The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment (previously Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Scott Sutherland School of Art Architecture and Design) is situated on the Garthdee Campus of the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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The School has a long and distinguished history, its course in architecture being one of the first to be recognised by the RIBA. The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and the Built Environment recently celebrated its 50th anniversary on the Garthdee site. In 2007 97% of its graduates were in employment within six months of graduating.
The current head of School is Dr David McClean. The School offers a Master of Architecture and BSc(Hons) courses in Surveying, Architectural Technology and Construction Design and Management. Postgraduate courses include the Graduate Diploma in Surveying and MSc courses in Advanced Architectural Studies, Construction Project Management, Design Management and Property Development. The School undertakes research activities and expertise, and has a PhD programme, based in the Environments for People Research Centre.[1]
As the most northerly school of architecture in the UK, the School works closely with the North East of Scotland community but maintains links with both the rest of the UK and Europe. The student lecture society, appropriately named 57 10, hosts many luminaries from the architecture profession.
The campus is located in a parkland setting on the River Dee. The original 19th century Scott Sutherland building is still in use, while the new Business School and Library, Health and Social Care Building and Sports Centre are all fine examples of contemporary architecture.
The School has a close relationship with the adjacent Gray’s School of Art where students are encouraged to use the extensive workshop facilities. The Scott Sutherland School has a student-led lecture series which has run since 1988 and is called 5710, after the latitude of Aberdeen.[2]
The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, a long-established part of Robert Gordon University, has provided professionally accredited surveying courses since 1918.
The Scott Sutherland School was formed by the amalgamation of the School of Construction, Property and Surveying and the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture.
The School takes its name from Tom Scott Sutherland, an Aberdeen Architect and Entrepreneur, who gifted the School's Victorian Mansion house and grounds overlooking the River Dee in 1956, as well as making a generous bequest which is used to help finance study tours and visiting lecturers.
BDP is to design the campus for Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University and six of its buildings, including a new school of architecture.
The university’s director of estates Mike Berry said that while it was unusual for one architect to design all the buildings within a masterplan, this approach would help to avoid “the mad eclecticism” associated with new campus’ designed by several architects.
He said: “We’re a long way from unpacking this — it’s a 10 year vision. We want to create a sustainable campus in the fullest sense and we’ve appointed an organisation with the resources to do that.”
BDP landed the commission to design the £115 million Garthdee campus, west of the city centre, beating competition from Foster & Partners, RMJM, Edward Cullinan Architects, Capita Architecture, Pascall & Watson, Richard Murphy Architects and Sheppard Robson.
The practice’s Glasgow office will oversee the university’s move to the campus — a project that involves working up an earlier masterplan by RMJM — together with the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Gray’s School of Art. The scheme will bring the two together in a single school of architecture and art.
John McManus, a director at BDP Glasgow, said: “Designing a new building for the architecture and art schools is a dream project. Many of my colleagues are graduates of the school that they will help to redesign.”
Associate head of Scott Sutherland’s school of architecture Bassam Bjeirmi also welcomed BDP’s appointment to design a new building for his department, adding: “We’ll use the design and building process as a teaching aid for our students. It’s going to be very useful from a research point of view.”
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