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Charles Rennie Mackintosh was Scotland's greatest architect and arguably one of the world's most admired. He had far fewer commissions than his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright but with a few bold and innovative structures - the Glasgow School of Art and Hill House among them - he had a profound influence on art and architecture at the turn of the twentieth century. Like Wright, Mackintosh designed in totality, down to the furniture and fabrics used in his structures, and he was influenced by the Japanese, particularly in the simplicity of his designs and themes from nature. Hailed as a pioneer of modernism, Mackintosh was, however, perhaps truer to the Arts and Crafts movement than has been realized. With both historic photographs and modern images of Mackintosh's major works taken by the noted architectural photographer Mark Fiennes, this is an essential and beautiful addition to the Mackintosh canon and to architectural history.
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James Macaulay is a former senior lecturer at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and former chairman of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland.
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Format:Hardcover
A real quality book with good information and associated pictures that cover the many aspects of his work. Recommended as a 'coffee table' book rather than one to sit and read from cover to cover.
Format:Hardcover
A lavishly produced book .The written section , I found, a bit hard going,scholarly but rather dull.The author has tried hard but the paucity of recorded material on Mackintosh's childhood and his life in general rather shows. Excellent photographs of Mackintosh buildings--The book is perhaps destined for coffee tables rather than Libraries.
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Format:Hardcover
Monograph that promises much but delivers less, with slightly lumpen text that conveys little of the man or an excitement with his work. Plenty of drawings but lacks the critical mass of recent photographs which might have justified parting with your cash.
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