Isi Metzstein

Isi Israel Metzstein (7 July 1928 – 10 January 2012) was a German-born Scottish architect who worked at Gillespie, Kidd & Coia and taught at the Glasgow School of Art. He became known for his postwar architectural designs working in the European modernist style of Le Corbusier and the American Frank Lloyd Wright.

Early life Isi Israel Metzstein was born in the Mitte district of Berlin in 1928, one of five children.

Personal life Metzstein married Danielle "Dany" Kahn in 1967 and the couple had three children, including Saul.

He died on 10 January 2012 at their home in Dowanhill, Glasgow.

Legacy Writing of Isi Metzstein's death for Architectural Review, Clare Wright noted that:"With a change of ethos post war, Coia ceded much of the design control to the young Isi and Andy. An early project for St Paul’s Church in Glenrothes (1957) is a modest building of simple form and materials, yet exhibits an extraordinary quality of light and monumental presence which owed much to Le Corbusier. The sixteen churches that followed formed a distinctive body of work. Combining functional requirements with resonant symbolism, they were the perfect vehicle for developing an architectural philosophy, which reached its most mature expression in the design for St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross."