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The appointments of the Chair and Deputy Chair of Architecture and Design Scotland were announced on 7th December 2004 by Patricia Ferguson, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport.

The Chair is Raymond Young, an architect and a former senior member of staff of Scottish Homes who is based in rural Perthshire. He was one of the founder members of ASSIST, the community architecture practice that pioneered both tenement rehabilitation and community based housing associations in Glasgow. He was a member of the UK Sustainable Development Commission from 2000-2004.

He has worked with both the Housing Corporation and Scottish Homes, latterly as Director of Research and Innovation. Since 1997 he has run a part-time regeneration consultancy with clients in the UK and Denmark from a sustainable straw bale office in Perthshire. He is non-executive Board member of Historic Scotland, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, and a visiting professor at the Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde, and Chair of the Rural Housing Service.

The Deputy Chair is Professor Brian Evans.

Brian Evans, an urban designer and planner, is based in Glasgow and is a partner in Gillespies, one of the United Kingdom's leading urban and landscape design practices. From 1998 until 2004, he was artistic professor of urban design at Chalmers University School of Architecture, Gothenburg, Sweden. Professor Evans is a member of the Enabling Panel of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment in England.