He also directed architectural history and conservation at Edinburgh College of Art, and later Heriot-Watt University.
He was a founder of the Dictionary of Scottish Architects Project,[1] and was instrumental in setting up the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland.
[2] Studying at the British School in Rome he returned to Scotland in 1951 to work with architect Stewart Kaye and with the National Building Record.
[4] In the 1970s, he was approached by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner who, having completed the series The Buildings of England, was keen to extend the project to cover the rest of the UK.
He designed a desk and a bookcase incorporating copies of a portrait medallion of Robert Adam by James Tassie, for the Cabinet Room in Bute House, the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland.