Speakers - Raymond Young

Title:

Towards a New Architecture? Towards a New Society?

Precis:

Le Corbusier’s book ‘Vers Une Architecture’ is perhaps the most influential architectural treatise of the 20th century. Its impact on post WW2 Britain was not simply on architectural form, but on the kind of urban society that was being forged.  What kind of places were to be created? Architects, inspired by Le Corbusier and others, helped to create the vision and to drive the changes - not all of them for the good!

Biography:

Raymond Young CBE is an architect and a former senior member of staff of Scottish Homes, based in rural Perthshire.  He was one of the founder members of ASSIST, the community architecture practice that pioneered both tenement rehabilitation and community based housing associations in Glasgow. He was a member of the UK Sustainable Development Commission from 2000-2004.

Raymond has worked with both the Housing Corporation and Scottish Homes, latterly as Director of Research and Innovation. Since 1997 he has run a part-time regeneration consultancy, with clients in the UK and Denmark, from a sustainable straw bale office in Perthshire.  He is non-executive Director of Historic Scotland, a visiting professor at the Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde, and Convenor of the Rural Housing Service.  He is currently the Chair of Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS).