03 — ARTWORK
Exterior view: front façade
MACKINTOSH, Charles Rennie · 1906 →
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Designed between 1903 and 1906, Scotland Street School was Charles Rennie Mackintosh's last major commission in Glasgow, displaying the mature architect's geniusin classical Rome, a person's invisible tutelary god. In art from the classical period onwards, the low-ranking god was depicted as a winged, usually childish figure. to perfection. A functioning school until 1979, the building now houses a museum of the history of Scottish education and a galleryan upper story, similar to a tribune, running along the side of a building and open on one side to the interior; in a church (basilica) above the side aisles, over the ambulatory (central-plan building) and also over the west end. The gallery was used to keep certain groups of worshippers apart (women, noblemen). of contemporary artworks about that history.
In the twin stair towers of Scotland Street School, Mackintosh left a void between the curved outer screen of glass and the staircase, two elements that were later united by Walter Gropius in the Fagus Factory (1911), Alfeld-an-der-Leine, Germany. At Scotland Street, the separation permits an uninterrupted upward view through each tower to the traditional carpentry supporting the conical roof. The towers and the tall ranges of windows between them have their sources in the 16th-century Falkland Palace, Fife, which Mackintosh sketched (Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow).
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title = {Exterior view: front façade by MACKINTOSH, Charles Rennie},
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date = {2026-09-13},
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