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Basic Biographical Details
| Name: | Robert Hogg Matthew |
| Designation: | Architect |
| Born: | 12 December 1906 |
| Died: | 2 June 1975 |
| Bio Notes: | CBE, MA, FRIBA Robert Hogg Matthew was born 12 December 1906, the eldest surviving son of John Fraser Matthew, architect, and his wife, Annie Broadfoot Hogg. His father was the first apprentice of Robert Lorimer and worked in partnership with him from 1927. Robert Hogg was educated at the Edinburgh Institution and studied at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) under John Begg from 1924. During his studies, he toured frequently in Scotland, England, and Italy and won the RIBA Pugin Travelling Scholarship in January of 1929. He obtained his diploma in 1930 and joined his father's firm of Lorimer & Matthew as an assistant in the summer of that year. Matthew was admitted ARIBA in June 1931, his proposers being Begg, Sydney Houghton Miller and Charles Denny Carus-Wilson. On Christmas day in 1931 Matthew married Lorna Pilcher, to whom he had been engaged for some time. Earlier that year, he had been appointed a part-time instructor at ECA and returned to his studies for a further two years with a postgraduate fellowship at the College. During the early 1930s, while his Lorimer & Matthew and college work brought him little income, Robert’s career hopes were pinned mostly on post-graduate research, and having won the Soane Medal and Cates Prize in 1932, he plunged into a multi-faceted research programme orientated towards the Modernist reformist agenda of research-driven housing and planning. Although he continued to assist his father on a part-time basis, Robert’s full-time role with Lorimer & Matthew ended in July of 1934 when he won the Andrew Grant Bequest Fellowship (ECA), which paid for a further two years of postgraduate research on housing and planning. During this time, Matthew undertook a Geddes-style survey and redevelopment proposal for the St Leonards area in Edinburgh, which secured him the RIBA Alfred Bossom Travelling Studentship in 1936. By this time, he had also already embarked on a series of entries for public architectural competitions – mostly for municipal headquarters complexes – though none of them had come to fruition. In May of 1936, Matthew was appointed assistant architect in the Department of Health for Scotland. The Matthews’ first child, (Robert) Aidan Matthew, was born shortly thereafter in July, and their daughter, Janet Frances Catriona Matthew, was born two years later in March of 1939. As a DHS architect, Matthew worked on housing projects at first and then began expanding the work of the architectural staff in the areas of hospital design and town planning. In 1937 he was the organiser of the Town Planning Exhibition in the Royal Scottish Academy, which he used to advocate the need for Geddes-influenced planning in Edinburgh, and in 1938 he was an official government adviser to the town planning exhibition in the Scottish Pavilion at Glasgow’s Empire Exhibition. Matthew had also entered various competitions with friend Alan Reiach, and in December of 1938, they finally won the Ilkeston Baths competition; however, their design was never executed due to the outbreak of war. During the war, Matthew’s DHS workload changed dramatically, with his main work between 1939 and 1943 being the design of base and auxiliary hospitals throughout Scotland for the Emergency Hospitals Service. He was also involved in the inspection of housing schemes to be finished off and conversions of schools for ARP and shelter use. From 1943, Matthew became engaged full-time in town and regional planning, being responsible for building up a research-based planning organisation within DHS. In 1943 Matthew was appointed Deputy Chief Architect with sole responsibility for planning, and between 1943 and 1946 he worked on researching and writing the Clyde Plan as deputy to consultant Patrick Abercrombie. By the end of 1944, Matthew had been appointed Chief Architect at DHS, but occupied the post only briefly, as he was appointed architect to London County Council in May 1946 (LCC biographical volumes give his appointment as starting September 1946) and moved to London in November. Matthew came to the Council's service at the beginning of a period of great development in both constructional and planning work and particularly in the expansion of the school building programme. Although