Professor Robin Webster OBE RSA PPRIAS

Robin was born in Glasgow into an artistic family and educated at Glasgow Academy and Rugby School. His architectural training was at the University of Cambridge and the Bartlett. On winning an international competition for the Houses of Parliament at Westminster in 1972, he formed a partnership in London with Robin Spence, (Spence + Webster Architects) and although the parliament building was never built, the practice went on to build a number of projects including housing at Central Milton Keynes, the Psychology building at the University of Warwick and two steel framed courtyard houses in Belsize Park.

He taught at the Bartlett, Cambridge and the Mackintosh Schools of Architecture, and in 1984 took the chair at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, where he continued until 2005. He then returned to Glasgow and formed a partnership with his son-in law Stuart Cameron and his daughter Miranda Webster (cameronwebster architects), winning a number of awards.  He was President of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland from 2018-2020. He has now retired from the practice and is currently involved with a number of charities and social enterprises.

His painting includes screen prints of buildings, which he does at the Glasgow Print Studio, and rather more relaxed watercolours of landscapes, painted on site, mainly of the Scottish west coast. He lives in Glasgow with his wife in the “A” listed Walmer Crescent (designed by Alexander Thomson), and has a cottage in Millhouse, Tighnabruaich.

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