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Glasgow School of Art is one of the great works of
arts and crafts architecture of the turn of the century.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's response to a difficult
site and demanding brief is a creative synthesis of
opposites: austere and delicate, dark and bright,
derivative yet innovative. Whilst the exterior impres-
sion is one of imposing grandeur, the building's
sombre façade and towering outer wall owe much to
the Scottish baronial tradition and the interior reveals
itself to be a lively and complex set of spaces.
Although quoting art nouveau in some of the detail-
ing, the overall effect looks forward rather than back;
indeed Nikolaus Pevsner was to single out the interior
as an early example of the sort of spatial effects
which were later to be central to the modern
movement.
Dr James Macaulay is senior lecturer in architectural
history at the Mackintosh School of Architecture,
Glasgow. He has been chairman of both the Society
of Architectural Historians of...
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Glasgow School of Art is one of the great works of
arts and crafts architecture of the turn of the century.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's response to a difficult
site and demanding brief is a creative synthesis of
opposites: austere and delicate, dark and bright,
derivative yet innovative. Whilst the exterior impres-
sion is one of imposing grandeur, the building's
sombre façade and towering outer wall owe much to
the Scottish baronial tradition and the interior reveals
itself to be a lively and complex set of spaces.
Although quoting art nouveau in some of the detail-
ing, the overall effect looks forward rather than back;
indeed Nikolaus Pevsner was to single out the interior
as an early example of the sort of spatial effects
which were later to be central to the modern
movement.
Dr James Macaulay is senior lecturer in architectural
history at the Mackintosh School of Architecture,
Glasgow. He has been chairman of both the Society
of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and the
Architectural Society of Scotland. He is the author of
The Gothic Revival, 1745-1845 and The Classical
Country House in Scotland, 1660-1800 and con-
tributed to Mackintosh's Masterwork: The Glasgow
School of Art and Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The
Architectural Papers.
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