Mike Duriez was a British designer and educationalist based in Edinburgh. Duriez was an influential figure in Scottish architectural education, teaching at the University of Edinburgh during the later decades of the 20th century. He presided over a golden age of architectural education at Edinburgh, in which figures such as Andrew Gilmour, Terry Russell and Martin Birket held tremendous influence. This period entered its Goetterdammerung
with the arrival of Isi Metzstein in the mid-1980s. His students, who included notable architects such as John MacAslan and Richard Murphy, were often traumatised by his thorny, viscous manner and sheer breadth of interests. Duriez was a recognisable figure on the Edinburgh landscape, who always wore a cravat dating back to an earlier period. He had amassed an important collection of modern Scottish paintings.
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