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
THE
CURRENT LECTURE SERIES: 2009-2010
(Previous
series are listed lower down the page)
8 October 2009
WORLD HERITAGE
Planning, Understanding and World Heritage: the case
of Edinburgh
Charles McKean, Professor of
Scottish Architectural History University of Duindee
13 October
2009
SCOTLANDS BUILDINGS 1
Buildings of the Scottish Mining industry
Miles Oglethorpe, Head of Policy, Liaison & Modernisation, Historic Scotland
Scottish Lighthouses
Virginia Mayes-Wright, Director, Museum of Scottish
Lighthouses
20 October
2009
BUILDING CONSERVATION
Repairing Craigievar
Ian Davidson, Lead Surveyor, The
National Trust for Scotland
27 October
2009
RECORDING & UNDERSTANDING HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Thermal Imaging
Bill Revie of CMC Ltd
3D Digital Photography
Dr Maureen Young, Historic Scotland
10 November
2009
MATERIALS 1: TIMBER
30 years of timber project
Charley Brentnall,
structural carpentry
17 November
2009
CONSERVATION AREA MANAGEMENT
A Heritage at Risk
Katherine Dewar, Historic
Areas Adviser for the North East, English Heritage
24 November
2009
REGENERATION
Regeneration: The Social Dimension
Dave Chetwyn, Historic
Buildings Consultant
Merchant City,
THI and the Space Race: Tackling the satellite problems of area regeneration
Liz Davidson, Project Director, Merchant City
Initiative, Glasgow
1 December
2009
THE INTEGRITY OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
How My Practice Makes Buildings: A building paradigm
versus the policy landscape
Malcolm Fraser, Malcolm Fraser Architects
19 January
2010
VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE
A revolution in British Houses: AWN Pugin and the Early Gothic Revival
Timothy Brittain-Catlin,
writer, historian and lecturer, University of
Kent
26 January
2010
SCOTLANDS BUILDINGS 2
The Architecture of the Western Seaboard
Mary Miers, architectural
writer Country Life magazine, writer and author
2 February
2010
CONSERVATION PHILOSOPHY
A Psychological Approach to Urban Change
Jane Grenville, University of
York
9 February
2010
MATERIALS 2: OLD AND NEW
Vitrolite:
the study of shopfronts, the study of culture
Katriona Byrne,
Conservation Officer, Roscommon Council, Ireland
Lime in the Twenty First Century
Ros Artis-Young,
Director, The Scottish Lime Centre
23 February
2010
BUILDING CRAFTS AND DECORATIVE ARTS
William Morris and Scotland
–the Cotswold craftsmen: Ernest Gimson and the Barnsleys
Annette Carruthers, Head of School of
Art History, University of
St Andrews
2 March 2010
INTERNATIONAL
PERSPECTIVE
Siedlungen der Berliner
Moderner: an exercise in contemporary stewardship
Karl Friedrich Schinkel Architect to the Prussian Court
Professor Peter Burman MBE FSA, Heritage consultant in Germany and the UK
9 March 2010
FAVOURITE
BUILDINGS
Stirling Tolbooth and
AuchinleckHouse
James Simpson,
Simpson & Brown Architects
16 March 2010
HISTORIC
ORCHARDS
Agriculture
and Orchards on the Carse of Gowrie: a historical
perspective
Dr Mary Young, University of Dundee Archives
Ensuring the
Future of the Carse Orchards
Mike Strachan, Policy & Development Officer, Forestry Commissiion
THE
DUNDEE CONSERVATION LECTURES
PREVIOUS
SERIES: 1992-2009
Looking
back -latest first:
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
10th March 2009
TRADITIONAL MATERIALS
Brickwork: Use and Conservation
Gerard Lynch
3rd March 2009
INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE
Berlin's Museums - Heritage &
Innovation
Dr Peter Burman, Professor of Cultural Management,
Brandenburgische Technische
Universität Cottbus
24th February2009
FAVOURITE BUILDINGS
Stirling Tolbooth
and Auchenleck House
James Simpson, Simpson & Brown Architects
10th February 2009
REGENERATION AND NEW COMMUNITIES
Ed Taylor, Representative in Scotland for The Prince’s Foundation for the
Built Environment
3rd February 2009
HISTORIC HOUSES AND THEIR OWNERS
Culzean – A Robert Adam Masterpiece
Michael Moss, Research Professor in Archival Studies, University of Glasgow
27th January 2009
ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Roger Curtis, Historic Scotland
Dr Gerry White, Crichton Carbon Centre
Nicholas Heath, GAIA
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
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
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
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
6th February 2007
CAST IRON
Historic use and practice
Reinstatement of missing cast iron – methodology
and examples
David Mitchell, Historic Scotland
30th January 2007
THOMAS TELFORD
The man and his bridge at Dunkeld
Chris Ford, engineer
Telford and his Highland Churches - How he
Harnessed the Skills of Others
Rev Allan Maclean of Dochgarroch
23rd January 2007
SCULPTURE IN THE CITY
Sculpture on Scottish buildings
