Taylor, James

James Taylor was born on 3 June 1890 [probably in Scotland] and was articled to William Craig Boyd (1877-1958) in Glasgow from 1904 to 1910.  He then worked as a draughtsman to the architects John Melvin & Son in Alloa, Clackmannanshir; structural engineers A. & J. Main in Glasgow from 1910 to c.1915; and the architects and to the structural engineers F. A .MacDonald & Partners in 1917-18.

Taylor commenced independent practice in Glasgow in 1919.  He was a versatile architect known for his  bold modernist designs.  projects ranged from private dwellings to schools, healthcare facilities, cinemas, to office buildings and factories. In 1922 he was acting architect on behalf of the executors of the architect James Murdoch Dalziel Henderson who died that year.

Taylor was elected both a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1931.  Throughout his career as an architect he lived and worked in Glasgow. He died in Helensburgh, Scotland on 9 January 1977