Robin V. Webster

ROBIN WEBSTER, BORN 1939

ARCHITECT

Robin Websiter was born in Glasgow, the sone of the distinguished stained glass artist Gordon Webster. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and Rugby School. After travels in Europe and the Middle East (including a spell living in a Kibbutz) he went up to St. John’s College Cambridge to read architecture. He completed his architectural studies at University College London. He taught, and set up in practice with his friend Robin Spence. In 1972 they won a competition to design a prominent new parliamentary building adjacent to Big Ben and the House of Commons. Sadly, due to financial pressures on the Government the project was never built. Spence and Webster continued to practise, their output including a notable modernist pair of houses for their own occupation in Belsize Park, London. Robin Webster moved to Aberdeen in 1984 to become head of the school of architecture at Robert Gordon Univeristy. On retirement in 2005 he moved back to Gl;asgow, where he joined his daughter and son-in-law to set up an architectural practice. He was elected an academician of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1996 and served from 2018 to 2020 as President of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.