARCADE Architects in 1981 and now leads their design team. Over the years she has developed a strong track record in producing imaginative designs for new build and the renovation of existing buildings, both in the public and private sectors.

Recent successes include winning awards at the Scottish Design Awards 2003, the Saltire Housing Design Awards 2003 and the Dynamic Places Awards 2003 and reaching the final shortlist for the RIAS Award for Architecture for the Best Building in Scotland 2003.

A native of Edinburgh, Alison is a graduate of the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow and has been a registered architect since 1978.  After graduating MArch from the University of Oregon, USA in 1980, she was invited to return to the Mackintosh as a Lecturer in Architectural Design. She taught there part-time until 2002, in parallel with her work in practice. In 1986 she was invited to be a Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon as well as a part-time Tutor in Architectural Design at the University of Edinburgh.

She sat on the Scottish Office Building Standards Advisory Committee Research Sub-committee (BSAC/R) from 1993 - 1997. She joined the Panel of Assessors for the Saltire Society Housing Design Awards in 1998 and is currently Vice-Chair of the Panel. She has been an Advisory Board Member of Architecture + Design Scotland since 2005.

Andrew qualified as an architect over 25 years ago, and in a varied career in, construction, IT, and education sectors he has accumulated a unique combination of architectural design, project management, and business consultancy experience.

He is currently a Director of Keppie Design Ltd where his responsibilities are focussed on business management issues - these include development of CSR policies, issues and opportunities emerging from industry culture changes, the effective application of advanced IT capabilities, and structured marketing and PR processes.

In the late 1990's he served for 2 years as Director of the Centre for the Built Environment, where his role included setting up and managing the Centre within the overall objective of strengthening the links between the construction sector and academic community in the West of Scotland.     Prior to that he worked in the marketing and development of CAD software with IBM.

Andrew brings to A+DS a broad awareness of issues affecting the design and construction sector in Scotland.   Over the years he has participated actively in various industry initiatives, committess, and task groups, and currently serves as a member of the Scottish Construction Forum.

In his local community he is also active in planning and rural regeneration issues through his involvement in Dunlop's Community Council and Community Company

Brian Veitch is a chartered civil and structural engineer.  He is a director of Arup, the major design and engineering consultancy practice with offices around the world.  For more than 30 years he has worked closely with architects, urban designers and others involved in planning, designing and delivering the built environment - collaborating on a wide range of building, public realm and civil engineering projects, many of which have received awards for the quality of their design and execution.

Brian has interests in Scottish economic affairs, architecture, design and education.  He is a director and board member of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry and a member of the Scottish Parliament Business Exchange.  He is a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow, and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Architecture and Building Science at the University of Strathclyde from 2002 until 2006.  He is a member of industrial liaison boards at University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde and University of Paisley.

A registered architect in the UK since 1986; for MJP Architects was architect for the Fitzwilliam College Chapel, Cambridge (1988-93), Cable and Wireless Telecommunications College, Coventry (1989-93), and Southwark Intermediate Concourse, Jubilee Line, London (1992-94); took up an academic post with The University of Edinburgh in 1995; co-founded the partnership Wiszniewski Thomson Architects in 1996; in 2000/1, as Team Leader for "The Company of Dancers", won first prize in the UIA Urban Design competition for ‘Masques of The City - Brooklyn Heights Promenade, New York'; as Wiszniewski Thomson Architects won the Royal Scottish Academy Gold Medal for Architecture in 2006 for the ‘Water House', Crieff; academic papers have been published in China, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Israel, Spain, Turkey, UK, and USA with core interests being the architectural-political-philosophical overlap on issues of representation and production; the Master of Architecture Degree Programme, Architecture and Urban Design, "Architecture in Borderland", looking specifically at Borderlands in Shanghai, Istanbul and Budapest.  Design and Theory are parallel but intersecting practices.

Founding partner of GROSS. MAX. Landscape Architects and Reader at Edinburgh College of Art, Eelco integrates theory and practice of landscape architecture in an extensive output of (international) projects and award winning competition designs. He has been working on a variety of projects in London including the Royal Festival Hall, Potters Field Park (adjacent to Tower Bridge) and Brixton Town Square.  Abroad Eelco collaborates on a range of projects with Zaha Hahid Architects including the new BMW plant in Leipzig, a High Speed Railway station in Naples and an urban master plan for 64 hectares of former dockland along the river Nervion in Bilbao.  Other projects include Rottenrow Gardens in Glasgow; the external spaces of the new Bullring in Birmingham; Lyric Square in Hammersmith, London; and a series of streetscapes commissioned by the Corporation of London.   Eelco has in recent years received three Art for Architecture Awards by the Royal Society of Arts, London. Works and writings by Eelco Hooftman are widely published in (international) press and he regularly contributes to conferences and exhibitions.

Eelco Hooftman / GROSS. MAX. was awarded the 2006  European Landscape Award by Topos the international review of landscape architecture and urban design.

The practice's work has been widely published and exhibited, both within the UK and abroad, with the practice being featured most recently in major exhibitions in London, Parma and New York.  Since setting up, the practice has grown to a team of 37, led by Gareth and a group of 6 other directors.

Now 40, Gareth has won many national awards including ‘UK Health Architect of the Year' at the Building Design Awards 2006; the AJ/Corus '40 under 40' in 2005; the Scottish Design Awards ‘Young Architect of the Year' and ‘UK Young Architectural Practice of the Year' at the Building Awards, both in 2000.

Gareth is also an RIBA Advisor and Awards Assessor, Director of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society and contributor on various publications including, most recently as co-author of Design for Dementia for The Oxford University Press.

Graham is a Director of Austin-Smith Lord LLP. He is an architect and urban designer based in Glasgow and involved in projects throughout the UK and Ireland.

He studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Technische Universitat Berlin and has a Masters in Architecture and an MSc in Urban Design. He is on the RIAS Register of Access Auditing Architects and is a member of the Building Environment Forum Scotland Urban Design Working Group and GIA Council.  Key projects include the Public Launch Facility, Balloch; Glasgow airport station proposals for GARL; proposals for new housing at Garnethill in central Glasgow for Charing Cross Housing Association/Ogilvie Homes; the Hospital Gate Masterplan for Clydebank Re-built; Main Campus Library Extension for University of Dundee. Graham has won three Scottish Design Awards.

Karen is an architect and founding partner of Anderson Bell Christie, Glasgow.  She has practised since qualifying from the Mackintosh School of Architecture in 1984, was previously a Commissioner of RFACS and taught in the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde.  She is Convenor of the Saltire Housing Design Awards Panel.

Since forming in 1991 - the practice was chosen by the Architecture Foundation as one of the UK's first ‘New Architects' -  Anderson Bell Christie has worked on a large number of re-generation and community driven projects in the west of Scotland. The practice was recently shortlisted last year as Architect of the Year in four categories: Masterplanning, Residential (Private and Public) and Education. Karen has significant experience in social housing and community involvement in re-development, working on Masterplanning and Urban& Rural Design Guidance in areas as diverse as Raploch, Stirling; the Isle of Gigha; Argyll and Bute; and North Lanarkshire.  Anderson Bell Christie is now working on re-generation, education and care related projects and has completed buildings such as Auchterarder Community School and Erskine Mains Care Home. More recent projects include private residential development at Queen Elizabeth Square, in the Gorbals; Tradeston in Glasgow and the Scottish National Epilepsy Centre. 

Born in Congleton, Cheshire in 1965.  Educated in architecture at Brighton and in urban design at Westminster.  Prior to setting up Cadell² in 2001 she worked at Edward Cullinan Architects in London and Bennetts Associates in Edinburgh.

Karen, working with the urban regeneration company PARC Craigmillar, has recently been responsible for preparing a masterplan and design guide for Greendykes North area of Craigmillar.  This included strategic proposals as well as the innovative design of the streetscape and the shared spaces. 

Other current projects include urban design frameworks for Dornoch in Sutherland, Hopeman in Morayshire and a masterplan for North West Portobello.

Within A+DS Karen is a member of the Design Review committee as well as planning and housing sub-committees.

Karen is a member of the PARC Craigmillar Design Review Panel and has been a design tutor at Edinburgh University (architecture) and Edinburgh College of Art (landscape architecture).  She is also a judge for the Designing Places Student Awards.

Lori has a degree in Environmental Engineering and a Masters in Design Philosophy.  She has worked in practice and research field for over 20 years, with the aim of improving the energy and environmental performance of the built environment through the provision of wide ranging support and advice to the construction industry and its clients through numerous government funded initiatives.  These projects include the acclaimed DTi funded Energy Design Advice Scheme, the Scottish Executive and ERDF funded Scottish Energy Systems Group.  Lori now directs the Sust. project on sustainability, for the Architecture Policy Unit, at The Lighthouse in Glasgow.  She is the immediate Past Chairman of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (Scottish Region), and a Board Member of the International Building Simulation Association.

Margaret is Head of Buro Happold's Disability Design Consultancy; previously a Commissioner with RFACS; and Convenor of the Mobility and Access Committee for Scotland from 2002 till end of 2004.

