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GSA celebrates Mackintosh building with events programme

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

November 16, 2009 | 3 min read

The Glasgow School of Art is holding a host of events, tours, conferences and exhibitions, starting this month and running to June 2010 to celebrate the centenary of the School’s Mackintosh Building.

Recently voted the best British-designed building of the last 175 years in a national survey commissioned by the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Mackintosh Building is regarded by many as Mackintosh’s best-known and most respected building.

The focus of the celebrations during November and December will be Centenary Day on Tuesday 15th December 2009, marking exactly 100 years since the official opening of the Mackintosh Building. To mark this, in the morning the School is running special anniversary tours of the building for 100 members of the general public followed by the unveiling of a unique centenary donor plaque, designed and made by staff within the GSA’s School of Design, acknowledging the support of the hundreds of people who have supported the £8.7m Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project. This will be accompanied by music from the Scottish Ensemble and a performance by renowned writer Liz Lochhead.

From 4pm, the films Seven till Five – a day in the life of an art school (1933) by GSA graduate and pioneering film-maker Norman McLaren and the recent BBC documentary about the building, Mackintosh’s Masterpiece, will be projected onto the east and west façades of the Mackintosh Building for the public.

Director of The Glasgow School of Art Seona Reid said: “It is a pleasure to be able to celebrate the centenary of a building which has meant so much to so many people. This 100 year old building is, of course, a building of striking and important architectural heritage and, with support from Heritage Lottery Fund and many other supporters of our Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project, we are working hard to ensure we can look forward to celebrating its bicentenary in another hundred years! But the Building is not a museum. It is a working Art School building, full of students and the life they bring to it. As much as its poetic and inspiring design, that is what makes the Mackintosh Building so special.“

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