Mary Arnold-Forster

Joins the expedition for week 4

Mary Arnold-Forster is a principal with Dualchas Building Design based on Skye and Glasgow. She has been with the practice for 12 years. She has been responsible for some 40 houses in those years on Harris, Uist, Coll, Islay, Mull, Skye, Muck, Colonsay and the mainland. She was the architect for Raasay Community hall which recently won an RIBA award and for the new hall currently under construction on Muck.

She specialises in sustainable architecture in peripheral locations and is committed to using renewable technologies. She has currently on site an off-grid house off Harris, the hall on Muck and houses on Colonsay, Tiree and Skye. She has taught at Aberdeen, Dundee, The London Metropolitan and The Prince of Wales university and has lectured in England, Scotland and Wales. She has worked and written for The Lighthouse.

She trained at Cambridge, London and Glasgow. Her ambition is to cycle, kayak or walk to every project.