Alistair John Rowan is an Irish

architectural historian An architectural historian is a person who studies and writes about the history of architecture, and is regarded as an authority on it. Professional requirements As many architectural historians are employed at universities and other facilities ...

, a retired university teacher, a building conservationist and an author of British, Irish and Italian architectural history.Official Website he Royal Institution of Great Britain http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001169 (Accessed 19 December 2010) Rowan was an architectural writer with '' Country Life'' before 1967, when he became lecturer in Fine Art in the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

. Thereafter Rowan became the first professor of the History of Art in

University College, Dublin University College Dublin (), commonly referred to as UCD, is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 38,417 students, it is Ireland's largest ...

(U.C.D.), and later Principal of

Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is one of eleven schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Tracing its history back to 1760, it provides higher education in art and design, architecture, histor ...

. He was

Slade Professor of Fine Art The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College, London. History The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collect ...

at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

for 1988–89. Photographs contributed by Rowan to the Conway Library are currently being digitised by the

Courtauld Institute of Art The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. The art collection is known particularly for ...

, as part of the Courtauld Connects project.

Memberships

Rowan has served on the Council of the

National Trust for Scotland The National Trust for Scotland () is a Scottish Building preservation and conservation trusts in the UK, conservation organisation. It is the largest membership organisation in Scotland and describes itself as "the charity that cares for, sha ...

, on the

Historic Buildings Council for Scotland Three separate historic buildings councils were created by the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953, one for each of England, Scotland, and Wales. Each Historic Buildings Council advised the relevant government minister on the exercise ...

and has been President of the

Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) is a United Kingdom learned society for people interested in the history of architecture. Purpose The Society exists to encourage interest in the history of architecture, to enab ...

and of the

Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland (AHSS) is a society dedicated to the protection and study of the built heritage of Scotland. It has around 1000 members and five regional groups responsible for commenting on planning applications in ...

Books

* Alistair Rowan, ''Garden Buildings'', The RIBA Drawings Series, London, Country Life Books, 1968 * Valerie Fiddes and Alistair Rowan, ''Mr. David Bryce, An Exhibition to mark the centenary of Scotland’s Great Victorian Architect,'' University of Edinburgh, 1976 *Alistair Rowan, ''North West Ulster: Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh, and Tyrone.''

Buildings of Ireland Series The ''Pevsner Architectural Guides'' are four series of guide books to the architecture of the British Isles. ''The Buildings of England'' series was begun in 1945 by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, with its forty-six original volumes pub ...

. Dublin:

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, 1979 () * Alistair Rowan, ''The Creation of Shambellie: the story of a Victorian building contract'', Edinburgh,

Royal Scottish Museum The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a museum of Scottish history and culture. It was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland, with collections relating to Scottish antiquities, culture and history, ...

, 1982 * Alistair Rowan, ''Designs for Castles and Country Houses by Robert & James Adam'', Oxford, Phaidon Press Ltd, 1985 () * Alistair Rowan, ''Robert Adam, Catalogue of Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum'', London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1988 () * Christine Casey and Alistair Rowan. ''North Leinster: the Counties of Longford, Louth, Meath and Westmeath.''

. London:

, 1993 ()Google Books
(Accessed 19 December 2010) * Alistair Rowan, ‘''Bob the Roman’ Heroic Antiquity & the Architecture of Robert Adam'', London,

Sir John Soane's Museum Sir John Soane's Museum is a Historic house museum, house museum, located next to Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn, London, which was formerly the home of Neoclassical architecture, neo-classical architect John Soane. It holds many drawings and ...

, 2003 () * Alistair Rowan, ''Vaulting Ambition: The Adam Brothers, Contractors to the Metropolis in the reign of George III'', London, Sir John Soane’s Museum, 2007 () * Susanna Pasquali and Alistair Rowan, ''Alessandro Papafava e la sua raccolta'', Vicenza, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, 2019 () * Kenneth Milne and Alistair Rowan, ''St. Bartholomew’s, A History of a Dublin Parish,'' Dublin, Hinds, 2019 ()

References

External links

Professor Alistair Rowan
archival collection at

Canmore Canmore may refer to: *Canmore (database), a Scottish national online database of ancient monuments; *Canmore, Alberta, a town in Canada; *the House of Dunkeld, a royal house that ruled Scotland in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries, including **Malc ...

Year of birth missing (living people) British architectural historians Irish architectural historians Academics of University College Cork Academics of the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh College of Art Academics of University College Dublin Living people Slade Professors of Fine Art (University of Oxford) Country Life (magazine) people {{Ireland-historian-stub