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Architecture and Design Scotland

6 May 2009 10:18 AM

Culture Minister Michael Russell has announced the re-appointment of 15 members to the Board of Architecture and Design Scotland.

The re-appointed members are:

  • Raymond Young CBE (Chair) - An architect and former senior member of staff of Scottish Homes, Mr Young has wide experience of community housing associations and is now active as a housing and regeneration consultant. He has served as a member of the UK Sustainable Development Commission and is a Non-Executive Director of Historic Scotland, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow's Department of Urban Studies and a visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde.
  • Professor Brain Evans (Deputy Chair) - An urban designer and planner, and a partner in one of the UK's leading urban and landscape design practices, Gillespies. From 1998 until 2004, he was artistic professor of urban design at Chalmers University School of Architecture, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Karen Anderson - Architect and a founding partner of Anderson, Bell Christie Architects, Glasgow.
  • Alison Blamire - Co-founder of ARCADE Architects, Edinburgh in 1981 and now leader of its design team.
  • Margaret Hickish - Principal Access Officer, Olympic Delivery Authority, London.
  • Eelco Hooftman - Founding partner of GROSS. MAX. Landscape Architects and a Reader at Edinburgh College of Art.
  • Gareth Hoskins - Principal, Gareth Hoskins Architects, Glasgow since 1998.
  • John Irvine - Chartered Surveyor and Board member of the Grosvenor property company, with responsibility for its development activity outside London.
  • Rob Joiner - Director, Reidvale and Molendinar Housing Associations, Glasgow.
  • Eleanor McAllister OBE - Economist, town planner and Managing Director of Clydebank Re-built urban regeneration company.
  • Terry Mackie - Architect with NHS Grampian for many years and now Director of the Peacock Visual Arts Centre, Aberdeen.
  • Steven Spier - President of the HafenCity University, Hamburg and previously Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde.
  • Paul Stallan - European Design Director of RMJM, one of the largest architecture practices with headquarters in Scotland.
  • Stephen Tucker - Director (Scotland) of Urban Design and Regeneration for Turley Associates, and previously instrumental in the evolution of the Raploch urban regeneration company.
  • Brian Veitch - Chartered civil and structural engineer, and a Director of Arup, the worldwide design and engineering consultancy.

None of the re-appointees hold other Ministerial appointments.

These reappointments will be for one year and will run from April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010.

These posts are part-time and are not remunerated. There is a time commitment of up to 3 days per month for the Chair and up to two days a month for other members.

Architecture and Design Scotland was established by Scottish Ministers in April 2005 as the national champion for good architecture, design and planning in the built environment. The principal aim of the body is to inspire better quality in design and architecture so that Scotland's built environment contributes in a positive way to Ministers' strategic objectives and the Scottish Government's National Outcomes. Architecture and Design Scotland operates as a Company Limited by Guarantee, funded directly by the Scottish Government.

Members have been re-appointed for one year, while Ministers finalise arrangements to revise the Board structure as recommended in the recent review of the body which was published on April 28.

These re-appointments were made in accordance with the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland's Code of Practice.

All appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. However, in accordance with the original Nolan recommendations, there is a requirement for appointees' political activity within the last five years (if there is any to be declared) to be made public.

Eleanor McAllister is a member of the Labour Party, has made a recordable donation to the Party and has canvassed on behalf of the party, or helped at an election, in the last five years.

No other re-appointee declared any political activity in the last five years.

Related Information

http://www.ads.org.uk/

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/planning/National-Planning-Policy/themes/architecture/AandDSpfmr