Ray McKenzie, Senior Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art
Public art and contemporary interventions
Bob McGilvray, University of Dundee and John Gray, Dundee City Council
16th January 2007
BUILDING RAILWAYS
Battle for the North - the 19th century Scottish
Railway Wars
Building the Tay and Forth Bridges
Professor Charles McKean, University of Dundee
THE DUNDEE
CONSERVATION LECTURES
5th December 2006
REDUNDANT CHURCHES
The work of the Scottish Redundant Churches
Trust
Victoria Collison-Owen,
Director
The Phoebe Traquair
Murals in the former Mansfield Place Church
Fiona Allardyce, wall
paintings conservator
28th November 2006
STAINED GLASS
Custodianship to Conservation
Mark Bambrough,
Stained Glass Conservator
Stained Glass in Scotland – An Overview
Sally Rush, art historian
21st November 2006
TRADITIONAL BUILDING REPAIRS
The Society for the Protection of Ancient
Buildings
Philip Venning,
Secretary, SPAB
14th November 2006
CONSERVING COUNTRY HOUSES
John Adam in the Borders: Paxton House and Gunsgreen House
Professor Alistair Rowan Chairman of the Paxton
Trust
and of Gunsgreen House
Trust
31st October 2006
INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION
Conservation projects in Berlin, Potsdam and
Turin
Peter Burman, Director
of Conservation and Property Services,
National Trust for Scotland
24th October 2006
EXTREME WRECK RESCUE
Historic Building Preservation Trusts
Jill Channer,
Director, Prince of Wales Phoenix Trust
17th October 2006
CONSERVATION PRACTICE
Why do we bother?
Jane Grenville,
English Heritage Commissioner
10th October 2006
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
Reinterpreting the Scottish tower house
Crichton Wood, Crichton Wood Architects
Nicoll Russell Studios, a retrospective
Professor Ric Russell,
Nicoll Russell Studios
The Calyx Project, Perth. Scotland’s Eden, Chelsea and Botanics - in one
Willie Watt, Nicoll
Russell Studios
14th March 2006
ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE
Methodology and principles: using indigenous timber in contemporary,
sustainable, rural buildings
Projects: the work of Neil Sutherland Architects
Neil Sutherland and Julie McRae, Neil Sutherland Architects
7th March 2006
MATERIALS 3
Manufacturing and Use of Lime
Dr
Alan Forster, Building Surveyor, Stephen Laing,
Traditional Masonry
28th February 2006
GARDENS
Stewardship, continuity and creativity The
many-layered nature of garden history in the British Isles
Dr Peter Burman, Director of Conservation
& Property Services, National Trust for Scotland
21st February 2006
SPORTING HERITAGE
Played in Britain Archie Leitch, Designer of Football Grounds
Simon Inglis, writer and Broadcaster
7th February 2006
MATERIALS 2
Corrugated iron
Dr Bruce Walker, architect, author and lecturer
31st January 2006
BUILDINGS FOR CULTURAL TOURISM
Tourism and the built environment: past and future
Alastair
Durie, author & lecturer
Ian Yeoman, Research Manager, VisitScotland
24th January 2006
MATERIALS 1
Stonework Moisture control: fundamental to facade maintenance
Dr Maureen Young, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
The Scottish Stone Liaison Group’s Glasgow Project
Dr Ewan Hyslop, British Geological Survey
17th January 2006
SCOTLAND IN A EUROPEAN CONTEXT
What we should be looking for: the European context of Scottish historic
architecture (and what we have lost and they haven’t)
Professor Charles McKean, Department of History, University of Dundee
THE DUNDEE
CONSERVATION LECTURES
6th December 2005
SACRED ARCHITECTURE
Landscapes of Meaning
Brian Adams, University of Dundee
In search of the Green Man
Dr Peter Hill
29th November 2005
SCOTLAND’S BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Historic Scotland: safeguarding and promoting Scotland’s built heritage
Malcolm
Cooper, Chief Inspector, Historic Scotland
Encouraging good architecture, design and planning
Sebastian Tombs, Architecture + Design Scotland
22nd November 2005
ENGINEERING & HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Engineering of Arches and Vaults
Bill Harvey, lecturer
15th November 2005
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
A tale of two civilisations: the planning-free
context of Japan versus the UK’s planning culture
Kathryn Findlay, architect
1st November 2005
TOWNSCAPE HERITAGE INITIATIVES
Progress across the United Kingdom
Philip Grover, Oxford Brookes University
Dr Allan Reeve, Oxford Brookes University
25th October 2005
10 YEARS OF THE HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND
Colin Mclean Manager for Scotland
18th October 2005
CONSERVATION PHILOSOPHY
Jane Grenville, Director MA in Conservation Studies University of York, English Heritage Commissioner
11th October 2005
ARCHITECTURAL INVESTIGATION
Amateur or Architect - 17th and 18th century approaches to building.
