THE DUNDEE CONSERVATION LECTURES
ARRANGED
BY
Dundee University
Centre for Conservation and Urban Studies
The
Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland Tayside and East Fife Group
DUNDEE HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT TRUST
Lecture Theatre (Room 5013), Level 5, Matthew Building, Duncan of Jordanstone College, 13 Perth Road, Dundee.
THE DUNDEE
CONSERVATION LECTURES
Looking ahead: (looking
back see below)
25th November 2008
THE WORK OF THE CONSERVATION ARCHITECT
Including: The particular problems of the Disability
Discrimination Act and the need for risk assessment
Robin Kent, Conservation Accredited Architect
2nd December 2008
BALMORALITY AND THE CREATION OF COMFORTABLE SCOTTISH
HOMES
Balmoral
Architecture, Adultery and the Aftermath
Taming the Baronial
Simon Green, Architectural Historian, RCAHMS
20th January 2009
125 YEARS OF ARCHITECTURE ON TAYSIDE
Victorian Dundee and 125 years of the Dundee Institute
of Architects
Charles McKean, Professor of Scottish Architectural History, University
of Dundee (session chair)
Four Tayside Practices
Ged Young (President of DIA), AIM, Professor Ric Russell, Nicoll Russell
Studios; Fred Stephen, James F Stephen Architects; James Pask,
Pask & Pask
27th January 2009
ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Roger Curtis, Historic Scotland
Dr Gerry White, Crichton Carbon Centre
Nicholas Heath, GAIA
3rd February 2009
HISTORIC HOUSES AND THEIR OWNERS
Culzean – A Robert Adam Masterpiece
Michael Moss, Research Professor in Archival Studies, University of Glasgow
10th February 2009
REGENERATION AND NEW COMMUNITIES
Ed Taylor, Representative in Scotland for The Prince’s Foundation for the
Built Environment
24th February2009
FAVOURITE BUILDINGS
Stirling Tolbooth
and Auchenleck House
James Simpson, Simpson & Brown Architects
3rd March 2009
INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE
Berlin's Museums - Heritage &
Innovation
Dr Peter Burman, Professor of Cultural
Management, Brandenburgische Technische
Universität Cottbus
10th March 2009
TRADITIONAL MATERIALS
Brickwork: Use and Conservation
Gerard Lynch
17th March 2009
SCOTTISH HOUSES AND GARDENS
From the Archives of Country Life
Lost Houses of Scotland
Ian Gow, Chief Curator, The
National Trust for Scotland
THE DUNDEE CONSERVATION
LECTURES
Looking back -latest first:
18th November 2008
CONSERVING SCOTLAND'S RURAL IDENTITY
Conservation Issues: current challenges
Lessons from the Caithness Redundant Buildings Inventory
Andrew Wright, Chartered Architect and Heritage Consultant
11th November 2008
TRADITIONAL MATERIALS
Building in earth: conservation and culture
Tom Morton, Arc Architects
New build
Becky Little, Little and Davie Construction
28th October 2008
URBAN DESIGN
Architecture and Design Scotland
Sebastian Tombs, Architecture and Design Scotland
21st October 2008
SHOPFRONTS
Scotland's Retail Legacy:
Past, Present and Protecting its Future
Lindsay Lennie, Research Fellow, Historic Scotland
Shopfront Design, Construction and
Conservation - the use of Iron and Other Metals
Ali Davey, Project Manager, Historic Scotland
14th October 2008
CONSERVATION PRESERVATION AND RENEWAL
The work of SAVE and Edinburgh World Heritage Trust
Adam Wilkinson, Director, Edinburgh World Heritage Trust
7th October 2008
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
The recent work of Richard Murphy Architects
Richard Murphy, Richard Murphy Architects
11th March 2008
HISTORIC GARDENS
Exbury Gardens - heaven with the gates open
Irish Gardens - gardening with the gulf stream
John Anderson, Horticulturalist and Head Gardener Exbury Gardens
4th March 2008
HERITAGE AND THE COMMUNITY
Public perceptions of heritage
Judy Ling Wong OBE Director, Black
Environment Network
Discover heritage
Taja Sidhu,
Project Officer, Black Environment Network
26th February 2008
FAVOURITE BUILDINGS
Dumfries House – a
golden opportunity?
