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Right: 'Interior of City Church,
Esquisse'. Edinburgh College of Art
architectural portfolio, 1943.
Courtesy of RCAHMS (A C Wolffe
Collection). DP155082
Bottom right: 'Plan of City Church'.
Edinburgh College of Art
architectural portfolio, 1943.
Courtesy of RCAHMS (A C Wolffe
Collection). DP155093
Left: Design for bandstand. Edinburgh
Mound Competition, 1983. Courtesy
of RCAHMS (A C Wolffe Collection).
DP158197
proposal for a ‘Church in a Park’ as part of the Rowand Anderson
studentship competition, highlight Wolffe’s artistic side. They illustrate
not only the more artistic elements of Wolffe’s work, but a certain
idyllic appeal of a church set within a landscape.
While a student of the Town and Country Planning course, Wolffe
was asked to carry out a study of Scottish industry. The results
interested Sir Frank Mears and led to an offer of employment as
planning assistant to Mears, following the completion of the Town
and Country Planning course. RCAHMS holds Wolffe’s collection of
work from his study of Scottish industry, which consists of maps and
innovative pictorial graphs of population against coal and steel
output, and illustrates how they had all grown