Architecture

Raymond Gordon Brown was the first to hold the Forbes Chair of Architecture taking up the post on 1 Feb 1949. This was a joint post which also saw him as Head of the School of Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. Selection was made by a Joint Committee which included both the Principals of the two institutions. There were 17 applicants from which 4 were short-listed. The decision to appoint Brown was unanimous. The Chair itself was instituted following an Ordinance of 15 Dec 1947.

Forbes Professors of Architecture

• 1948-1950: Raymond Gordon Brown (1912-1962)
• 1953-1975: Sir Robert Hogg Matthew (1906–1975) (part-time from 1968)
• 1985-1992: Isi Metzstein (1928-2012)
• 1992-1995: Robert Tavernor (1954- )

Currently: Mark Dorrian

Is the Robert Adam Chair of Architecture that Guy Barrie Oddie (1922-2011) occupies from 1968 a different chair?

C. B. Wilson Chair of Architectural Science from 1968 too.

Professors of Architectural Computing

• 1995- : Richard Coyne

Professors of Architectural Technology

• 2004- : Remo Pedreschi

Professors of Landscape Architecture

Prof Catharine Ward Thompson