St Paul's Cathedral – the continuing
phoenix
Dr Peter Burman
MBE Director of Conservation & Property Services, NTS 2003/07 Professor of
Cultural Heritage Management, Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Cottbus, Germany & Chairman, St Paul’s Cathedral Fabric
Advisory Committee
19th February 2008
MATERIALS
Historic buildings within the
changing climate
Karen Nicols,
Historic Scotland
Historic paint finishes
Colin Mitchell-Rose, Consultant on
Traditional Paint
5th February 2008
PUBLIC HISTORY OF THE SEASIDE
The English seaside resort: history,
heritage and regeneration
Reputation and regeneration: history
and heritage in the re-making of Blackpool
John K Walton, Professor of Social
History, Leeds Metropolitan University
29th January 2008
CONSERVATION ACROSS EUROPE
The evolution of urban conservation strategies in Europe in the 20th century
Case study: The reconstruction of Dresden after 1945
Dr John Soan, London South Bank University
22nd January
MATERIALS
A future for stone in Scotland
Colin Tennant, Director, The Scottish Stone Liaison Group
Edinburgh’s stone paving
Dr Ewan Hyslop,
British Geological Survey
15th January 2008
CONSERVATION IN THE AMERICAS
An isolated case: cultural heritage
conservation on the island of Cuba
Dr Anne Thomas-Cumming, Lecturer, University of Dundee
Savannah and Tituville:
a contrast in style
Carrie Anderson, Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh University
27th November 2007
THE CONSERVATION OFFICER’S PERSPECTIVE
From cathedrals to prisons cells,
building conservation in
southwest England
Tackling historic buildings at risk
David Clark, Conservation Team
Leader, Mendip Council
20th November 2007
MAINTENANCE OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS
European models of preventative maintenance
Proposals for UK-wide schemes of maintenance
Harriet Devlin, The Ironbridge
Institute
6th November 2007
THE GRAND TOUR
A history of the phenomenon of Grand
Tour and its Tourists, their activities and their legacy, with particular
relevance to Scotland
Dr Patricia Andrew, University of
Edinburgh/Independent research and heritage consultant
Prelude and Pattern: The remarkable
Grand Tour of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik
Dr Iain Gordon Brown, National
Library of Scotland
30th October 2007
HERITAGE LED REGENERATION
Conservation in Liverpool - Maritime Mercantile City World
Heritage Site
John Hinchliffe,
World Heritage Officer, Liverpool City Council
23rd October 2007
HISTORIC SCOTLAND
Listing - How do they do it?
Dr Deborah Mays
Getting the message across and quiz
Isla Macleod
The Dictionary of Scottish
Architects project: past present and future
Yvonne Hillyard
16th October 2007
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
Simpson and Brown’s contemporary
buildings
Jenny Humphreys, Associate, Simpson
and Brown, Architects
Page and Park’s recent projects
Karen Nugent, Associate, Page and
Park, Architects
THE DUNDEE
CONSERVATION LECTURES
13th March 2007
GARDENS OF SCOTLAND
The Scottish gardener
Suki Urquhart, author,
gardener and garden designer
Garden and plant photography
Ray Cox, horticultural photographer
The gardens at Glendoick
and woodland gardening
Ken Cox, author and plant collector
6th March 2007
GRAVEYARDS
‘Mair decent polecie’ - Dundee from kirkyard to
graveyard
Iain Flett, City
Archivist, Dundee City Council
A Pleasure Ground of Graves :
The Garden Cemetery Movement in Scotland
Christopher Dingwall,
Historic Landscape Consultant
27th February 2007
INTERIORS
New Challenges – Recreating Lorimer
at Hill of Tarvit and Kellie Castle
The challenge of recreating relatively modern
historic interiors
Ian Gow, Curator, The National Trust for Scotland
20th February 2007
NEW USES FOR OLD BUILDINGS
Case studies in adaptive re-use
Reusing old churches
Peter Drummond, Senior Conservation Architect,
Austin-Smith:Lord