Doug Clelland

Visiting professor of architecture, the University of Malta (2012 to 2014).

Author of the curriculum and visiting professor of architecture at Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey (2005 to 2008).

He returned to teaching in 1994 as the Herbert James Rowse Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Liverpool John Moores University, where he remained until 2010. Since then he has acted as a professor of architecture at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin – and professor of architecture at the University of Malta.

He returned to full-time teaching in 1994 in Liverpool, and from 2010 until today, Clelland has mixed practice, teaching and writing – in recent years committing more time and resources to travel and, as with many colleagues and friends, to a reflection on globalisation.

Clelland has served on the City of London and Westminster Society of Architects (CLAWSA) branch of the RIBA, and on the Council of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. He has served as a Governor of the Bramber Nursery School in Fulham, West London. He has been an invigilator and reader for the RIBA on the Dissertation Medal in 1994, 1995 and 1996 and has been Chairman of the Projects Committee of the Merseyside Civic Society. He has been a participant in the Standing Conference for Heads of Schools of Architecture (SCHOSA) and has been active in the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE).

Clelland lived largely from 1989 until 1991 in Glasgow, where, during his home city's role as European Capital of Culture, he conceived and managed the keynote event Glasgow's Glasgow.

Final Year Studio Tutor, the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow, 1988 and 1989 during enabling work for the European Capital of Culture, 1990.

Visiting professor of architecture, the University of Calgary School of Architecture, Alberta, Canada, 1986 and 1987. Design Studio and theory courses.

Maintaining bases in London and Berlin, he participated widely in the Internationale Bauausstellung (1984-1987), was a member of a series of juries for pivotal competitions in post-1989 Berlin, and completed two buildings there, one for Siemens.

His involvement with Berlin commenced in 1977 and since then, he has published a number of journals on the city, was involved in the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) from 1984 to 1987, and designed buildings for Siemens and GSW Immobilien. He was elected to the Berlin Architektenkammer in 1992.

He was one of the first two students to be influenced by Dalibor Vesely – working with him on a collaborative project for Kentish Town, London in 1972.

Returning to the UK to complete his formal architectural education at the Architectural Association, he commenced private practice in 1972 and completed a set of small buildings in London, Nackington near Canterbury and Forgandenny in Perthshire. Continuing to have his base in London, the Weinreb Studio in Highgate, London (1988), received a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) regional award and the Gartnernes Forsikring in Taastrup, Denmark (1989) a Danish design award.

He taught at the Architectural Association from 1971 to 1975, sharing units with Daniel Libeskind and Dalibor Vesely – then moved on to the Polytechnic of Central London (PCL), where he ran the urban architecture studio until 1988.

The Diploma School of the Architectural Association, in the period on either side of 1968, was a hotbed, in terms both of the political climate outside 34-36 Bedford Square, and the bloodless transferral from the era of the Smithsons to the era of Boyarsky-Cook.

Moving to Toronto in 1967 following a year at Kingston School of Art, he worked in the office of John Andrews and then, when travelling in Canada and the United States for a year, he spent time working in the studios of American architects, including a period with Louis Kahn, whose thinking and work was influential.

In 1963, he commenced part-time architectural education at the Glasgow School of Art, moving to London in 1966, then in 1967 to Canada and the United States, working for different architects. He completed his formal architectural education at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, obtaining his diploma in architecture in 1970.

Clelland began his working life in 1963 in the Education Architecture Department of Glasgow Corporation, studying architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture part-time.

Douglas Jarvie Clelland (a.k.a. Doug Clelland) is an architect, educator and author born on 13 May 1945. As an architect, he has practised as Clelland Associates (1972 to 1996), Aire Design (1996 to 2007) and JARVIE Architecture and Writing (2015 to the present). His most recent completed building is an extension to The Mulberry House School in London. He has also acted as a design consultant to JIG Architects (2007 to 2015). He has taught widely, most recently as the Herbert Rowse Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Liverpool John Moores University (1994 to 2010) and professor of architecture at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin in Berlin (2013 to 2016). He is currently emeritus professor at Liverpool John Moores University and continues to teach in Berlin. He has written extensively as an academic, and most recently is the author of two non-architectural hybrid narratives – God's Brains and Joyful Darkness – which explore collisions within the contemporary world, and the tragic consequences inherent in the ever-growing hegemony of materialism.

Doug Clelland was born in Glasgow in May 1945, attended Eastbank Primary School until the age of nine, after which he completed his schooling at Hutchesons' Boys Grammar School – now Hutchesons' Grammar School.