He died on 29 February 2016.įARM BUILDINGS in the GRAMPIAN REGION Financed by COUNTRYSIDE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND. Walker continued to write and publish into his seventies.
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He was a member of numerous professional bodies.
He presented lectures to a vast array of different learned societies and educational institutions. Concurrently with his research he lectured widely at the Universities of Aberdeen, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Dundee and Edinburgh and at Heriot Watt University and abroad as visiting lecturer and tutor on a wide range of architectural and archaeological subjects. Walker’s research projects from 1977 are listed separately as are his extensive list of publications. This was followed by Walker’s Phd on ‘Agricultural Buildings of Greater Strathmore 1770-192’ which received a number of research awards from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Research Committee between 18 as well as a RIBA Research Award and an award from the DJCA Staff Development Fund. His time thereafter was largely spent on research projects beginning with that entitled ‘Clay Buildings in North East Scotland’ which received the Thomas Ross Award in 1974. In 1972 he formed a partnership with Andrew D Brown as Walker & Brown which continued until 1975. In 1968 with the aid of an RIBA research award he worked on Scottish Tollbooths Bell House and Municipal Buildings. In 1965 he became a full-time lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone (Lecturer Grade I) continuing until 1994 when he became an honorary lecturer at the University of Dundee.Ĭoncurrently with private practice and teaching Walker worked on a range of research projects on varied subjects.
When he was nominated for Fellowship of the RIBA in 1969 he had worked on the following in private practice: warehouse buildings, combined offices and workshops, storage sheds, boiler houses, cattle courts, sheep-rearing sheds, potato and grain silos, bull pens, hotels and bars, private houses and shops. In 1963 he opened his own practice which he continued to run until 1971. From 1963-65 he worked for the Eastern Regional Hospital Board and was project architect on hospital and farming projects and at the same time was a part-time lecturer at Dundee College of Technology in the history of building and structure and of the building industry and at the Duncan of Jordanstone College where he tutored students on their design projects. He undertook a part-time course in Landscape Architecture from 1963-4 at the Duncan of Jordanstone College. He was awarded the RIBA Certificate of Merit for drawings submitted at the Annual Exhibition of Students of Schools of Architecture in 1960 and was admitted ARIBA in 1962 and ARIAS two years later.ĭuring this period, 1960-1963, he had a post with the Dundee practice James Parr & Partners working as project architect on housing and commercial schemes. A report of his final year thesis appeared in ‘La Revue Moderne des Arts et de La Vie’ September 1, 1961.
His ‘Year Out’ was spent as an architectural assistant with the practice Knapton & Dean, London and during that summer he exhibited in the Royal Academy.
He studied for the diploma in architecture at the School of Architecture, Dundee College of Art from 1954-60. Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Architect Biography Report (December 22, 2021, 9:19 pm) DSA Architect Biography Report (December 22, 2021, 9:19 pm)ĭavid Bruce Walker was born on 25 January 1936.
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