John Lowery
MA
Senior Lecturer in Architectural History

Room: 2.55
Tel: 0131 650 2314
Email: j.lowrey@ed.ac.uk

Architecture: School of Arts, Culture and Environment (ACE)
The University of Edinburgh
20 Chambers Street
EH1 1JZ, Scotland

Publications

Lowrey , J (2000) 'The urban design of Edinburgh's Calton Hill', St Andrews Studies in the History of Scottish Architecture and Design, Vol.5, pp. 1-12.

Lowrey , J (2000) 'The furnishings of Queensberry House , 1700-25', Regional Furniture, Vol.14, pp. 44-62.

Lowrey , J and Ben Tindall Architects (1999) 'A conservation plan for the Usher Hall, Edinburgh'.

Lowrey , J (1999) 'Archives and archaeology: the prehistory of Queensberry House , Edinburgh', Scottish Archives, Vol.5, pp. 29-40.

Lowrey , J (1998) Queensberry House: Part of the Scottish Parliament Site. Report for Historic Scotland, 60 pages.

Lowrey , J (1998) Queensberry House: Report on the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Architectural and Garden History: Report for Historic Scotland, 30 pages.

Lowrey, J. (1996). Landscape Design and Edinburgh New Town, in The Neo Classical Town, Rutland Press.

Lowrey, J. (1996). Robert Adam and Edinburgh, Rassegna, No.64.

Lowrey, J. and Lewis, A. (1994). James Craig: Architect of the First New Town of Edinburgh, Architectural Heritage V, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 39-50.

Lowrey, J. (1992). The Influence of the Netherlands on Early Classicism and the Formal Garden in Scotland, Journal of The Scottish Society for Art History.

 

Scottish Parliament Project

The Scottish Parliament, designed by the late Enric Miralles in partnership with RMJM, is under construction on a site in the Canongate, near Holyrood Palace. Since the selection of this site in 1998, there has been a large-scale research project involving historians and archaeologists, under the auspices of Historic Scotland. This multidisciplinary approach will produce a major publication to coincide with the opening of the parliament in 2004, combining the urban, social and architectural history of the area along with a detailed archaeological study, which will also include the standing buildings archaeology of the site.

John Lowrey is the architectural historian on this project, looking mainly at the period from 1500 to the present day. The focus of this work is on Queensberry House, the seventeenth century town house of the Duke of Queensberry, which lies in the centre of the new parliament project.