Frank Arneil Walker Explained

Frank Arneil Walker OBE is a Scottish architectural academic and writer. He is emeritus professor of architecture of the University of Strathclyde, having retired in 2003.

Career

Walker was educated at Paisley Grammar School.[1] He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and then worked in practice for around ten years.[2]

He was a lecturer in Architecture and building science at the University of Strathclyde, and was involved in a cultural exchange programme with Czechoslovakia, taking a trip there in 1977.[3] He retired from the university in 2003, becoming an emeritus professor.[4] [5]

Author

He has written regularly on architectural and urban history, is author of The South Clyde Estuary,[6] [7] and co-author of The North Clyde Estuary and Central Glasgow[8] in the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland series of handbooks on Scottish architecture.

He is also a contributor to the Buildings of Scotland series, having written Argyll and Bute[9] and co-written the Stirling and Central Scotland and Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire volumes.[10] [11] The Argyll and Bute volume took seven years to write and was first published in 2000.[12] Mousa to Mackintosh was published in 2023.[2] [13] It was shortlisted for the Research Award at the 2023 Saltire Society Literary Awards.[14]

Awards an honours

Walker was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year Honours for services to architectural history and conservation.[15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Paisley Grammar School: A Storied Institution . www.paisleyheritage.org.uk . 16 August 2024 . 15 September 2024.
  2. News: 'What makes Scottish architecture Scottish?', academic's book asks . Adam . Robertson . . Scotland . 21 September 2023 . 15 September 2024.
  3. News: Two Scots on Iron Curtain visits . . 20 August 1977 . 2 . 15 September 2024.
  4. Web site: Architecture > GIA & departmental annual awards list . . 15 September 2024.
  5. Web site: Department . University of Strathclyde . 2010-12-11 . 3 December 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171937/http://www.strath.ac.uk/architecture/department/ . dead .
  6. News: Guides which put you in the picture . The Glasgow Herald . 16 December 1986 . 15 September 2024.
  7. Reviewed Works: STIRLING AND THE TROSSACHS Charles McKean ABERDEEN: An Illustrated Architectural Guide W. A. Brogden THE SOUTH CLYDE ESTUARY: An Illustrated Guide to Inverclyde and Renfrew Frank Arneil Walker CLACKMANNAN AND THE OCHILS: An Illustrated Architectural Guide Adam Swan . John . Frew . . 136 . 5379 . February 1988 . 206–207 . 41374545 .
  8. News: Guide to the City of Architecture . Carl . MacDougall . . 23 December 1989 . 13 . 15 September 2024.
  9. The Buildings of Scotland: Argyll and Bute. By Frank Arneil Walker (with Fiona Sinclair). 220mm. Pp xviii + 683, 64 pls. London: Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN 0–14 071 079–5. Price not given. . Geoffrey . Stell . . Cambridge University Press . 81 . September 2001 . 415–416 . 10.1017/S0003581500072346.
  10. News: I say, what a lovely building! . Charlotte . Higgins . . 20 June 2001 . 15 September 2024.
  11. News: The refugee who opened our eyes to the manmade beauty of Britain . Ian . Jack . The Guardian . 19 November 2016 . 15 September 2024.
  12. News: With its own place in history . Philip . Cowan . . 19 April 2000 . subscription . 15 September 2024.
  13. News: Review - Mousa to Mackintosh: the Scottishness of Scottish architecture . Roger . Emmerson . . 9 August 2023 . 15 September 2024.
  14. News: Mir, MacInnes and Hazard among authors shortlisted for Scotland's National Book Awards . Melina . Spanoudi . . 26 October 2023 . 15 September 2024.
  15. News: OBEs N - Z . BBC News. 31 December 2001. 11 December 2010.

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