Influences of the Architectonic Heritage in Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art

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The most direct knowledge of the architectural heritage during the training of architects is produced through the drawings contained in their travel sketchbooks. This communication aims to analyze the influences that these teachings operated on Charles Rennie Mackintosh during the design process of the Glasgow School of Art.
Our objective is to transcend the formal approaches that have been made in the preceding publications to attempt to reveal the mechanisms inherited from the study of vernacular buildings in the methodology that Mackintosh used in this project.
To support the hypothesis, this essay not only analyzes the previous writings, but also the original sources of the graphic material developed by Mackintosh archived in the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Glasgow and the National Library of Ireland in Dublin.
This article proposes a circular route that begins with the education of Mackintosh in Glasgow, continues with the medieval architectures drawn in Britain and Italy, and culminates with the proposal for the educational building back to his Scottish hometown.

​The most direct knowledge of the architectural heritage during the training of architects is produced through the drawings contained in their travel sketchbooks. This communication aims to analyze the influences that these teachings operated on Charles Rennie Mackintosh during the design process of the Glasgow School of Art.
Our objective is to transcend the formal approaches that have been made in the preceding publications to attempt to reveal the mechanisms inherited from the study of vernacular buildings in the methodology that Mackintosh used in this project.
To support the hypothesis, this essay not only analyzes the previous writings, but also the original sources of the graphic material developed by Mackintosh archived in the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Glasgow and the National Library of Ireland in Dublin.
This article proposes a circular route that begins with the education of Mackintosh in Glasgow, continues with the medieval architectures drawn in Britain and Italy, and culminates with the proposal for the educational building back to his Scottish hometown. Read More