his first task was to repair existing war-damaged schools, under his direction the value of new school schemes rose from £600,000 in 1947-48 to £3.5 million in 1952-53. The changing pattern of the Council's social services brought new responsibilities, such as the design of the first comprehensive health centre in the country at Woodberry Down and the construction of homes for old people and family groups of children in several locations. Matthew also succeeded in recovering the responsibility for housing design for his department at LCC, and he oversaw projects including the layout of Lansbury in London’s bombed East End as an exhibition for the Festival of Britain. In 1950, the introduction on a large scale of the principle of mixed development meant that he had the further responsibility of laying out wide areas of new housing to fit within the Development Plan of 1951, including, for example, the pioneering point-programme at Roehampton. However, the outstanding achievement of Matthew's service with the Council is demonstrated in the Royal Festival Hall. For Matthew, the Festival Hall was an opportunity to invent and express a Modern monumentality to celebrate the new social conditions of the postwar age. By incorporating a mixture of Modern design with a traditional grand building type, he ensured that it would be one of the few large Modern Movement buildings to escape the vilifications of the 1970s and 1980s. During his time at the LCC, Matthew was accorded a number of honours. For his work on the Festival Hall and other work in connection with the Festival of Britain, he was awarded the CBE in 1952. He also gained RIBA Distinction in Town Planning in 1949 and was elected to the RIBA Council in 1950. In 1949, he was appointed to the Committee of the Anglo-American Council of Productivity and in July was sent on an eight-week tour to the USA to investigate why the American industry were able to build faster and more efficiently than the British. By mid-1951, Matthew had secured himself an unchallengeable position as one of the chief inspirers and brokers of ‘Modern Public Architecture’ in Britain. However, he had never intended to stay away from Edinburgh permanently, and while in London, had maintained an active interest in architectural, town planning and conservation issues in Scotland. By mid-1952, aware of the increasingly waning prestige of public architecture and a shift in focus towards private practice, Matthew had decided to return to Edinburgh as Professor of Architecture and establish his own practice. This decision coincided with the birth of the Matthews' third child, Jessie Ann Matthew, in June of 1952. When Matthew moved to Edinburgh in 1953, most of his time was initially absorbed by his two posts – Professor of Architecture at Edinburgh University and head of the School of Architecture at ECA. This double-post, however, soon proved impractical, and Matthew found that the ECA degree course needed to be reformed and modernised. His solution was to separate the Edinburgh and ECA posts in 1955 and to focus on establishing a new Department of Architecture at Edinburgh, complete with a new BArch and research March degrees, beginning in 1956. He was elected ARIAS in 1956. In an effort to kick-start his research programme, Matthew managed to attract a £60,000 funding package from the Nuffield Foundation, Carnegie and the Department of Scientific Industrial Research to finance a Housing Research Unit, which was set up in 1959. As the department expanded, Matthew’s prestige soon attracted a stream of international-calibre visiting lecturers, including Nervie, Kahn, Pevsner, McGrath, Max Fry and Mumford. In his private practice, Matthew started slowly, with a series of competitions and small jobs, some of which were inherited from his father’s practice. His practice soon took off, however, mushrooming into a large and highly-successful firm. Shortly after being admitted FRIBA in 1955, Matthew took Stirrat Johnson-Marshall into partnership in 1956, forming Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall (RMJM), with one office in Edinburgh and another in London. Although Stirrat was responsible for the London office, Matthew initially maintained a high degree of involvement in both locations, frequently taking the sleeper train from Edinburgh to London. Both offices attracted a prestigious range of mostly large, publicly-funded projects, both in the UK and abroad. The firm would become Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall & Partners in 1961. Matthew’s strong grounding in Edinburgh Arts and Crafts and Geddesian principles of conservative surgery had a strong influence on his early private practice work, with many of his designs exhibiting a vernacular-inspired Modernism rooted strongly in the use of ‘Scottish’ materials, most notably stone (e.g. Turnhouse Airport). However, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as his practice began to deal increasingly with commissions for large public building complexes, Matthew’s crusade for Scottish Modernism was somewhat sidelined in favour of urban renewal and large-scale developments often incorporating multi-storey design solutions (e.g. New Zealand House, Gorbals/Hutchesontown Area B). However, irrespective of style, Matthew’s work was always imbued with a humanistic sense of social values and a commitment to architecture as a public service. From the early 1960s, Matthew decisively entered a new phase of life, which coincided with the award of a knighthood on 13 February 1962. Largely casting off day-to-day involvement in RMJM work in the UK and the Edinburgh University department (retiring from the Forbes Professorship and departmental headship in the summer of 1968), Matthew threw himself into a new, intense concentration on architectural ‘diplomatic’ tasks, as well as some completely new challenges, such as a commission to mastermind the re-planning of the devolved state of Northern Ireland. In addition to serving as President of the RIBA (1962-64), Matthew assumed an increasingly global role as an architectural statesman, serving as President of the International Union of Architects (IUA) from 1961 to 1965 (UK representative on the Executive Committee from November 1953 and Vice-President from 1957) and President of the Commonwealth Association of Architects from 1965 and 1969. In these capacities, he travelled extensively and dealt with issues including the need to counteract cold-war tendencies within architecture and decolonisation. From the 1960s, Matthew’s RMJM workload also began to re-orientate itself overseas, with projects including a large-scale master-planning project in Islamabad; the development of a large suburban area of Tripoli in Libya; a commission to design Coleraine University in Northern Ireland; and a multifaceted educational building and planning programme in Nigeria. The breakdown of faith in Modernist ‘progress’ and mass building required Matthew to adapt his ideology from the late 1960s, promoting a more human and participatory approach to architecture, and becoming increasingly committed to the emerging conservation movement and Scottish nationalism. Despite his sometimes contradictory architectural approaches, Matthew had always been a proponent of conservation, especially in Edinburgh, having been active in a range of heritage organisations, such as the Historic Building Council for Scotland, the Saltire Society and the Royal fine Art Commission for Scotland. He also helped to set up the Scottish Civic Trust in 1965-7 and served as special ‘consultant adviser’ to the Secretary of State on conservation policy matters between 1970 and 1973. Matthew’s conservation efforts culminated in a condition survey of the entire New Town and a conference at the Assembly Rooms in June 1970 which led to the creation of the Edinburgh New Town Conservation Committee. During the years from the late 1960s, Matthew also became involved with numerous building and environmental conservation initiatives abroad. Matthew was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1970. In the 1970s, he had very little involvement with the firm, but remained active, undertaking consultancy work, judging architectural competitions and continuing to travel. Matthew never retired. He became ill with cancer while on business in France in December 1974 and died on 21 June 1975, survived by his wife and children. |
Private and Business Addresses
| The following private or business addresses are associated with this architect: | |||||
| Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | |
 | 43, Minto Street, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private | 1920 | After 1931 | |
| 12, Darnaway Street, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private | 1939 * | ||
| Keith Marishchal, East Lothian, Scotland | Private | 1956 * | ||
* earliest date known from documented sources.
