Roger Land Building, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh

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Roger Land Building, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh
Roger Land Building, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh

By Basil Spence and Partners, 1961-5. Long 2-storey modernist education block situated around a courtyard. Frame comes right outside; black steel uprights carrying panelled walls, elegantly related and finely detailed.


Designed as the headquarters of the Animal Research Organisation it provided study facilities, administration space, and a small conference facility. Today it houses the Institute for Stem Cell Research and School of Biological Studies and is known as the Roger Land Building.


The drawings and the photographs in the Sir Basil Spence Archive show the research laboratories in one part of the building, with a parallel area containing the administrative offices; at first floor level they are connected by a library. On the ground floor the plans show a house, possibly for a member of staff. The house was provided with a private garden, cleverly sheltered from the surrounding university buildings, and opening out to the inner courtyard terrace.


Roger Burton Land FRSE (1940-1988) was an eminent 20th century British animal geneticist. As Head of the Edinburgh Research Station he was one of the several scientists responsible for laying the groundwork for the creation of Dolly the Sheep. He did postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh in 1962 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1985.

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