Scotland’s most renowned conservation architect of recent times, Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, has died at the age of 96.
… a British conservation architect…
… an influential teacher…
Wikipedia writes:
Sir James Duncan Dunbar-Nasmith CBE FRIBA FRSE FRIAS (15 March 1927 – 18 March 2023) was a British conservation architect.
James Dunbar-Nasmith was born in Devon… He was educated at Lockers Park School, Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dunbar-Nasmith was best known as the architect of Sunninghill Park, the former home of The Duke of York, and Balmoral Estate architect. He was in professional practice as a partner in Law & Dunbar-Nasmith, architects, Edinburgh (since 1957), and Hilger, Law & Dunbar-Nasmith, architects, Wiesbaden (since 1993).
Dunbar-Nasmith was Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh College of Art, 1978–1988, and later Emeritus Professor at Heriot Watt University…
Scottish Construction Now writes:
Sir James studied architecture at Cambridge – where his tutors included Nikolaus Pevsner and Geoffrey Webb – and went on to become an influential teacher himself at Edinburgh College of Art and Heriot-Watt University, where he set up the exemplary conservation course. Alongside Graham Law he founded LDN Architects in 1957: the practice soon expanded and produced some of the most celebrated Scottish buildings of the 1970s including the seminal Eden Court and Pitlochry Festival Theatres and, in the 1990s, the Edinburgh Festival Theatre. The practice continues to thrive today…
Read the obituary in The Times (Restricted access)
