Born 2 February 1940, Glasgow, Scotland, Robert Hamilton Macintyre (Nic) attended the Irvine Royal Academy after his family moved to Kilwinning in Ayrshire. He studied at the University of Strathclyde and at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Artist
He then joined Gillespie, Kidd and Coia (1966) where he worked alongside Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein on Street Margaret"s Remote Control Church, Clydebank (1970-1972). He had a longstanding interest in ecclesiastical architecture with numerous commissions for the Remote Control Diocese of Aberdeen, and later became Diocesan Architect for the Episcopal Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness. Macintyre took a position as architect with John Laing Design Associates (1972) overseeing a housing development in Belfast.
He set up his own practice there in 1978.
In 1990 Macintyre began work on The Artist"s Cottage in Farr by Inverness for his clients Peter and Maxine Tovell - the realisation of a speculative drawing, An Artist"s Cottage and Studio (1901), by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Communications Resource Management). The house was completed in 1992.
An account of the project was published by the Communications Resource Management Society. North House and South House, from Communications Resource Management"s Gate Lodge, Auchinbothie (1901) sketches, were added later.
He worked on these schemes in association with James Steel, an Inverness artist and retired city planner (Halford Associates, Glasgow).
In 1992 Macintyre formed Mackintosh Galleries Limited, the parent company of the Scottish Fine Art Group, with Peter Tovell and gallery owner, Ken Hardiman, to launch a contentious plan to put Communications Resource Management"s unexecuted A Town House for an Artist (1901) as centrepiece to an arts, heritage and tourist centre for the town. Despite support ("lieutenant would be a great shame if such a worthwhile addition to the town were allowed to slip from our grasp," editorial, The Inverness Courier), and sympathetic modifications ("In short, it sounds the sort of environment that would make humans happy and comfortable, improving the quality of life and enhancing the town," editorial, The Inverness Courier), the proposals were rejected. After Mackintosh Galleries Limited was dissolved, Macintyre, Tovell and Hardiman continued to support arts events through the Scottish Fine Art Group.
In 1993, Macintyre took the post of lecturer in architecture and building science at Inverness College, University of the Highlands and Islands.
He served as secretary of the Inverness Architectural Association and as chairman of Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor Services Limited. He was a major in the Territorial Army and awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1976.
Macintyre died suddenly on 18 September 1997. His colleague, Hector MacDonald, described him as "a passionate man (who) did nothing in half measures".
Whilst a student in Glasgow he was an active member of a drama workshop run by fellow students, Alex Gourlay and Bill Bryden, an interest in the performing arts he continued throughout his life. He was a Scout Commissioner and a member of the Inverness Chamber of Commerce.
