Elected ARSA: 20 March 1963
Elected RSA: 12 February 1975
Sir Anthony Wheeler PPRSA was born, educated and began his training in formal classical architecture in 1938 at the Glasgow School of Architecture in the Royal Technical College. This training was interrupted and extended by his service during the Second World War. He qualified in 1948 and went on to work an assistant post to the Oxford City Architect and in 1949 became Senior Architect at Glenrothes Development Corporation.
His first sizeable commission was a scheme for fifty council houses, The Bowery, in Leslie. For this, he received the 1956 Saltire Society Housing Award for good housing. It was this award that launched the firm’s career and heralded over twenty years of near-dominance in the design of place-sensitive housing intervention in Fife.
Wheeler was a busy man, becoming a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission, a trustee of the Scottish Civic Trust, President of the RIAS, Vice-President of the RIBA and receiving an honorary doctorate from Robert Gordon University in 1991. He was elected President of the RSA from 1983-90 and established the Friends of the RSA membership.
