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.
Chair of Architectural Science was established in 1966. Robert Adam Chair of Architecture established 1967. A Chair of Architectural Computing was established in 1994. A Chair of Architectural History and Theory was established in 2011. A Chair of Landscape Architecture was established in 2011.
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- )
- 2013- : 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 History and Theory
- 2011- : Ian Campbell
Professors of Landscape Architecture
- 2012- : Catharine Ward Thompson