Brian Clouston

Brian Clouston is a British landscape architect, and founder of Brian Clouston and Partners (BCP) once the largest landscape architecture practice in Europe. Clouston was trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh and at the University of Newcastle. He is a past President of the Landscape Institute, the UK professional body for landscape architecture. Clouston started his professional career at Durham Council Council in 1960 but left in 1965 establishing BCP.In the 1970's his practice worked on landscape and reclamation projects throughout the Middle East, in particular in Jeddah and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. In the late 1970's Clouston established an office in Hong Kong which was managed by Alan Tate from which many large scale Landscape Design projects were completed, notably at Shatin Park. Additional offices were opened in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and in the main Australian cities. In the late 1980's the United Kingdom part of Clouston's company merged with RPS PLC, Clouston being Chairman until 1993.

Books

Brian Clouston is the author/editor of the following books:
* "Landscape Design with Plants", Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977
* "After the elm..." edited by Brian Clouston & Kathy Stansfield, William Heinemann, 1979
* "Landscape by Design", William Heinemann, 1980 (with Tony Aldous)
* "Trees in Towns: Maintenance and Management", Architectural Press, 1981 (with Kathy Stansfield)