Page\Park Architects have been announced as winner of a competition to restore Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art (GSA).

On January, the Glasgow School of Art has announced the five names of the architects’ practices shortlisted to lead the restoration of the Mackintosh Building. Now the scottish parctice, Page\Park Architects have won the commission to lead a team to restore the world renowned Charles Rennie Mackintosh Glasgow School of Art,  and will now develop a project to restore the library and all other building’s areas devastated by fire on May of last year.

The official Glasgow School of Art press release is below.-

There was a major step forward in the restoration of the Mackintosh Building today, Tuesday 31 March 2015 as The Glasgow School of Art announced the appointment of the design team that will lead the project. A team led by Page\Park Architects has been appointed following presentations by a shortlist of five practices earlier this month.

The Glasgow based architects have an extensive track record in both restoring and reinvigorating major historic buildings. They have also worked across the spectrum of Mackintosh's designs from the domestic at the Hillhouse, through commercial at the former Glasgow Herald offices - now the Lighthouse, to his finest cultural and academic work at the School of Art itself - as lead designers for the Heritage Lottery Fund supported Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2007-9)

“The team assembled by Page\Park Architects impressed us not only with their deep knowledge of the building, but of the wider work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh,” says Professor Tom Inns, Director of The Glasgow School of Art. “They displayed a superb methodology to the task of restoration – in particular their Room by Room analysis of the structure, materiality, craftsmanship and intent of Mackintosh in designing, specifying and overseeing the construction of his masterwork. “They also bring an understanding of the building’s particular importance to Glasgow – its people and history - as well as of its status as an international design icon.”

“Although the design team will lead the programme, the GSA will have a fundamental role in the development of the detailed restoration plan. We were particularly impressed by the openness of Page\Park to work in partnership with the GSA as we set out on an exciting journey of discovery.

There will be many fascinating questions to be addressed as we undertake this complex restoration project. We are looking forward to working in partnership with Page\Park Architects and the design team to explore how we can best meet the needs of the GSA in the 21st century whilst remaining true to Mackintosh’s astonishing vision.”

“Page\Park Architects are delighted to have won the commission to lead a team to restore the world renowned Charles Rennie Mackintosh Glasgow School of Art,” says David Page, Head of Architecture at Page\Park Architects . “We have, over many years, had the privilege to work on and in the context of the Mackintosh legacy, the highlight of which will now be the opportunity to bring The Glasgow School of Art into splendid re-use for its students and staff, the people of Glasgow and the huge audience beyond the city.”

Page\Park Architects have ongoing relationships with key crafts specialists and artists in Scotland and wider afield, and presented exciting proposals for expanding the legacy of the restoration by working with a new generation of creative talent. They will also establish an external expert advisory panel for the restoration. Further details on the composition and role of the panel will be released in the coming weeks.

The design team will now work with The Glasgow School of Art to develop the detailed plan for the restoration. Work is expected to start on the building in early 2016 with the hope that the majority of the spaces will be up and running for the 2017-8 academic year.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an architect, designer and Scottish watercolorist, which had fundamental importance in the Arts and Crafts movement and was also the leading exponent of Art Nouveau in Scotland. He was the father of Elizabeth Nicol Rennie also followed in his footsteps.

Protomodernist (forerunner of modernism). Tries to reform breaking with the above. He rose to fame after exposing your furniture in the Secession in Vienna in 1900 and was part of the group "The Four" of Glasgow, created in 1897, its main figure.

He took elements of Arts and Crafts, and was very well accepted by the Belgian Art Nouveau opposition (he was a hero to the Secession).

It was one of the most prominent architects of characters linked to Art Nouveau (including Victor Horta), but after 1913 did not receive more orders.

In 1884 he was apprenticed in the studio of architect John Hutchinson, where you would be forming for five years. At the same time, he attended night classes in drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art, acquiring great skill in drawing and design as well as a watercolorist. This was a period of hard work but at the same time, rewarded with several awards. It would be in the evening classes where he met the people who later formed The Four group (Four), the sisters Frances Macdonald and Margaret Macdonald, who would later marry, and Herbert MacNair, colleague working at studio Honeyman & Keppie, where come to work in 1889 and remained until 1913. in 1890, the granting of travel grant Alexander-Thomson, which won the design of a public building of classic Greek style allowed him to go in 1891 France, Italy and Belgium for three months. In 1896, his project won the competition for the Glasgow School of Art (1896-1909), his masterpiece.

In collaboration with his wife, he furnished from 1896 several tearooms in Glasgow; also he received orders from England and abroad for villas and homes; including one for a music room for Fritz Waerndorfer.

The Four group also participated in the VIII exhibition of the Viennese Secession 1900.

In 1915 the marriage Mackintosh moved to London, where he remained until the end of his life, except for the years 1923 to 1927, during which he lived in Port-Vendres (France), where he devoted himself to painting (watercolors).

Mackintosh in London devoted to graphic works and book arts.
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Published on: April 1, 2015
Cite: "Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh Restoration by Page\Park Architects" METALOCUS. Accessed
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