Employment and Training
Employers
| The following individuals or organisations employed or trained this architect (click on an item to view details): | |||||
| Name | Date from | Date to | Position | Notes | |
| Lorimer & Matthew | October 1929 | 1938 | Assistant | |
| Department of Health for Scotland (Scottish Board of Health; later Scottish Development Department) | 1938 | 1943 | According to Glendinning et al he was Chief Architect from 1945-46. | |
| London County Council Architects' Department (LCC Architects' Department) | After 1943 | 1953 | Chief Architect | |
| Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall (RMJM) | 1956 | 1961 | Partner | |
| Edinburgh University Housing Research Unit (HRU) / Architecture Research Unit (ARU) | October 1959 | Director | ||
| Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall & Partners (RMJM) | 1961 | Partner | ||
| Commonwealth Association of Architects | 1964 * | 1969 | President | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
Employees or Pupils
| The following individuals were employed or trained by this architect (click on an item to view details): | |||||
| Name | Date from | Date to | Position | Notes | |
| (Miss) Margaret McLaurin Little (Mrs McDiarmid) | December 1953 | Assistant | ||
| Thomas ('Tom') Riddell Spaven | Before 1953 | Late 1956 | Senior Assistant | |
| (Professor Sir) James Duncan Dunbar-Nasmith | April 1954 | 1956 | Architect | |
| Margaret Brown (Mrs Richards) | October 1954 | 1956 | Architect | |
| Graham Couper Law | November 1954 | 1956 | Architect | |
| Ronald Thurgarland | September 1954 * | Architect | ||
| James Richard Latimer | c. 1955 | 1956 | Architect | |
| Robert ('Bob') Dawson | c. 1955 | c. 1956 | Assistant(?) | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
RIBA
RIBA Proposers
| The following individuals proposed this architect for RIBA membership (click on an item to view details): | |||
| Name | Date proposed | Notes | |
| John Begg | Mid 1931 | for Associateship |
| Charles Denny Carus-Wilson | Mid 1931 | for Associateship |
| Sydney Houghton Miller | Mid 1931 | for Associateship |
RIBA Proposals
| This architect proposed the following individuals for RIBA membership (click on an item to view details): | |||
| Name | Date proposed | Notes | |
| Richard Thomas Bigwood | 16 July 1969 | For Fellowship |
| Gerald Francis Carroll | 4 December 1968 | For Fellowship |
| Peter Scott Ferguson | 4 October 1960 | for Fellowship |
| John Hardie Glover | Mid 1960 or late 1960 | for Fellowship |
| Thomas Harley Haddow | 2 February 1960 | for Associateship |
| John Buchan Hall | 5 June 1968 | for Fellowship |
| Stirrat Andrew William Johnson-Marshall | April 1964 | For Fellowship |
| Maurice Kenfield | 1969 | For Fellowship |
| Alan Reiach | Early 1959 | for Fellowship |
| John Herdman Reid | 17 July 1968 | For Fellowship |
| Andrew Renton | 4 October 1960 | for Fellowship |
| (Professor) Charles Calthorpe Robertson | 5 June 1968 | For Fellowship |
| Thomas ('Tom') Riddell Spaven | 14 December 1968 | For Fellowship |
| (Sir) Harry Anthony Wheeler (or simply Sir Anthony Wheeler) | 19 July 1967 | for Fellowship |
| Henry Wylie (or Harry Wylie) | 2 October 1968 | For Fellowship |
Buildings and Designs
| This architect was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details): | |||||||
| Date started | Building name | Town, district or village | Island | City or county | Country | Notes | |
| Housing, Barrhill | Cumnock | Ayrshire | Scotland | In overall charge | ||
| University of Edinburgh, George Square Redevelopment | Edinburgh, Midlothian | Scotland | ||||
| 1931 | Earl Haig Memorial Homes | Saughton | Edinburgh | Scotland | Produced drawings for original buildings - as assistant in firm | |
| 1931 | St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Walpole Memorial Hall | Edinburgh | Scotland | Assisted with detailing and supervision. | ||
| 1933 | Loretto School, War memorial | Musselburgh | Midlothian | Scotland | As assistant in firm | |
| 1933 | Lothian House | Edinburgh | Scotland | Unexecuted design - as assistant to Lorimer & Matthew - Proposal for hotel, cinema, garage and shops | ||
| 1933 | The Wheatsheaf | Saughton | Edinburgh | Scotland | Working in family firm - as assistant in firm | |
| April 1933 | Prestwick Burgh Chambers and Public Baths | Prestwick | Ayrshire | Scotland | Competition entry. Robert Matthew responsible with the help of Alan Reiach. | |
| 1934 | 8 Picardy Place | Edinburgh | Scotland | As assistant in firm. | ||
| 1936 | House for Dr Kemp Smith | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1937 | House, Kilgraston Road | Edinburgh | Scotland | HS says it is by Robert Hogg Matthew | ||
| 1937 | Town Planning Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| c. 1937 | Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art | Dundee | Scotland | Competition entry with Alan Reiach, though not in formal partnership | ||
| 1938 | Duncan of Jordanstone College, Matthew Building | Dundee | Scotland | Date of original competition design which included scheme for Matthew Building - not successful. In conjunction with Alan Reiach. | ||
| 1938 | Ilkeston Baths competition | Derbyshire | England | Won competition in association with Alan Reiach | ||
| After 1938 | Emergency hospitals for Scottish Board of Health | Scotland | ||||
| 1943 | Clyde Valley Regional Plan | Scotland | Deputy to Abercrombie, as planner for Department of Health for Scotland. | |||
| 1945 | Swedish Timber Houses | Scotland | As Chief Architect of the Department of Health for Scotland | |||
| 1948 | Lansbury neighbourhood | London | England | As Architect to London County Council | ||
| 1948 | Royal Festival Hall | London | England | As Architect to London County Council - with Leslie Martin, Edwin Williams and P Moro | ||
| 1949 | Health Centre for London County Council | Poplar | London | England | ||
| 1950s | Cumnock Redevelopment plan | Cumnock | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| 1951 | County of London Development Plan, 1951 | London | England | With A G Ling as Chief Planning Officer | ||
| 1951 | LCC Comprehensive High School, Putney Park Lane | Wandsworth | London | England | ||
| 1951 | Roehampton housing scheme | Roehampton | London | England | As Architect to London County Council - with O J Cox, C Lucas, H J Whitfield Lewis et al. | |
| 1951 | Temporary and Permanent Shops, London | London | England | |||
| 8 November 1952 | Turnhouse Airport | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1953 | Kincardine Power Station | Kincardine-on-Forth | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1953 | Swinton School | Salford | Greater Manchester | England | ||
| 1953 | University of Aberdeen, Crombie Hall of Residence | Aberdeen | Scotland | |||
| 1954 | Cashlie Hydro-Electric Power Station | Glen Lochay | Perthshire | Scotland | Generating Station | |
| 1954 | Drawings for standardised Crudens primary schools | Matthew commissioned to produce drawings of standardised two-stream primary schools by Crudens | ||||
| 1954 | Lochay (Killin) Power Station | Glen Lochay | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1954 | Lubreoch Power Station | Innerwick, Glen Lyon | Perthshire | Scotland | Generating station | |
| 1955 | Burtons Shop | Hawick | Roxburghshire | Scotland | ||
| 1955 | Edinburgh Royal Infirmary | Edinburgh | Scotland | Phase I - redevelopment | ||
| 1955 | New Campus for University College Dublin | Dublin | Eire | |||
| 1955 | New Zealand House | London | England | With Maurice Lee at the London office. | ||
| 1955 | Ninewells Hospital and Medical School | Dundee | Scotland | |||
| 1955 | Ruddington School | Nottingham | Nottinghamshire | England | ||
| 1956 | Barshare Housing and comprehensive town plan | Cumnock and Holmhead Burgh | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| 1956 | Firrhill Secondary School | Firrhill | Edinburgh | Scotland | ||
| 1956 | Millbuies House | Gogarbank | Edinburgh | Scotland | ||