John Evelyn and John Soane, their travels and their
architecture
Gillian Darley, author and broadcaster
THE DUNDEE CONSERVATION LECTURES
15th March 2005
PIONEERING GARDENS OF A BYGONE AGE
Osgood Mackenzie and West Coast gardens
John Anderson, Head Gardener, Inverewe Garden
Estate of the imagination: “all lovely things are also necessary”
Sally Beamish, Head Gardener, Brantwood (home
of John Ruskin)
8th March 2005
PATRICK GEDDES - HIS INFLUENCE ON THE ROYAL MILE
Reflections on Geddes’ work in the Lawnmarket
Neil Grieve, University of Dundee
The Royal Mile Today
Ben Tindall, architect
1st March 2005
MANAGING THE COUNTRY HOUSE
The country house and garden in contemporary life and philosophy
Why Dumfries House and Estate are important to the nation
Dr Peter Burman, Director of Conservation
& Property Services, National Trust for Scotland
22nd February 2005
TIMBER CONSTRUCTION
Scottish and European perspective
Dr Bruce Walker, architect, author and lecturer
8th February 2005
CONSERVATION-LED REGENERATION
The work of English Heritage in the North West of England
Henry Owen-John, Regional Director, Planning and Development, North West Region
1st February 2005
PERTH & KINROSS HERITAGE TRUST
The Work of Perth
& Kinross Heritage Trust
David Strachan, Manager, Perth
& Kinross Heritage Trust
Developing and implementing a historic environment record
Sarah Winlow, Archaeologist, Perth
& Kinross Heritage Trust
25th January 2005
SUSTAINABLILTY IN BUILDING CONSERVATION
Sustainable building technologies
Neil May, Natural Building Products
Using sustainable materials: case study
Richard Atkins, architect
18th January 2005
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
How similar / How different: Prague and Barcelona with a sideways
glimpse of Glasgow
Courage and respect in the adaptation of the past: taking the Burra Charter with some chilli
pepper
Professor Charles McKean, Department of
History, University of Dundee
7th December 2004
RUSKIN AND HIS INFLUENCE
John Ruskin, a life in pictures
Ruskin, Morris and the Arts & Crafts Movement
Stephen Wildman, Director
& Curator, the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University
30th November 2004
ARCHAEOLOGY IN HISTORIC TOWNS AND CITIES
Archaeology in historic towns: how does it work?
Russell Coleman, Headland Archaeology
What has this got to do with planning?
