Helen McNamara
Helen McNamara is an interior architect and designer who graduated in 1976 from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, before working as a designer in London and Argyll and as a senior design lecturer in Glasgow. She has worked with BBC Education on learning content for the design of homes, and within a Scottish government learning and skills organisation where she held a senior management role.
In recent years she has assisted a number of interior design projects including commissions by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, Austin:Smith Lord Architects, Sir John Stirling Maxwell Allotments and private home interiors.
Her passion is the architecture of contemporary homes and in 2017 she published her first novel, The Architectress, a story of three women that pays homage to Glasgow, to the Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht and to the transformation of 19th century homes for 21st century living.
She lives with her cat in a small 21st century apartment in Glasgow.
