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Architecture and Design Scotland
27/07/2006
The Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport today announced the appointment of nine new members to Architecture and Design Scotland.
The new members are: Karen Cadell, Ric Russell OBE, Ali Mangera, Graham Ross, Roddy Langmuir, Lori McElroy, Pauline Gallacher, Dorian Wizniewski and Andrew Pinkerton.
Karen Cadell is an urban designer and is a partner of Cadell2, an architecture and urban design practice based in Linlithgow. She is also a part-time design tutor to architecture and landscape architecture students. Mrs Cadell was previously a director of Edward Cullinan Architects in London and has lengthy experience of delivering architectural and masterplanning commissions. Recent projects include the urban design frameworks for the Drum, Bo'ness; proposals for the Kirkcaldy culture campus and regeneration proposals for the Raploch, Stirling.
Professor Ric Russell OBE is an architect and is the senior partner of Nicoll Russell Studios in Dundee. Recent award wining work by the practice includes the Byre Theatre, St Andrews and the White Top Centre, Dundee. He also tutors architecture students and is an Honorary Professor at Heriot-Watt University and the University of Dundee. He was awarded an OBE for services to architecture in 2005, partly in recognition of his efforts and advice during the creation of Architecture and Design Scotland. Professor Russell was formerly a Commissioner of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland and served the last year of his term of office with Architecture and Design Scotland when it replaced the Commission. He applied to serve a new term of office in open competition with the other candidates.
Ali Mangera studied structural and environmental engineering at the Universities of Leeds and Pennsylvania before becoming an architect. He spent several years at Zaha Hadid Architects where he was principal architect for The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Rome. He was co-founder of Mangera Yvars Architects of London and Barcelona in 2001. Current projects include the London Markaz and Islamic Centre in West Ham; Cloud House in south-east London and an eco-scheme in Bow, London. The practice also works on a range of commercial and residential developments in Barcelona. Mangera Yvars Architects was selected for the 2005 '40 Under 40' exhibition of that showcased the work of 40 of the UK's most talented young architects.
Graham Ross is an architect and urban designer who studied in Edinburgh and Berlin. He has worked with Austin-Smith Lord Architects in Glasgow since 1998, having previously worked with Dignan Read Dewar Architects in Leith. He is a Registered Access Auditing Architect and an active member of the Urban Design Alliance Scotland. Key projects include the Public Launch Facility, Balloch; Glasgow airport station proposals; the Hospital Gate Masterplan, Clydebank and Granton Gateway Masterplan, Edinburgh.
Roddy Langmuir trained as an architect in Edinburgh and is now a Director of Edward Cullinan Architects in London. Key projects include several private houses in the highlands; Archaeolink Visitor Centre, Aberdeenshire; Royal Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre, Edinburgh; GAIA Renewable Energy Centre, Cornwall and the masterplan for Singapore Management University.
Lori McElroy an environmental engineer who manages the SUST: The Lighthouse on Sustainability project at The Lighthouse, Glasgow. She has worked in practice and research over the last 20 years to improve the energy and environmental performance of the built environment. Ms McElroy has advised widely on energy, environmental and sustainability issues through a variety of initiatives in Scotland and abroad. She is immediate Past Chairman of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers in Scotland.
Pauline Gallacher has qualifications in architecture and town and regional planning. She was Director of the Community Programme for Glasgow 1999 and is now a freelance consultant based in Neilston where she is involved in fostering community involvement in the regeneration of the town. She is also a part-time tutor of final year architecture students at the University of Strathclyde. Her book Everyday Spaces was published in 2005.
Dorian Wiszniewski, is an architect who is a Senior Lecturer in architecture at the University of Edinburgh and is also a partner in Wiszniewski Thomson Architects. He has previously worked for MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects, London and the Hurd Rolland Partnership, Edinburgh. Has also undertaken extensive research in Budapest, Istanbul and Shanghai.
Andrew Pinkerton is an architect and is a director of Keppie Design, Glasgow where he is responsible for business development and corporate communications. He previously worked with IBM in the development of computer aided design systems for architects. He is Secretary and Treasurer of Scottish Construction Industry Group, a member of the Modernising Construction Strategic Group and of Scottish Construction Forum. He is also Director and Treasurer of the Dunlop and District Community Company.
These appointments will be for four years and will run from July 10, 2006 to March 31, 2010.
These posts are part-time and not remunerated. They involve a time commitment of two days per month. None of the appointees hold any other Ministerial appointments.
Architecture and Design Scotland was established by the Scottish Executive 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 our quality of life, our economic growth and our built heritage. Architecture and Design Scotland is developing a wide proactive role in advocating the benefits of good design in the built environment to a range of organisations at national, regional and local level. It operates as a Company Limited by Guarantee funded directly by the Executive.
These Ministerial public 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 (if there is any to be declared) to be made public. None of the appointees have declared any political activity in the past five years.