Robert Matthew was a Scottish architect born in Edinburgh. He attended the Edinburgh College of Art and in 1946, he moved to London as Chief Architect of London County Council, working on the post-war reconstruction of Greater London and masterminding the Festival of Britain including such buildings as the Royal Festival Hall, 1951. In 1956, with Stirrat Johnson Marshall, he established the firm of RMJM (Robert Matthew, Johnson Marshall) in Edinburgh and London. Their first project was New Zealand House in the Haymarket. By 1953 he returned to Edinburgh to become the first Professor of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh, where he ran the Department of Architecture in collaboration with RMJM, in a manner that has been compared to Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus. There is now the Matt