Stuart Eydeman, Conservation and Design
Officer, West Lothian Council
23rd November 2004
ENGINEERING & HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Innovative solutions
John Addison, Conservationist and Structural Engineer
Conservation of early concrete structures
Dr Rod Jones, Dept of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee
16th November 2004
SCOTTISH GRAVEYARDS
An overview and the specific problems of carved stones
Dr Susan Buckham, Council for Scottish
Archaeology
Case study: Greyfriars Graveyard, Perth
David Bowler, Director, Scottish Urban Archaeological Trust
2nd November 2004
CONSERVATION PRACTICE
The work of Historic Scotland's Conservation Centre
Robert Wilmot, Director
26th October 2004
BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUSTS (BPTs)
Restorers of last resort - the work of BPTs
and The Architectural Heritage Fund
Maria Perks, Projects Development Officer, the Architectural Heritage
Fund
Threats and opportunities – the problem of too many churches
Victoria Collison-Owen, Director, Scottish
Redundant Churches Trust
19th October 2004
SCOTTISH INTERIORS
Recent projects of the National Trust for Scotland
Two very different Arts & Crafts houses: Broughton House,
Kirkcudbright and Hill of Tarvit, Fife
Ian Gow, Curator, National Trust for Scotland
12th October 2004
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
What if the hokey cokey is really what it’s
all about?
John Coleman, John Coleman Architects
Working with Frank Gehry: the Dundee Maggie's Centre
Fred Stephen, James F Stephen Architects
THE DUNDEE CONSERVATION LECTURES
16th March 2004
REVIVALISMS
Sir GG Scott and the Gothic Revival in Scotland
Professor Sam McKinstry, University of Paisley
German Designs for an 18th Century Castle in Fife!
David Adshead, Archivist, The
National Trust
9th March 2004
RUINS
A Living Expression of Human Imagination
Christopher Woodward, Art Historian and Author
2nd March 2004
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
Florence, City of Art
and Architecture: A New Look
Lettering in Public Places
Peter Burman MBE, Director of Conservation and
Property Services, National Trust for Scotland
24th February 2004
THE RESTORATION OF LINLITHGOW PALACE
Early History
Ian Campbell, Edinburgh College of Art
Recent Discoveries
Nick Bridgeland, Historic Scotland
10th February 2004
URBAN REGENERATION
Reinventing the Sixties Tower Block, the Manchester
Experience
Case Study: Gresham
Mill, Salford
Warren Smith, Chairman LPC Living
3rd February 2004
HISTORIC LANDSCAPES
Waterfalls and Hermitages in Scotland - An Eighteenth Century Passion
Christopher Dingwall, Conservation Officer,
the Garden History Society
Trying to Think Rationally about an Iconic Building and Landscape: a
Conservation Plan for Ossian’s Hall, the Hermitage, Perthshire
Dr Shannon Fraser, Archaeologist, National Trust for Scotland NE Region
27th January 2004
BUILDING TECHNOLOGY
Floor Loadings in Historic Buildings
John Addison, Peter Stephen & Son, Engineers
Fire in Historic Buildings
Stephen Newsom, Architect
20th January 2004
WATER ARCHAEOLOGY
Underwater Archaeology
Barry Andrian, The
Scottish Trust for Underwater Archaeology
RCAHMS Maritime Unit
Bob Mowat, RCAHMS
9th December 2003
SUSTAINABILITY
Green Architecture
Howard Liddell, Gaia Architects
(includes Christmas refreshments)
2nd December 2003
TIMBER IN BUILDING
Carpenter Oak and Woodland
Charlie Brentnall
25th November 2003
NORTHERN PERSPECTIVES
Towns and Buildings of Cumbria and Northumberland
Differences in Practice – Conservation in Northern England
and Southern Scotland
Andrew Martindale, English Heritage NW Region
18th November 2003
TWENTIETH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE
Louis Khan’s Last Building. the
Restoration of Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut
Penguin Pool to Highpoint One – an Appreciation of Berthold
Lubetkin and the Tecton
Group
Stephen Gee, Inskip & Jenkins
4th November 2003
HISTORIC MAPS
Pont, Slezer and the Early Maps of Scotland
Professor Charles McKean, University of Dundee
Pre-empting the Ordnance Survey: James Collie’s Maps of Dundee
Richard Cullen, Dundee City Archives
28th October 2003
WORLD HERITAGE SITES
Understanding and Planning for UK World Heritage Sites
World Heritage Site Management Plan Case Studies
Chris Blandford, Chris Blandford
Associates
21st October 2003
DELIVERING AREA REGENERATION
City Regeneration - Partnerships and Funding
Case Studies: Manchester,
Leicester, Blackpool,
Solihull and Fort William
Duncan Sutherland, Managing Director, Inpartnership
Ltd
14th October 2003
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
Walker Architecture
Mark Walker, Walker Architecture
Colin Smith + Judith Wilson Architects
Colin Smith and Judith Wilson
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