First woman appointed to head architecture body

RESPECTED Glasgow architect Karen Anderson has been named the first woman chief of Scotland's architecture and planning "champion" Architecture and Design Scotland.

The appointment of an architect with a track record of quality, "not ritzy" projects to head the quango was welcomed even by A&DS critics.

"I'm heartened by her appointment," said Malcolm Fraser, the leading Scottish architect who resigned from the A&DS board soon after it was established over its approach to school design.

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Ms Anderson graduated from Glasgow's Mackintosh School of Architecture in 1984 and is a founding partner of Anderson, Bell and Christie architects in Glasgow. She has a background in social housing and experience in urban and rural planning in locations as diverse as Raploch in Stirling and the Isle of Gigha.

A&DS had struggled for credibility among architects and had been "reined in" as an independent voice, Mr Fraser said, but Ms Anderson had a strong CV.

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