Sir Donald Insall

Architect and Planner, Founder, Donald Insall Associates Ltd
Founded practice in 1958 (Chairman 1958–1998), now Consultant

Appointments include:

Member of the UK Council, the International Council on Monuments and Sites.
Member of Advisory/Fabric Committees, Westminster Abbey, and now Southwark and Canterbury Cathedrals. Member of Architectural Advisory Committee, the World Monuments Fund (UK).
Vice President (1994–), The Building Crafts and Conservation Trust (previously Trustee from 1990 to 1993).
Council Member, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (1979–2005).
The European Commission: Expert Committee on the European Architectural Heritage, Brussels.
President (1994): the Association for the Study of the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB).
Architect Member of HM Government Inquiry: Fire Safety in the Royal Palaces (1993).
Founder-Commissioner, The Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission (English Heritage); and Member of the Commission’s Historic Buildings Advisory Committee and Historic Areas Committee (1984 to 1989).
Patron: the Bedford Park Society; the Kew Society, the Environmental Trust for Richmond-upon-Thames.

Author:

“The Care of Old Buildings Today” (1972)
“Living Buildings. Architectural Conservation: Philosophy, Principles and Practice” (2008; reprinted 2018)

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