Modernist Scotland

By Bruce Peter

An architectural journey through 150 Post-War Buildings by Bruce Peter—a comprehensive, fully illustrated exploration of Scotland's bold modernist legacy.

Coming November 2025 - pre order your copy here

This comprehensive study documents the revolutionary architectural movement that transformed Scotland's built environment in the decades following World War II. Through meticulous research and stunning visual documentation, Peter examines 150 significant modernist structures that shaped Scottish cities, towns, and landscapes—from pioneering housing schemes and civic centres to innovative educational and cultural buildings.

Peter understands that modernism in Scotland wasn't some imported Continental affectation but an indigenous mutation, born of post-war optimism and municipal socialism.

Jonathan Meades

Modernist Scotland aims to be a living history and a manifesto, seeking to encourage greater understanding and appreciation of Scotland’s post-war built heritage and of the many diverse manifestations of the modern movement to have arisen there. This is necessary because since the 1970s many fine post-war buildings and environments have been neglected, unsympathetically altered or destroyed and many more – ranging from very large examples, such the Cumbernauld Town Centre megastructure, to small buildings such as pubs, houses and churches – are at risk. 

The Modernist Society gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Mark Fitch Fund, which has helped to make this publication possible.

Hardback

416 pages; Colour & black and white photographs.

232mm x 177mm

ISBN 978-1-0682995-1-3