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.
Latest first:
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
Latest first:
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
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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
Latest first:
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
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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
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