Kate Macintosh

Catherine Ailsa "Kate" Macintosh MBE (born 1937) is a Scottish architect known for her work for local authorities. She designed Dawson's Heights in Southwark and 269 Leigham Court Road, a Grade II listed building in Lambeth.

Career Dawson's Heights - "one of the most remarkable housing developments ..." Macintosh was raised in Edinburgh. She studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, now part of the University of Edinburgh. After graduating in 1961, she spent a year studying in Warsaw on a scholarship from the British Council, then worked in Stockholm, Copenhagen and Helsinki before returning to the United Kingdom in 1964. Macintosh briefly worked under Sir Denys Lasdun on early designs for the National Theatre in London. She left the project soon afterwards in 1965 to work for local authorities in Southwark, designing public buildings. There, she designed the Dawson's Heights social housing estate in Dulwich, a project which was described in The Observer as "one of the most remarkable housing developments in the country".

In 2012, the Twentieth Century Society campaigned for Dawson's Heights to be designated as a listed building, but the recommendation was unsuccessful. A similar campaign in 2015 to have 269 Leigham Court Road listed by Historic England as a Grade II building was successful.