| c. 1956 | Multi-storey flats, Spey Street | Edinburgh | Scotland | Unsuccessful competition design | ||
| 1957 | Queen's College | Dundee | Scotland | |||
| 1957(?) | St John's Boarding School | Singapore | Singapore | |||
| 1957 | University of Aberdeen, Masterplan | Aberdeen | Scotland | |||
| April 1957 | Hauptstadt Berlin competition (Robert Matthew's entry) | Berlin | Germany | Supported by team including Michael Laird, Patrick Nuttgens and John Paterson | ||
| 1958 | 8 George Square | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1958 | Botany and Zoology Department, University of St Andrew's, Queen's College | Dundee, Angus | Scotland | |||
| 1958 | Hutchesontown / Gorbals Area B multi-storey flats and housing | Glasgow | Scotland | Acted as design consultant for development of scheme. | ||
| 1959 | Churchill College, Cambridge University | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | England | ||
| 1959 | Life Assurance Office Development | Montreal | Canada | |||
| 20 November 1959 | 'Air Terminal' Hotel, Gorbals | Gorbals | Glasgow | Scotland | per Builder p731 | |
| 1960s | 441 Corporation houses, Springburn CDA Area A | Springburn | Glasgow | Scotland | in overall charge | |
| 1960s | Administrative Sector Plan | Islamabad | Pakistan | Appointed architect-planner or 'Chief Coordinator of the Administrative Sector', with the intention that individual buildings in the sector would be divided up between Matthew and other architects | ||
| 1960s | Armed Forces Musem | Islamabad | Pakistan | |||
| 1960s | Group of Cultural Buildings for Islamabad Administrative Sector | Islamabad | Pakistan | |||
| 1960s | Turnhouse Airport | Edinburgh | Scotland | Extensions | ||
| 1960 | Army and Navy Club House | London | Consultant | |||
| 1960 | Belfast Regional Plan | Belfast | Northern Ireland | Matthew's 'made a Geddes-style reconnaissance visit in May 1960..' (Glendinning, 2008, p327) | ||
| 1960 | College of Nautical Studies | Glasgow | Scotland | In overall charge | ||
| 1960 | Commonwealth Institute | London | England | |||
| 1960 | Park 3 West Housing (West View) | Cumbernauld | Lanarkshire | Scotland | ||
| 1960 | Semi-rural housing experiment, Cuthill, Prestonpans | Cuthill, Prestonpans | East Lothian | Scotland | Prof. Matthew to design housing scheme based on research findings of University team per Builder p810 | |
| 26 February 1960 | Dumbarton Central Area Development | Dumbarton | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | assessor of design competition per Builder p403 | |
| 26 February 1960 | Dunbartonshire County Council Offices | Dumbarton | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | Competition assessor per Builder p403 | |
| 18 March 1960 | University, Auckland | Auckland | New Zealand | consultant architect for the scheme per Builder p580 | ||
| c. 1960 | University of Aberdeen, Johnston Hall of Residence | Aberdeen | Scotland | |||
| 1961 | Ellor Street Redevelopment, Pendleton | Salford | England | Prepared Master Plan for the comprehensive redevelopment of the area | ||
| 1961 | University of Glasgow Hall of Residence, Garscube Estate | Glasgow | Scotland | adjudicated design competition awarded first place to Grenfell, Baines and Hargreaves of Preston | ||
| 1962 | Cockenzie Power Station | Cockenzie | East Lothian | Scotland | In overall charge | |
| 1962 | Loretto School Chapel | Musselburgh | Midlothian | Scotland | Enlargement which replaced work by Honeyman & Keppie and Matthew. Lorimer furnishings retained. | |
| 1962 | Pilgrim Street development | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | England | In overall charge | ||
| 1962 | Schemes for Edinburgh New Town Conservation Committee | Edinburgh | Scotland | Matthew acted as a catalyst to the New Town's protection by bringing to the fore its architectural importance. He set about gathering support which eventually led to the New Town Committee's formation. | ||
| 1962 | Victoria Street housing development | Dunbar | East Lothian | Scotland | ||
