Mackintosh School of Architecture
| Type | Architecture school |
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| Head | Christopher Platt |
| Students | circa 450 |
| Location | Glasgow, Scotland |
| Campus | Garnethill, Glasgow |
| Director | Tom Inns |
| Affiliations | Glasgow School of Art, University of Glasgow |
| Website | www |
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The Mackintosh School of Architecture (MSA) is one of the three schools which make up the Glasgow School of Art, situated in the Garnethill area of Glasgow, Scotland. The Mackintosh School of Architecture is the Glasgow School of Art's only academic school concerned with a single discipline.
The school is based in the Bourdon Building, named after the French architect Eugene Bourdon, the first Professor of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art.
Architecture has been a part of the teaching at the GSA from the middle of the 19th century. Taught on a part-time basis until 1968, the School boasts Charles Rennie Mackintosh and two of Glasgow's most notable modern architects, Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein of the architectural practice Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, amongst its most eminent alumni.
Since 1968, the programmes have been predominantly for full-time students, but it continues to be Scotland's only school of architecture to offer part-time mode of study.
The Mac provides the teaching required for registration as an architect in the United Kingdom, and is recognised by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), in programmes that may be taken in full-time or part-time modes.
Many schools of architecture claim to balance art with science. It does this by juxtaposing our involvement in the community of artists, designers and architects that comprises the GSA, with their own dedicated science-led 'green' research unit within the school - MEARU (Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit). This research unit is also increasingly taking on consultancy to practitioners at feasibility or early design stage, which is then fed into the teaching from first year to postgraduate level.
The School collaborates in teaching with the world recognised Department of Urban Studies at Glasgow University, and runs a studio based courses for students of engineering for the universities of Glasgow and Paisley.
The Mac's teaching staff come from a wide variety of backgrounds and specialist subject areas and are all active in research, teaching development. The School also offers consultancy services and where possible this has involved students and staff in a number of commissions, the results of which are often fed back into the teaching and learning environment.
The School was recently awarded the highest rating classification by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for the quality of its teaching, and in the last research assessment exercise The Glasgow School of Art's research activity was noted as being of national importance.
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