Editing Basil Spence (section)

==Early career==

[[File:Southside Garage, Causewayside Edinburgh.jpg|thumb|Southside Garage in the art deco style]]

After graduating in 1931, Kininmonth and Spence set up in practice together, based in a room within the office of [[Robert Rowand Anderson|Rowand Anderson]] & Paul (at that time having [[Arthur Forman Balfour Paul]] as sole partner), in Rutland Square, Edinburgh. The practice was founded on two residential commissions which Kininmonth had obtained that year. Spence also received commissions to illustrate other architects' work, including the Southside Garage, on Causewayside, Edinburgh, in an [[Art Deco]] style (although credited to Spence his name appears nowhere on the official warrant drawings and only appears as a signature on the artist's perspective).<ref>City of Edinburgh Council: Building Warrant Archive</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=Not enough information in the citation to permit verification|date=October 2022}}

In 1934 Spence married, and the Kininmonth & Spence practice merged with Rowand Anderson & Paul. [[Arthur Forman Balfour Paul|Balfour Paul]] died in 1938, leaving Kininmonth and Spence in charge of the renamed Rowand Anderson & Paul & Partners. Spence's work was now concentrated on exhibition design, including three pavilions for the 1938 [[Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938|Empire Exhibition]] in [[Glasgow]], and country houses.

The first two of these, [[Broughton Gallery|Broughton Place]] at [[Broughton, Scottish Borders|Broughton]] near [[Biggar, South Lanarkshire|Biggar]], and [[Quothquan]] in [[Lanarkshire]], were executed in traditional Scottish styles at the client's request. The third was entirely modern. Gribloch was designed for John Colville, grandson of the founder of Colville's Iron Works, and his American wife. It was designed in a modernist [[Regency architecture|Regency]] style, with assistance from Perry Duncan, an American architect hired by the Colvilles when Spence was too busy with exhibition work to progress the project.