Registration, practice history, teaching and awards for Isla Renwick, architect in Edinburgh.
Architect · stone, brick and timber · Edinburgh
I run a one-architect practice in Edinburgh working on houses, retrofits, studios and small civic rooms across Scotland. I draw everything myself, take on four or five projects a year, and stay on site through construction. Registered architect since 2012.
Strata (own practice) · Edinburgh
Founded the practice on Candlemaker Row. Thirty-eight completed buildings to date, most of them in stone, brick or timber; nine of them alterations to listed buildings, all consented first time.
Duncan & Mair Architects · Edinburgh
Ran a small team on housing and community buildings in the Lothians and the Borders, including a 34-home rural housing scheme and a village hall that still gets rented every weekend.
Studio Halvard · Copenhagen
Two years on brick and concrete housing in Nordhavn. Learned to detail a parapet properly and to draw a mortar joint at 1:1 before believing it.
Moray Stone Trust · Elgin
Surveyed and drew eleven ruined steadings for the Trust's conservation register, and spent the summer on a wall with a mason learning how a coursed rubble wall actually goes up.
Edinburgh College of Art · Edinburgh
Thesis: a working quarry as a public building, with the cut faces of the rock as the rooms.
University of Strathclyde · Glasgow
Architects Registration Board
Scottish chartered practice register
Conservation accreditation register
Scottish Design Review awards, public building
Scottish Stone Guild, conservation and reuse
Edinburgh Small Projects Prize
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Aberdeen
One week a term with third-year students, building a quarter-scale wall and then drawing it.
Talk, Edinburgh architecture lecture series
Workshop, Scottish Lime Guild