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KATE MACINTOSH
Curriculum Vitae
1961
Graduated Edinburgh College of Art (now Heriot Watt university)
1961-62
British Council Scholarship to Warsaw Polytechnic
1962-63
Stockholm office Lennart Bergstrom
1963
3 months in the office of Klaus Bremmer Copenhagen.
1963-64
Helsinki office Toivo Korhonen, competition projects.
1964-65
Denys Lasdun, National Theatre project.
1965-69
London Borough of Southwark, designed Dawsons Heights, Overhill Rd. Dulwich. Published AR Preview Jan. 1967, Building Study, 25th April AJ 1973. Also see “Hill Housing” by Derek Abbott & Kimball Pollit Granada 1980. ISBN 0 246 11203 4
1969-72 London Borough of Lambeth designed Leigham Court Rd. Housing, published AD 1974. DOE Housing Commendation. 1972
Sheltered
Arup Assocs. worked on Kensington & Chelsea Depot.
1972-74 Ahrends Burton & Koralek, designed holiday development St. Raphael 1974-86
East Sussex County Architects Team Leader & Project Archt. Halton Fire Station, Hastings, see AJ 3rd May ‘78 Maresfeild Fire Brigade Training HQ, see AJ 28th Nov. ‘79. Civic Trust Commendation. Polegate Old Persons Home. see AJ 16th Dec.’81 Thornwood Old Pers. Home & Sheltered Housing. Bexhill see AJ 25th May ‘83. Preston Rd. Brighton, Family Centre. Civic Trust Commendation. Lewes Fire brigade Communications Centre, Civic Trust Commendation. Battle Langton Primary School, Battle.
1986-95
Hampshire County Architects Senior Architect designing:Rushmoor Fire Station, Rushmoor Borough Civic Design Award ‘94. see “Schools of Thought”, Richard Weston 1991. Priory Sec. School Sports Hall & Music Suite. Portsmouth Society ‘93 award for best building & best landscaping; see Architecture Today September ‘96 Solent Infants School. see June ‘95 issue 59 Architecture Today. Portsmouth Society ‘95 award for best building. Audley’s Close Centre for Handicapped Adults complete July ‘96. Garden Studio for Finch Macintosh Architects, Winchester, complete 1995.
1995-2008
Private Practice as partner in Finch Macintosh Architects Weston Adventure Playground, Southampton. RIBA Award 2005. Published World Sustainable Construction ISBN978-7112-07151-7 & Sixty Six World New Architecture. ISBN 7-5611-3318-9
. Work in the Schools of Architecture. K. Macintosh tutored at Portsmouth, lectured as a visitor Brighton, Bath, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh Heriot Watt, the Mackintosh School, University of East London, Aberdeen, Birmingham, the Bartlette & Canterbury. She has just completed 4 years as external examiner for the degree courses of both the Universities of Westminster and of Central England. RIBA K. Macintosh was elected to the RIBA Council in 1972 and was a Vice President for Public Affairs in 1996. She was the first chair-person of the “Women's Architect Group”. She chaired “RIBA Conference Working Group” for the 1974 Conference in Durham on Cities and Transport. K. Macintosh was both an organiser and an exhibitor in the exhibition of the work of British women architects, “Women Architects-Their Work”, during the RIBA Festival of Architecture 1984. K. Macintosh also exhibited subsequently in a touring exhibition of the work of women architects, organised by the RIBA. Conservation 1978-’84 K. Macintosh was Secretary to the “Sussex Heritage Trust”. The Chairman of the Trustees was the Earl of March. Professional Activism Was the first Chair of Architects for Peace, launched in 1981. This combined with the parallel engineering group in 2000 and more recently combined with Scientists in SGR. K. Macintosh is former Vice-Chair and sponsor or Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR). Media K.Macintosh is one of the architects featured in a documentary film by Punchcard TV, about post WW2 public-sector buildings in London. This film “Utopia: London” will be released Summer 2009. There is an entry in ‘Debrett’s People of Today’ under Catherine Macintosh.
Women in Architecture
Women have been accepted in UK schools of architecture for a little over 100 years. 1905 first woman accepted to RIBA membership--- not without some protests.
1978 Joint PSA RIBA report on the position of women in the profession. This showed that the proportion of women architects was tiny and increasing at a glacial pace.
The Public Sector was shown to be a good place for women to rise in their profession and escape discrimination The LCC was the first employer in the country, after WW2 to abandon a ban on the employment of married women and only in 1952 as equal pay for equal work introduced, much before other employers.
1980 the RIBA set up its own monitoring Group, which I chaired. This reported in 1985 showing that we were (contrary to our self-image) lagging way behind other professions, such as law & medicine, in attracting & retaining female talent. We were then 6.1% women, compared with 24.7% for doctors, 15% solicitors. As a result of work by our group, all sexist language was expunged from RIBA literature.
Since the destruction of the public sector, in which approx half the profession worked, the long-hours, family-unfriendly culture has got worse, so it has been a deteriorating situation all round, but particularly so for women. The percentage of women entering architectural studies increased from 27% in 1990 to 38% in 2002/3. Though in Law the comparable figures are 63% intake & 37% practicing.
But the percentage who graduate & practice is now about 19%, an average rise of 0.43% a year, but the really bad news is that the proportion of unemployed women architects is double that of men!