ROGER EMMERSON was born in Edinburgh. He has worked in London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Edinburgh, running his own practice, ARCHImedia, from 1987 to 1999 while concurrently teaching architectural design at Edinburgh College of Art and as a visiting lecturer at universities in Venice, Lisbon, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Berkeley. Since 2000 he has worked extensively in architectural conservation, housing, education and the leisure industries throughout the UK, retiring from architectural practice, although not architecture, in 2016.

I am overwhelmed by the outstanding range of your scholarship, plus your unremitting polemic...In any event, the book is an exceptional achievement by any standards… perhaps it is more than one single study, but rather a compressed work of a lifetime! - KENNETH FRAMPTON, architectThis densely researched and lucidly written book is an important contribution to the history of Scottish culture in general and architecture in particular. - BILL HARE

ROGER EMMERSON was born in Edinburgh. He has worked in London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Edinburgh, running his own practice, ARCHImedia, from 1987 to 1999 while concurrently teaching architectural design at Edinburgh College of Art and as a visiting lecturer at universities in Venice, Lisbon, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Berkeley. Since 2000 he has worked extensively in architectural conservation, housing, education and the leisure industries throughout the UK, retiring from architectural practice, although not architecture, in 2016.

I am overwhelmed by the outstanding range of your scholarship, plus your unremitting polemic...In any event, the book is an exceptional achievement by any standards… perhaps it is more than one single study, but rather a compressed work of a lifetime! - KENNETH FRAMPTON, architectThis densely researched and lucidly written book is an important contribution to the history of Scottish culture in general and architecture in particular. - BILL HARE

ROGER EMMERSON was born in Edinburgh. He has worked in London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Edinburgh, running his own practice, ARCHImedia, from 1987 to 1999 while concurrently teaching architectural design at Edinburgh College of Art and as a visiting lecturer at universities in Venice, Lisbon, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Berkeley. Since 2000 he has worked extensively in architectural conservation, housing, education and the leisure industries throughout the UK, retiring from architectural practice, although not architecture, in 2016.

I am overwhelmed by the outstanding range of your scholarship, plus your unremitting polemic...In any event, the book is an exceptional achievement by any standards… perhaps it is more than one single study, but rather a compressed work of a lifetime! - KENNETH FRAMPTON, architectThis densely researched and lucidly written book is an important contribution to the history of Scottish culture in general and architecture in particular. - BILL HARE