Geoffrey Jarvis

After a spell at Kelvinside Academy, Jarvis transferred to Glasgow Academy where, in 1945, he played in the 1st XV and was school captain.

"The tech" (later Strathclyde University) admitted him as an architectural student in 1948 and he learned to draw at the Glasgow School of Art in the days when architects were taught to draw not only buildings but also from life, a skill he always retained.

He qualified in 1953 and, after a spell in America working with Marcel Breuer, he set up practice in Glasgow. Ironically, after his very successful "new build" of the Chivas Brothers headquarters in Paisley, Jarvis gained a reputation for restoration.

This led to projects such as Culzean Castle Home Farm Visitor Centre, the Clan Donald Centre on Skye, Edinburgh Castle Visitor Reception Feasibility Study and the restoration of the Duke of Hamilton's eighteenth-century hunting lodge at Chatelherault near Hamilton. All these - and others - won architectural awards, including a RIBA Award for Chatelherault.

He was passionate about buildings and, long before it was fashionable, he became a great publicist for re-evaluating the outstanding quality of Glasgow's architecture.

Close involvement with the Glasgow Tree Lovers Society, which his mother founded in the 1930s, resulted in his promotion of a campaign to tidy up the south bank of the River Clyde at Carlton Place. This was followed by a campaign to locate Glasgow's proposed concert hall on the opposite north bank.

The North Bank Committee evolved into a larger and wider amenity society with Jarvis as its instigator and natural leader. Tradition suggests he conceived the New Glasgow Society in his bath - its launch in Greek Thomson's St Vincent Street Church drew a crowd of more than 1700.

The society was to have considerable influence on the re-evaluation of Glasgow's architecture and led to a political acceptance of a policy of restoration and conservation of city buildings. For many years he was an outspoken member of the Glasgow Urban Design Panel.

Strikingly handsome, Jarvis managed to avoid matrimony until he met Rosalind Bailey, a daughter of the manse, and they married in 1971.

In the early 1990s, Jarvis's heritage interests turned more towards the River Clyde. He was involved with the formation of the Clyde Maritime Trust which brought the 1896 Clyde-built sailing vessel Glenlee back from Spain for restoration, and he set up Clydebuilt, an associated support group.

Also under the wing of the Clyde Maritime Trust, he formed Clyde Festival Gardens, an innovative attempt to persuade the powers-that-be to turn the former Glasgow Garden Festival site at Prince's Dock into a visitor attraction similar to the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.

With the announcement that the Royal Yacht Britannia would be decommissioned in 1997, Jarvis appreciated that such a steamship would be much more representative of the force that brought about the development of Clyde shipbuilding.

He and others agreed that the derelict A-listed dry docks at Govan would be an ideal place to celebrate Clyde maritime heritage with Britannia as the centrepiece.

Jarvis was chairman of this group that became the Clyde Heritage Trust. He was greatly disappointed by the decision, one that could only have been taken by politicians. They had delivered the ultimate insult to Clyde shipbuilding by awarding such an iconic Clyde-built ship as Britannia to a final berth in Edinburgh.

Jarvis turned his attention to gathering volunteers to work on an idea that started life as a proposal for a book but eventually became a sophisticated interactive CD on the history of Glasgow.

In all his professional work and campaigns, his aim was to "do his best and encourage others to do likewise". In this he enjoyed considerable success, being ably assisted by Rosalind. He shared her well-developed sense of humour, together with the ability to see and enjoy the ridiculous aspects of any situation.

Very much aware of environmental issues, latterly he also took a serious interest in creating awareness of climate change, becoming passionate about the condition of the planet being left to future generations.

Towards the end of his life, both he and Rosalind knew that he hadn't long to live, which gave them a closer intimacy and time to discuss arrangements for the future. And although he suffered all the discomfort and indignity that his illness entailed without complaint, his indomitable spirit and enthusiasms continued to shine.

Geoffrey Jarvis died peacefully at home in the company of his wife Rosalind and children, Michael, Lolo, Grahame and Jeeka. He is also survived by his brothers, John and Michael.