Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 – 1928) is probably Glasgow’s best-know architect. While recent headlines having been about the fire which destroyed much of the iconic interior of his Glasgow School of Art and the competition to select architects for its rebuilding, the Royal Institution of British Architects (RIBA) is holding an exhibition of over 60 […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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