4 Reflections This book provides an overview of studying Limited Edition cover 1 of 4 Terms and Conditions List of Officers at the GSA and in Glasgow, and features Each cover represents a school at the GSA This magazine is a general guide. links to more specific information on – Architecture, Design, Fine Art or Graduate The information it contains is as far Patron our website, and other content such Studies – the page content is the same in each. as possible up to date and accurate HRH the Prince Charles, as video, accessible directly through at the time of publication, but is subject Duke of Rothesay your smartphone via QR codes Credits: to alteration without notice. The GSA or via the website at www.gsa.ac.uk 1. To The Sky, Ben Weir, Stage 4 Architecture 2014 will use all reasonable endeavours to Honorary President 2. 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Barr Claire Biddles Photography McAteer Photograph (unless otherwise stated) Letterpress Hothouse typeface cut by Roy Mohan Shearer and printed by Edwin Pickstone Contents Reflections on an art school 4 The City of Glasgow 10 21st Century Campus 14 The Mack: An Archive of Memories 36 Material Girl 40 Glasgow 2014 46 Melancholia, the ‘modern’ re-turn, and everyday miracles 56 Architecture, Literature and a City 62 The Next Generation 68 Designs on the City 76 Changing Places 82 Morphing Tradition:MacMag 86 A Space Between (Digital at GSA) 88 Our Alumni 92 Travels with my Art 96 GSofA Singapore 102 Back to the Vic/Music and Glasgow 106 A-Z Directory: Programmes, Info + How to Apply 116 6 Reflections Left: Renfrew Street View, Mackintosh Building and Reid Building, Reid Building opening, May 2014 RefLectiOns ON Opposite: Reid Building opening, May 2014 aN aRT SCHOOL Vimeo The Glasgow School of Art practising artists, designers and detailed programme specifications, Video and film available free to view The GSA is internationally recognised architects, such as Ciara Phillips courses and electives, useful from a range of GSA activities. as one of Europe’s leading university- (Turner Prize nominee 2014), information on making your Subscribe here level institutions for the visual creative Brian Cairns (Gold Medal Winner, application as well as a host of www.vimeo.com/glasgowschoolofart disciplines. Our studio-based approach Society of Illustrators), and Professors content to discover from student to research and teaching, brings Charlie Hussey and Charlie Sutherland and departmental blogs, video and disciplines together to explore (Stirling Prize nominees). Many of social media. By visiting these Facebook problems in new ways to find new our staff are engaged in research pages you’ll get the most up to Keep in touch with friends and the innovative solutions. The studio creates of international and national date information and can contact School’s goings-on the environment for inter-disciplinarity, significance, with 50% of our departments directly with any www.facebook.com/glasgowschoolofart peer learning, critical inquiry, research ranked as world-leading other questions. experimentation and prototyping, or internationally recognised. All GSA degree programmes are Join our community of applicants at helping to address many of the Many students choose to remain validated by the University of the GSA Registry page, where you grand challenges confronting society in Glasgow after graduation because Glasgow, with whom we also jointly can speak to other prospective students and contemporary business. of the unique network of creative offer some of our programmes – and Registry can answer your queries Since the School was founded in people, spaces and organisations BDes/MDes/MSc Product Design about the application process. 1845 as one of the first Government in the city, and are joined by artists, Engineering; MSc Medical www.facebook.com/gsaregistry Schools of Design, as a centre of designers, architects, writers and Visualisation and Human Anatomy; creativity promoting good design musicians from around the world who and MLitt Curatorial Practice. for the manufacturing industries, are drawn here by the quality of life Twitter our role has continually evolved and and the clear sense of creative Graduate Studies Come tweet with us at redefined to reflect the needs of the opportunity. Within these pages you’ll Our taught masters programmes www.twitter.com/gsofa communities we are part of, find a glimpse into that community. offer a range of study areas including embracing in the late 19th century fine Join us for a moment for a series of fine art, sound, architecture, fashion art and architecture education and reflections on the learning, teaching, and design innovation. Our research Flickr today, digital technology. Then as now spirit and ethos of life at the GSA that programme brings to life the very For downloadable images of the our purpose remains the same - to is connected deeply with a sense of latest in creative thinking, with MPhil School, departments, artwork etc. contribute to a better world through place. 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Architecture, Urbanism + the Registry The GSA was listed in Design Public Sphere; Design Innovation; +44 (0)141 353 4512 Week’s Hot 50 as leaders in design Studying at GSA Digital Visualisation; Education in [email protected] education; has produced four Turner The GSA offers undergraduate and Art and Design; Fine Art + Curating; www.facebook.com/gsaregistry Prize winners and an astonishing 30% graduate level programmes across Health + Wellbeing; Material Culture; of all nominees since 2005; and is architecture, design, fine art and the and Sustainability. Open Day ranked by Architects’ Journal as one digital arts. This book is not however Thursday 29 October 2015 of the top five places to study a traditional prospectus. Whilst there On the RADAR (Undergraduate) architecture in the UK. is a directory of programmes at the Visit RADAR the GSA research Saturday 28 November 2015 You will find the GSA a stimulating end of the book, to find detailed repository, to discover a digital (Graduate Study) and intellectually challenging information on the range of archive of research and enterprise environment in which to experiment programmes on offer you should output produced by GSA staff Register now at and explore new ideas. Students have visit the website at www.gsa.ac.uk. and postgraduate students. www.gsa.ac.uk/openday the opportunity to work with In the study pages online you’ll find radar.gsa.ac.uk 8 Reflections Dear GLaSGOW, As I sit down to write this, I realise how difficult it is to put into words, my relationship with you. I want to say that I enjoyed every minute I spent with you over the last year, but that would not be true. When I first met you, I dare say, you exasperated me - a new culture and lifestyle that made me feel out of place. I missed home, I hated the weather, couldn’t figure out the customs and I just wanted out. There have been times when I’ve felt like giving up, when things were not going my way. Each time, you were there to remind me of my worth as a human being. You accepted me, even before I let go of my preconceived notions about you. You introduced me to how wonderful the locals could be if one just went up to have a wee banter, taught me how much fun it was to enjoy a Chip-Butty while sipping Irn Bru in the rain, let me peek into your history when I tramped around town, showed me the wonderful Clockwork Orange on a sub-crawl and explained why Sauchiehall Street buzzed on a Saturday night while Kelvingrove Park teemed with people on a sunny day.