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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
	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
	Alan Reiach	Early 1959	for Fellowship
	John Herdman Reid	17 July 1968	For Fellowship
	Andrew Renton	4 October 1960	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
	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 and Market			Aberdeen	Scotland
	1971	Industrialised Building Project (IBP) housing project	Gurgi		Tripoli (near)	Libya
	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.