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  Rachel Crooks, who is a 2023 DipArch graduate from the MSA’s Stage 5 course, has been awarded the RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal for Best 5th Year Student. The Royal Incorporated Architects of Scotland Awards, in tandem with Architecture & Design Scotland, bring together the five schools of architecture in Scotland to celebrate the continuing high standards of Scottish architecture.

  Portrait of Emma Burke Newman The friends, colleagues and family of Emma Burke Newman have launched the Residency for Ideas, an opportunity for Mackintosh School of Architecture students from The Glasgow School of Art, at key points in their study (Stage 3 or Stage 5), to explore their practice responding to the prompt:  ‘What is your practice? Who are you as an

3rd year Architecture student, Aurora Takami-Siljedahl, will use the award to research the work of Mackintosh in Glasgow and his contemporary, Josef Hoffmann, in Vienna Award has been established by the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society with support from the DSB Award   Images: Stained glass window at Mackintosh Queen’s Cross designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (courtesy of Stuart Robertson) and the Dining

  Glasgow School of Art students address vital question in latest activation of seminal artwork, Nexus Architecture Work has been activated all over the world including Shanghai, New York, Berlin and Johannesburg,   Drawing from the emblematic social sculpture Nexus Architecture, initiated in 1993, Studio Orta have made 50 blank-canvas overalls for art and design students to customise in a series

  Stage 5 students present city studies on Glasgow, the ethical city Stage 3 students offer speculative designs for a music centre and retreat on the shores of Loch Lomond. Students can add work to their profiles on the Showcase for the next 12-months   Students in the Mackintosh School of Architecture have unveiled a range of thought-provoking responses to

  Design for a Sistema Scotland music centre at Balloch, inspired by her own lived experience, impresses judges  Abby now joins 11 other students in the UK National finals See work by Abby and other Stage 3 Architecture students in GSA Graduate Showcase from 9 June 2021   A Stage 3 Architecture student at the GSA, Abby Hopes, has won

Mackintosh School of Architecture students and recent graduates have dominated the 2020 A&DS-RIAS awards, which were announced last night, scooping the A&DS Urban Design Award, the Sustainable Design Award, the AD&S Award for Best 3rd Year student and the RIAS-Andy MacMillan Drawing Award.   Estate of Change – Dana Cherepkova’s Stage 5 City Study   Recent Stage 5 graduate, Dana Cherepkova, won the A&DS

Diploma in Architecture students focus on Antwerp in their Stage 5 Design theses https://gsashowcase.net/glasgow/school-of-architecture/msa-stage-5/ The Diploma School at the Mackintosh School of Architecture (Stage 5)  has, for many years, been intimately concerned with the reciprocal relationships between architecture and the city. This year the selected setting for the Stage 5 Design Theses is the Antwerp with the theme of Myths, Modernity

GSA Stage 3 architecture students unveil speculative designs for a residential music retreat and performance hall on a site beside Loch Lomond for Sistema in Graduate Showcase 2020 https://gsashowcase.net/glasgow/school-of-architecture/msa-stage-3/ Designs had to be sensitive to the site – a place of natural beauty in the National Park – and the global challenge of climate change and the needs of the

Mark Baines, photo courtesy of Zhoujie Chen It is with great sadness that we hear of the passing away of our colleague Mark Baines. As an esteemed and respected teacher, practitioner and critic, Mark Baines played a distinctive and vital role at the heart of architectural culture in Glasgow and Scotland in general. Any comprehensive list of his important achievements and