JOHNNY RODGER Writer, critic and Professor of Urban Literature at the Glasgow School of Art, Johnny Rodger is also the editor of The Drouth magazine and the author of over a dozen books, including The Hero Building and Disappearing Glasgow. He will be appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday 12 August
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CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH is revered as a great architect, but his claim to fame as an environmentalist is not often heard. There’s one room in his masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art, where I think the latter claim is thoroughly sustainable: the library.
This is no dry, dusty, secluded place; rather, Mackintosh created an environment that comes alive through endless tensions between juxtaposed elements.
This story is from the July-August 2017 edition of Homes & Interiors Scotland.
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