Robert Whiteside is an architect with Solearth.

Robert Whiteside has an Honors Degree in Architecture, from Dublin School of Architecture D.I.T. His thesis examined an old village that has been enveloped by the city of Dublin, and worked on how its Urban and natural environment might coexist in a balanced way to support the human soul.

He was selected for a one year Erasmus exchange at The Architecture School of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen. Here he explored how an ethical architecture can promote social equality and how architectural form can become landscape.

He also graduated with distinction from The Furniture College, Letterfrack, Co. Galway. The furniture he made there explored combining native hardwoods with steel and fine details of colour.

He has studied and worked as a Furniture maker and Architect living for considerable time in both the natural beauty of rural Ireland and the urban environment of Dublin and Copenhagen. As a result he appreciates the characteristics both environments and lifestyles offer. He is particularly interested in the ethics of an architecture that is appropriate to its environmental context, in balance with nature and truly supportive to its human inhabitants. This is supported by his admiration of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and the outlook on life this tradition gives.