Scottish Architecture
Scottish Architecture (World of Art Series)
Miles Glendinning, Aonghus MacKechnie
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Paperback 224 pages (2004)
Publisher: Thames and Hudson ISBN: 0500203741
196 illustrations 68 in colour
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Scottish Architecture
World of Art series
Miles Glendinning & Aonghus MacKechnie
A richly illustrated survey of the complete history of Scottish architecture,
from the circular houses of Skara Brae to the new Parliament at Edinburgh.
In spite of its close links with England and continental Europe, Scottish
architecture has a distinct and definable character of its own, due as
much to geography as to history. From prehistory we have the circular
houses of Skara Brae, older than the pyramids; the Middle Ages produced
the tower-house with its unique form. In the 18th century the Scottish
were the 19th and 20th centuries, with such figures as Alexander 'Greek'
Thomson and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Miles Glendinning and Aonghus MacKechnie bring these diverse movements
and architects to life, while setting them in their wider cultural context.
The built environment has always been one of the central strands of Scottish
identity, and this book, is the only concise and up-to-date survey of
the whole history of Scottish architecture.
About the Authors
Miles Glendinning is head of the Topographical and Threatened Buildings
Surveys at RCAHMS. Aonghus MacKechnie is Principal Inspector of Historic
Buildings at Historic Scotland, Edinburgh.
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of their book Scottish Architecture at The RIAS Gallery, 15 Rutland Square,
Edinburgh on Thursday 11 March from 6-8pm. For tickets please contact
RIAS Events on 0131 229 7545 or events@rias.org.uk
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Paperback 106 pages (2003)
Publisher: The Lighthouse ISBN: 0953653358
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A History of Scottish Architecture
Miles Glendinning
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Hardcover 576 pages (1996)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 0748607412
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Synopsis
This text combines a factual description of the key architects and
their
work in each period of Scottish history with a wide-ranging analysis of
their social, ideological and historical context. Since Scotland has often
been closely involved with new trends in "Western" architecture,
the book
highlights the interaction of Scottish developments with the broader
European and international movements. From the beginnings of the
Renaissance in the 15th century to the present day, this survey covers
the
post-medieval history of architecture in Scotland.
Tower Block:
Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
(Paul Mellon Centre)
Stefan Muthesius, Miles Glendinning
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Hardcover 428 pages (1994)
Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300054440
Synopsis
After World War II, the most urgent reconstruction problem in these
islands was in the field of public housing, and the opportunity presented
itself to create innovative buildings and to finally abolish slums.
Everyone, including the slum-dwellers, united behind the plan to build
new
dwellings as quickly as possible. In this book Miles Glendinning and
Stefan Muthesius tell the story of a great adventure of building and
explain the architectural and political ideas that lay behind it. The
authors tell how high-rise blocks - buildings in a modernist design that
promised to address scientific and social needs with unprecedented
precision - were constructed in almost every urban area. They explain
that
architects and planners working for a few "progressive" local
authorities
were the first to create the new housing patterns, and that powerful local
politicians determined to "give the people homes" later encouraged
widespread large-scale implementation of these patterns.
The authors discuss where the buildings were built and why they looked
as they did, describing various designs, construction methods, and community
layouts
through the 1950s and 1960s. Numerous illustrations and plans complement
the text. This book - with its interweaving of architecture and politics,
theory and practice, and local and national issues - will interest not
only architects and historians of the postwar era but also readers
interested in the growth of the Welfare State. The book includes a
gazetteer of significant housing developments in Britain that is arranged
by regions.
Clone City:
Crisis and Renewal in Contemporary Scottish Architecture
Miles Glendinning (Editor), David Page (Editor)
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Paperback 192 pages (2001)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 0748662553
Synopsis
This work brings architecture into the mainstream debate about Scottish
cultural identity, analyzing the ways in which contemporary, market-led
globalization has fragmented and debased the Scottish urban environment,
creating the "Clone City" - the product of uncontrolled, mass-produced
urbanization. The book provides a step-by-step exploration of the core
issues behind this debate, providing a generalist manifesto for
contemporary architecture in Scotland. The authors show how, with a
radically different vision, architecture can actively help to build a
new
Scottish identity and democracy, not just in a few symbolic national
monuments but across the whole urban environment. Broad in scope, it is
not written specifically for architectural professionals, but is equally
directed to the informed general reader
For students reading Architecture or related subjects to Urban Design
in
Scotland, this book is a must. For other readers it will give a
fascinating insight into the current state of architecture within the
boundaries of Scotland. Miles Glendinning is an eminent writer and
historian and David Page is a founding partner of Page and Park Architects
in Glasgow. This unusual combination of professions has lead to a book
that paints a stark picture of Scottish Architecture in its current
condition and then formulates solutions to the problems. I found the
script hard reading in places but overall this book was undoubtedly
informative and entertaining. The format with carefully interspersed
pictures displaying both the good and bad areas of design in the region
is
excellent.
The Architecture of Sovereignty:
Parliamentary, Civic and Government Buildings of Scotland
Miles Glendinning (Editor), Aonghus MacKechnie (Editor), Richard Oram
(Editor)
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Paperback (2003) Publisher: Tuckwell Press ISBN: 1862322562
Synopsis
This illustrated book - a historical overview of Scottish buildings
of
government and assembly from the Middle Ages to the present day - sets
Scotland's new parliament in the broader context of the nation's
architectural and social history.
"The Architecture of Sovereignty" is one
of a series of authoritative books on key building types by RCAHMS -
Scotland's national survey and archive of the historic built environment.
In sharp contrast to the traditional Victorian and early 20th- century
concept of the grand, monumental parliament building standing self-centred
and in isolation, it shows how parliaments have found just one element
in
a complex and constantly changing mosaic of buildings of legislation and
administration, both national and civic. And it demonstrates how this
architectural complexity has mirrored the ever-shifting patterns of
Scottish society itself. In "The Architecture of Sovereignty",
the
evolution from feudalism to Presbyterian imperialism and, in turn, to
modern social democracy is, literally, inscribed in stone - in the great
halls of kingly power as much as in the town halls of Victorian civic
pride and the towers of 20th-century welfare administration.
Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-1975
Miles Glendinning (Editor)
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Paperback 205 pages (1997) Publisher: Tuckwell Press ISBN: 189841033X
Synopsis
The early post-war decades witnessed a national reconstruction drive
of
unprecedented vigour - a revolution in architecture and building, whose
uncompromising modern monuments still dominate Scottish towns and cities.
This book, drawing on a series of national symposia and exhibitions staged
by DOCOMOMO (Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement) and
other key organizations, presents an introductory reassessment of a
quarter-century of vigorous, but until recently misunderstood transformation
of Scotland's built environment. Some of the papers evoke this era's sheer
energy, the vast quantity and scale of its building, and the passion which
fuelled programmes, such as the housing "crusade". Some recall
its constructional and technical daring.
Others, by contrast, emphasize that architecture, as an art, flourished
undiminished during those years of modernity in design. This was a period
of complexity and conflict, in its often tempestuous debates and ideas,
and yet also one of simplicity - of consensual confidence in progress
and rationality in
building.
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