The Scottish Thirties: An Architectural Introduction

by Charles McKean

Many aspects of modern Scotland had their origin in the Thirties: a period of substantial economic and welfare programmes, of suburbs, of mass housing estates, of open-air schools and hospitals, of hiking, of touring and dancing. This book charts how society changed through the architecture of pleasure, the architecture of commerce, the architecture of living, and the architecture of health and education, concluding with a section on the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1987

About the author

Charles McKean was a Scottish historian, author and scholar. He was the author of architectural guides to Stirling, Dundee, Edinburgh, London, Cambridge and East Anglia.

For many years he was a pillar of the of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), serving as chief executive, secretary and treasurer between 1979 and 1994.

He was architecture correspondent for The Times and Scotland on Sunday. He was a professor at the University of Dundee from the mid-1990s and was still its Professor Emeritus of Scottish Architectural History when he died.

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