Lesley Kerr
Lesley was trained at the University of Strathclyde and began her professional career in Glasgow with McGurn, Logan, Duncan & Opfer Architects and then with Cooper Cromar Associates.
In 1991 Lesley became a self-employed architect specialising in small housing and office projects, conversions, new-build and conservation work. In 1996 she began freelance work with Simpson & Brown on the restoration and conversion of six Georgian town houses in Edinburgh to form the new headquarters for the National Trust for Scotland. She then went on to work as a freelance architect for Page & Park Architects in Glasgow. She specialised in historical research on St Vincent Street Church in Glasgow for the Alexander Greek Thomson Trust and a study of the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh for the Royal Mile Phase II project.
Lesley joined Simpson & Brown permanently in 1999. She was the Conservation Architect for the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, part of in the Playfair Project to extend the National Galleries of Scotland.
