Oliver Chapman

BA(Hons) M.Arch RIBA ARIAS
Director of Oliver Chapman Architects and Schop

Practice: WTArchitecture
Websites: http://www.oliverchapmanarchitects.com/
www.schop.org.uk

Profile

Oliver established the practice in 1997 having worked previously at Richard Murphy Architects (Edinburgh), MacCormac Jamieson Pritchard (London) and Max Rieder Architektur (Vienna).

Oliver combines practice with teaching Architecture at the University of Edinburgh and Urban Design at the School of Planning, Heriot Watt University. Oliver has considerable experience designing in the care and health, public building and residential sectors, developing projects which have garnered a number of awards for the practice, including an RIBA Regional Award in 2008.

He also founded Schop in 2008. This is an initiative dedicated to bringing the work of artists engaged in the built environment to a wider audience and providing structured learning programmes on architecture including evening courses available to everyone. Future plans for Schop include a postgraduate summer course for international students which will address questions that affect Edinburgh’s changing built environment.

Projects, completed (selected)

Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns for Scottish Borders Council and Berwickshire Housing Association. RIBA Regional Award 2008
Church Hall and Community Centre, Dundee.
Prototypical rural affordable sustainable houses, Swinton, Berwickshire.

Projects, in progress (selected)

Baha’i Faith National Headquarters, Edinburgh
Two houses at Scotland’s Housing Expo, Inverness

Competitions

Art Gallery for Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place. Shortlisted.  To be announced.
Bord Gais National Gas Network HQ, Dublin, 2008. Selected to second stage.
Lifetime Homes, Homes for the Future, Mail on Sunday. Finalist 2009.

Exhibited

The Lighthouse, Glasgow, ‘Architecture in Scotland 2006-2008, Building Biographies
Royal Scottish Academy Summer Exhibition, Edinburgh 1999, 2000 & 2007

Publications

‘New Architects 2: A guide to Britain’s best young architectural practices’, Merrell, 2001.
Features in Architect’s Journal, Building Design Magazine, RIBA Journal, Prospect.
Occasional writer contributor to Blueprint magazine