| 1964 | Housing, Richmond Terrace | Cumnock | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| 1964 | Midlothian County Council Buildings | Edinburgh | Scotland | In overall charge | ||
| 1964 | Park Three West Housing | Cumbernauld | Lanarkshire | Scotland | ||
| 1964 | Standard Life Assurance Co | Edinburgh | Scotland | Extension Phase I - with Michael Laird | ||
| 1964 | University of Edinburgh Faculty Buildings | Edinburgh | Scotland | In overall charge | ||
| 1964 | University of Edinburgh, George Square Theatre | Edinburgh | Scotland | In overall charge | ||
| 1964 | University of Strathclyde | Glasgow | Scotland | Acted as consultant | ||
| 1964 | University of Strathclyde, Colville Building (Departments of Civil Engineering and Metallurgy) | Glasgow | Scotland | |||
| 1965 | Longannet Power Station | Kincardine on Forth | Fife | Scotland | In overall charge | |
| 1965 | National Library | Islamabad | Pakistan | |||
| 1965 | National Museum | Islamabad | Pakistan | |||
| 1965 | Royal Commonwealth Pool | Edinburgh | Scotland | In overall charge | ||
| 1965 | University of Stirling Development Plan | Stirling | Stirlingshire | Scotland | ||
| 1966 | British Home Stores, Princes Street | Edinburgh | Scotland | In overall charge | ||
| 1966 | Lower Whitehall and Parliament Square Redevelopment | London | Spence produced the Broad Sanctuary Report analysing Martin's plan, including the Broad Sanctuary Site and Government Conference centre; he advised on alternatives. | |||
| 1966 | New University of Ulster | Colreaine | Eire | In overall charge | ||
| 1966 | University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Epi-Genetics Building | Edinburgh | Scotland | In overall charge | ||
| 1966 | University of Stirling, including library and landscaping | Stirling | Stirlingshire | Scotland | ||
| 1967 | Hunterston B Nuclear Power Station | Ayrshire | Scotland | |||
| 1968 | Scotstoun Park housing | South Queensferry | West Lothian | Scotland | In overall charge | |
| 1968 | Standard Life Assurance Co | Edinburgh | Scotland | Extension Phase 2 - with Michael Laird. Extension phase 2 has elevation to St Andrew Square. | ||
| c. 1969 | Cumnock Senior Club | Cumnock | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| Mid 1960s | National Archives Building | Islamabad | Pakistan | |||
| 1971 | British Home Stores | Aberdeen | Scotland | |||
| 1971 | Industrialised Building Project (IBP) housing project | Gurgi | Tripoli (near) | Libya | ||
| 1971 | Market, 8-10 Market Street | Aberdeen | Scotland | |||
| 1972 | Opera House site | Edinburgh | Scotland | Scheme for pyramidal opera house | ||
| 1972 | Stables, Bell's Brae | Edinburgh | Scotland | In overall charge of conversion to offices | ||
| c. 1973 | Village plan | Hilton, Easter Ross | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland | ||
| c. 1973 | Village plan | Balintore, Easter Ross | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland | ||
| Before 1975 | Housing for the Link Housing Association | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| Before 1975 | Ski Lodge for Cairngorm Chairlift Company | Aviemore | Inverness-shire | Scotland | ||
| Before 1975 | Swan House offices | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | England | |||
| c. .1966 | Coleraine-Portrush-Portstewart Area Plan | Northern Ireland | Partner in charge until at least January 1967. He remained the 'official' project partner until his death | |||
| c. 1937 | Wood Green Borough Council headquarters | Wood Green | Middlesex | England | Competition entry. In association with Alan Reiach. | |
References
Bibliographic References
| The following books contain references to this architect: | ||||||
| Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | |
| Glendinning, Miles | 1997 | Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75 | Tuckwell Press Ltd | p11 Royal Festival Hall p13 Clyde Valley Regional Plan; photograph of a prototype block of Swedish timber houses at Balornock, Nov 1945 p15 Photograph of Matthew, 1940s p16 Burtons Shop; George Square redevelopment -Arts Tower p17-18, p29, p180-1 Queen's College, Dundee p17 Sketch perspective of proposed George Square redevelopment c1958 p18-19, p165 Turnhouse Airport p18-19, p157, p170 Kincardine Power Station p25 Midlothian County Buildings p26 Hutchesontown B p28 p29, 116, 119, 124, 127, 156, 164-5 University of Stirling p29,39,86,116,125-9,164,185 Royal Commonwealth Pool p165-7 University of Edinburgh George Square Redevelopment | |
| Glendinning, Miles | 2008 | Modern architect: the life and times of Robert Matthew | RIBA Publishing | ||
| Glendinning, Miles and Muthesius, Stefan | 1994 | Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland | Yale University Press: New Haven and London | p226, p227 p169, p228, p368 Hutchesontown Area B p381, Gazetteer 2 | |
| Miles Glendinning, Diane Watters, David Whitham | Docomomo Scotland Leaflet | Cover, p231 Royal Commonwealth Pool | |||
| Miles Glendinning, Diane Watters, David Whitham | Docomomo Scotland Leaflet | p226, p229 Edinburgh University redvelopment, George Square | |||
| Willis, Peter | 1977 | New architecture in Scotland | p7-8, p15-16 Turnhouse Airport p9 Cockenzie Power Station p10 p52-55 University of Stirling p76-9 Royal Commonwealth Pool p92-5 Ninewells Hospital | ||
Periodical References
| The following periodicals contain references to this architect: | |||||
| Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | |
| Architects Journal | 2 July 1975 | |||
| Builder | 14 December 1951 | p820-2 | ||
| Builder | 30 March 1951 | p453-4 | ||
| Builder | 27 July 1951 | p119 | ||
| Builder | 10 October 1952 | p496 - announcement that Matthew will take up appointment of Professor of Architecture at Edinburgh University in May 1953 | ||
| Builder | 8 May 1953 | p735 - details Matthew's resignation from LCC to take up post at Edinburgh University; also summarises speech given at Council meeting referring to architectural education | ||
| Builder | 13 November 1953 | p763 - details of inaugural address at Edinburgh University | ||
| Builder | 4 February 1955 | p236 - calling for more attention to climatic conditions in the design of houses | ||
| Builder | 3 May 1957 | p802 | ||
| Builder | 7 June 1957 | photo of Matthew receiving EAA Centenary Medal from A. Esme Gordon and Mrs. J. A. H. Mottram on p1026 | ||
| Builder | 28 March 1958 | 'CoID Scottish Committee Changes' p611 | ||
| Builder | 31 October 1958 | 'Postgraduate Research, Edinburgh' pp724-5 | ||
| Builder | 5 August 1960 | 'Civic Design: A New Diploma Course at Edinburgh' p228 | ||
| Builder | 8 December 1961 | 'Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh' p1091; Matthew was second incumbent for MA with honours in architecture at Univ of Edinburgh (also head of architecture at ECA) | ||
| Builder | 1 May 1964 | p915-916 | ||
| Builder | 5 June 1964 | p1212 | ||
| Glasgow Herald | 23 June 1975 | |||
| RIBA Journal | 1 August 1975 | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | ||
| Scotsman | 23 June 1975 | |||
| The Times | 23 June 1975 | |||
Archive References
| The following archives hold material relating to this architect: | ||||
| Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | |
| National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | NMRS Library | H2 MAT (P): obituary of Matthew by K Campbell (from 'Propsein'[?], 22 June 1975); memoir of Matthew by P Nuttgens (delivered at RIBA reception, 14 Oct 1975); comments on Matthew's life by P Nuttgens (telephoned to 'The Guardian', 11 Jun 1975) | |
| RIAS, Rutland Square | Records of membership | ||
| RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | A no4698 (combined box 30); F no4992 (combined box 49) | |
Images
© All rights reserved. Courtesy of David Ross. Picture taken at opening ceremony of the "New Life For The New Town" Exhibition at the Planning Department Gallery in Market Street, Edinburgh in the late 60's. Matthew speaking to Reiach in centre.