After Ruth Reed, first woman president of RIBA, it’s now Karen Anderson’s turn: she’s in fact just been announced as new Chair of Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS), the Scottish body created in 2005 by the Scottish Government in order to “inspire better quality in design and architecture so that Scotland’s built environment contributes in a positive way to Ministers strategic objectives and the National Outcomes.”

Karen Anderson, already a Board member of Architecture and Design Scotland and a former Commissioner of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland, graduated from Glasgow’s Mackintosh School of Architecture in 1984 and is a founding partner of Anderson, Bell Christie Architects (estabilished in Glasgow in 1991), with significant experience in social housing and community involvement in re-development, masterplanning and urban and rural design guidance.

Back to Ruth Reed, here’s a message from Su Butcher (yet another pivotal woman in architecture!), via her twitter account:

Today Ruth Reed, first ever woman president of the RIBA, is in Chelmsford for a Q&A session – got a question? #ruthreed
Tag your answers #ruthreed and we can pick them up

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