Roger Emmerson

Oct 18, 2023 | bdonline.co.uk | Jim Dunton |Roger Emmerson |Ben Flatman

Grade B-listed Kelso landmark transformed into 36-home extra-care facility Aitken Turnbull Architects has repurposed a disused former school building in the Scottish Borders, turning it into a 36-home supported living facility for a local housing association. Some members of the practice’s project team are former pupils of Kelso High School, which had stood vacant since the school moved to new premises six years ago.

Sep 27, 2023 | bdonline.co.uk | Jim Dunton |Roger Emmerson |Elizabeth Hopkirk |Tom Lowe

Hiring drive hikes staff numbers at longstanding Scottish firm Scottish architect Aitken Turnbull has announced seven new hirings and two promotions, boosting headcount by around 25%.

Aug 17, 2023 | bdonline.co.uk | Roger Emmerson

In this excerpt from his new book, Roger Emmerson considers the relationship of Modernism, regionalism and cultural identity to Scottish architecture Everyone from Immanuel Kant to The Broons has something relevant to say about Scottish architecture. Karel Čapek, the Czech playwright who gave English the word ‘robot’, called it ‘stonily grey and strange of aspect’, while American architect Louis I Kahn thought of it as ‘fairy-tale’ .

Aug 9, 2023 | bdonline.co.uk | Roger Emmerson

Scotland, despite local variation, is small enough to have something approaching a unified culture. How then does one define the ‘-ishness’ of Scottish culture? Is it geographic: everything ever imagined, built, performed, painted, danced, sung, spoken or written about within the entity now known as Scotland? Is it aesthetic: everything in that performative enterprise which has utilised identifiable formal means historically embedded in that culture?