Glasgow City Heritage Trust team:
from L to R: Helen Kendrick , Jo Hall, Gordon Urquhart, Torsten Haak.
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Torsten is from Hamburg, Germany, where he worked as a cabinetmaker for four years before studying for a Diploma in Architecture at Hamburg University and at Heriot-Watt University. A two-year stint in Japan as an English teacher followed and a further year at Dundee University studying for an MSc in European Urban Conservation. He then worked for two and a half years as the Buildings Adviser for the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust. After managing the Arbroath Abbey to Harbour Townscape Heritage Initiative for four and a half years, he started his work in Glasgow in May 2007. |
Gordon Urquhart, Grants Officer
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Gordon was born in New York City. He first returned to his father’s native Scotland in 1979 to study Scottish History as an exchange student at King’s College, Aberdeen. Between taking a BA in History at Hamilton College, New York and an MSc in Architectural Conservation at Columbia University, he lived and worked in Edinburgh’s New Town. In 1988, he left New York and settled in the West End of Glasgow. For fifteen years he was Assistant Director with the Glasgow West Conservation Trust, during which time he co-wrote The West End Conservation Manual. Gordon has written and lectured widely on traditional building technology, architectural conservation and local history. In 2000 he published Along Great Western Road, the first comprehensive history of the West End of Glasgow. |
Helen Kendrick, Communications and Projects Officer
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Helen’s background is in museums and galleries and she worked in public and commercial art institutions in Bristol, Brighton and London before relocating to Glasgow in 2004. Here she developed her interest in Glasgow’s turn-of-the-century architecture and design through working on a research and conservation project for the Mackintosh-designed Ingram St Tearoom collection for Glasgow Museums. After a spell at The Lighthouse as Education Co-Ordinator for the Six Cities Design Festival, she started with the Glasgow City Heritage Trust in 2007. |
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Jo is the Office Administrator and the first point of contact for the Trust. She has worked within an administration background for over 20 years and has experience of working within local government and the private sector in various settings. |