Between 1995 and 1997 Margaret was National President of the Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists; vice chair of Disability Alliance; and was a Woman of the Year in 1997.

Margaret has extensive experience in advising on access for disabled people to the built and natural environment including advising on access to the Scottish Parliament building. She has been invited to speak at numerous national and international conferences on the opportunities for design arising from the DDA.

Pauline Gallacher is a freelance consultant based in Neilston.  She has qualifications in architecture and town and regional planning, and has long experience of working with communities and an understanding of how the built environment looks to non-professionals. She is particularly interested in the community-led regeneration of small towns with place-making as the central focus, and in this context has led the establishment of Neilston Development Trust as a progression of the interests developed during her NESTA fellowship.

Pauline was Director of the Community Programme for Glasgow 1999 and is involved in the ‘Sustainable Designs on You' project, part of the SUST programme at The Lighthouse.  Pauline has recently worked at the Lighthouse as temporary director of the Access to Architecture programme; is a Committee member of Molendinar Park Housing Association and a member of the National Culture Planning Steering Group.  Published book ‘Everyday Spaces' (2005).

Roddy is a senior architect/director with Edward Cullinan Architects in London. He was trained at the University of Edinburgh and has considerable experience of working in Scotland, including the design of a well-regarded house for his father in Speyside. He has worked on a range of university projects at all scales, and on public buildings in the UK and abroad. Key project experiences include the Masterplan for the Morrison Street. Goods Yard for Argent/Edinburgh Council; public projects at Archaeolink in Aberdeenshire, the Stonehenge Visitors' Centre, and the GAIA Renewable Energy Centre, Cornwall; and education work on the new Mathematics Faculty at Cambridge University, and a city centre Masterplan for Singapore Management University.

Currently Roddy is working on a variety of projects including the Royal Botanic Gardens Gateway, Edinburgh; a Health and Community centre, mixed use project in Stonebridge; and a new visitor centre to the ancient Nabataean city of Petra in Jordan.

Roddy has taught and lectured widely, currently sitting as external examiner to Nottingham University. He has a broad experience of sustainable, low energy design and is a board member of the Timber Research and Development Association (TRADA).

Stephen Tucker BA (Hons) Town Planning, MSc Urban Design is Turley Associates Director of Urban Design and Regeneration in Scotland.

At the outset of his career Stephen worked with Glasgow City Council and Stirling Council as a planner and urban designer. Between 2001 and 2005, Stephen, was instrumental in the evolution of the Raploch Urban Regeneration Company, from an early idea through to a £135 million public private partnership. Stephen commissioned and managed the masterplan process and with support from Anderson Bell Christie produced the Raploch Design Guide, winner of the RTPI Quality in Development Plans Award in 2004.

In 2006 Stephen joined Glasgow Housing Association as Partnerhsip Manager for New Communities. Stephen simultaneously managed project teams preparing regeneration masterplans and options appraisals for eight of Glasgow's most deprived neighbourhoods. While with Glasgow Housing Association, Stephen played a leading role in developing a programme approach to the regeneration of these areas that bracketed them together in a £1.5 billion public private partnership.

Stephen joined Turley Associates in early 2007 and since that time has led a variety of master planning projects across Scotland including; the Planning Framework for Dalmarnock and the National Indoor Sports Arena, the Baillieston Broomhouse and Carmyle Community Growth Area, Inverkip Power Station redevelopment and conceptual master plans for a variety of strategic land releases across Scotland.

Stephen worked extensively with the Scottish Government on Designing Places, PAN 67 Housing Design and PAN 76 Residential Street Design. Stephen is currently leading on Turley Associates commission for the Improvement Service to provide training to Scottish Local Authorities on masterplanning, design guidance and design coding.

Professor Steven Spier, Hon. FRIAS, is President (Principal and Vice-Chancellor) of the HafenCity University, Hamburg a specialist university--with architecture, civil engineering geomatics and urban planning, founded in January 2006 to achieve excellence in teaching and research in the development of the built environment.

He was previously Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he is currently a Visiting Professor. He researches contemporary European architecture and the city, and is the author of Swiss Made. He also publishes on spatial and collaborative issues in the choreography of William Forsythe and is a board member of Scottish Ballet. He teaches design as well as history and theory.

He has a BA in philosophy from Haverford College and worked in film production and book publishing before gaining a Master of Architecture from SCI-Arc in 1993. He has practiced in Los Angeles and Berlin, and as an educator has worked and lived in Zurich, London and Glasgow. He was born in Montreal in 1959.