Mackintosh Architecture

Tomorrow sees the opening of the first substantial exhibition devoted to Mackintosh’s architecture, with over 80 architectural drawings, many never exhibited before, rarely seen archival material, and specially commissioned films and models.

Mackintosh Architecture celebrates the completion of a major research project led by The Hunterian, 'Mackintosh Architecture: Context, Making and Meaning'.

The Scottish architect and designer, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928), is celebrated worldwide, hailed variously as an exponent of art nouveau, a modernist, a symbolist, an artist-architect. Understanding of his architectural career has tended to focus on a familiar group of buildings and unbuilt designs, marked out by the individuality of their formal design and detailing.
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‌‌‌By contrast, the ‘Mackintosh Architecture’ project aims to establish a more rounded picture, placing Mackintosh within the context of the office of John Honeyman & Keppie / Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh and its extended network of clients, contractors and suppliers. High and low-status buildings are acknowledged – both were part of the professional architect’s output. And due weight is given to the functional and constructional aspects, financial and other practical constraints, which shaped a design as well as its aesthetic qualities. Particular emphasis is placed in the exhibition on Mackintosh’s domestic designs, which comprise some of his most significant achievements.

The exhibition runs from 18 July 2014 - 4 January 2015 and then it moves to London.

I was over at the Hunterian this morning listening to a presentation by Professor Pamela Robertson on the Mackintosh Architecture Project and managed a quick visit of the exhibition during the press launch.