Bairdstravel is at present trying to learn more about Glasgow`s most famous designer . Today I took a walk along to Mackintosh House
next to the University. Amazing, in March the amount of people having a look round . He is very popular with the American tourists . Charles was years ahead of his game.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (June 7, 1868 – December 10, 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, and watercolourist. He was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main exponent of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had a considerable influence on European design.
Charles Rennie MacKintosh
Above Art School
The building was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the first half of the building was completed in 1899 and the second in 1909.
The Mackintosh Building — or "The Mac" as it is colloquially known — is the heart of the campus and continues to be a functioning part of the school. It primarily houses the Fine Art Painting department, the Interior Design department, first year studios and administrative staff. It also houses the Mackintosh gallery which holds many different exhibitions throughout the year. The gallery is the only part of the Mackintosh building open to the general public; all other areas are of the school are only viewable by guided tour. An exception to this rule is the Degree Show where all the studios within the Mackintosh building are opened to allow people to view the graduating year's final artworks.
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The Mackintosh House
The Mackintosh House is a modern concrete building, part of the gallery-library complex. It stands on the site of one of two rows of terraced houses which were once sections of Hillhead Street and Southpark Avenue, demolished in the 1960s to make room for the University's expansion across the residential crown of Gilmorehill. One of the buildings lost, 78 Southpark Avenue, was formerly a home to Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (although Mackintosh himself did not design it). The University rebuilt the form of the house (using modern materials) approximately 100 metres from the site of the original. Due to its displacement, one door now hangs precariously above a 20 foot drop, the ground on what was once Hillhead Street having been radically excavated during the construction. The Mackintosh House features some of the original woodwork of the old terraced house, and has been furnished entirely to Mackintosh's design, with original decorations and furniture.
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Queen's Cross Church is a former Church of Scotland parish church in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the only church designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh to have been built, hence it is also known as the The Mackintosh Church.
Queen Cross church
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Alexander "Greek" Thomson (9 April 1817 – 22 March 1875) was an eminent Glaswegian architect and architectural theorist who was a pioneer in sustainable building. Although his work was published in the architectural press of his day, it was little appreciated outside of his city during his lifetime. It has only been since the 1950s and 1960s that his critical reputation has revived -- not least of all in connection with his probable influence on Frank Lloyd Wright.
Grecian Chambers (Commercial), 336-356 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. 1867-68
