The Lighthouse Glasgow
- News
Following the not-so-recent relieving departure of former Lighthouse
director Stuart Macdonald we have Nick Barley from The List magazine taking
over at the pompously titled ‘Scotland’s National Architecture
and Design Centre’. We wish Nick all the best in turning the Lighthouse
into a body that works with all those who promote architecture in Scotland,
including our two websites. We have done much to promote Scottish architecture
with countless foreign tours and much international contact, not to mention
our effective resource; yet the websites have never received a penny from
the Scottish Executive as The Lighthouse is the sole beneficiary. This
concentration of power and finance into one body based solely in one city
(Glasgow) has to stop.
Nick will take over from acting director Julia Fenby in Jan 2007. Stuart
McDonald left in May to become Head of Gray’s School of Art Aberdeen.
111106
The Lighthouse Shop / Entry redevelopment, Mitchell Lane, Glasgow
2007
Collective Architecture
Lighthouse Glasgow
The Glasgow Arts company scoops another £1m from the Scottish Executive
despite the recent creation of Architecture
+ Design Scotland - AD+S
010405
lighthouse glasgow photo © adrian welch
Housed in a building by Rennie
Mackintosh
Scottish Executive - Architecture PR
Lighthouse - Virtual Architecture Centre PR 2001:
£900,000 NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE PROGRAMME TO PROMOTE GOOD DESIGN AT HOME
AND ABROAD
Raising awareness of the benefits of good building design by encouraging
community participation in events and projects, is the main aim of a new
nationwide programme announced today by the Deputy Culture Minister Allan
Wilson.
lighthouse glasgow photo from page \ park
The Scottish Executive will provide £900,000 over the next three years
for a programme to be developed by Scotland's Centre for Architecture,
Design and the City, The Lighthouse.
lighthouse glasgow photo from page \ park
The Lighthouse Glasgow programme will include:
* a Virtual Architecture Centre to use web-based technologies to provide
information on architecture and the built environment as well as providing
links for local architectural projects and events;
* an exhibitions programme to tour venues throughout Scotland;
* specially devised local events to encourage debate and interest in design
and architecture throughout the country as well as small grants for local
projects and community events.
lighthouse glasgow photo from page \ park
The Minister welcomed the scheme and said it would help foster a healthy
debate about the status of Scotland's architecture both at home and abroad.
He said: "I am delighted that The Lighthouse, with its international profile
and reputation, will develop this programme. We share the aim of promoting
excellence in design. "This national programme aims to stimulate community
interest in architecture and the built environment. It includes direct
support for local groups wishing to develop projects, events, publications
and exhibitions.
There will also be a series of touring exhibitions and debates. A new
web-site will make information on architecture easily accessible across
Scotland, with links to local projects and to schools. "The quality of
buildings directly affects our quality of life and it is right that we
should all have the opportunity to help shape them."
lighthouse glasgow photo from steffen schefer
Dr Stuart MacDonald, Director of The Lighthouse Glasgow, said: "The Lighthouse
is absolutely delighted at this funding award. Crucially, it reinforces
The Lighthouse's national role and will facilitate a range of projects
around Scotland aimed at raising awareness of the built environment.
lighthouse glasgow photo from nord
"We are all consumers of architecture and this will allow The Lighthouse
to take the debate into communities and schools. The Virtual Architecture
Centre will bring architectural issues, events and information to an even
larger audience. "With 400,000 visitors since opening The Lighthouse has
demonstrated how to make architecture more accessible.
lighthouse glasgow photo from page \ park
The projects this award makes possible - touring exhibitions, community
schemes and promotion of the initiatives with the posts to develop them
will extend that mission. "We look forward to underpinning the Executive's
policy on architecture and playing our role in promoting architecture
within Scottish Enterprise's creative industries strategy."
lighthouse glasgow photo from page \ park
The new Virtual Architecture Centre (VAC) web-site will deliver information
nationally on architecture and the built environment. The VAC will also
act as a link to local on-line architecture centres which will reflect
local interests, information and events. A development officer will be
appointed to implement the programme.
lighthouse glasgow photo from page \ park
BACKGROUND
The 2000 Spending Review allocated programme funds of £300,000 per annum
to Scottish Policy on Architecture run by The Lighthouse Glasgow over
the three-year period 2001-2004.
lighthouse glasgow photo © adrian welch
The results of a public consultation on the Executive's proposals for
a policy on architecture were published in November last year. The Executive
will make further announcements in connection with the policy on architecture
during the year.
lighthouse glasgow photo © adrian welch
The Lighthouse was opened in 1999 as part of Glasgow's year as the UK's
City of Architecture and Design. It has the objective of celebrating,
promoting and developing architecture and the creative industries in Scotland.
The Lighthouse Glasgow - Virtual Architecture Centre PR: 17 Apr 2001
lighthouse glasgow photo from page \ park
The Lighthouse - Glasgow Herald Building
Scottish
Architecture
Glasgow Buildings
Scottish
Architects of the past
Lighthouse - Glasgow light festival 2005?
For current Glasgow Debates + Exhibitions see Glasgow
Talks
Glasgow : back to index
Lighthouse Glasgow - Sust
Comments / photos for the The Lighthouse Glasgow page welcome:
info@glasgowarchitecture.co.uk
The Lighthouse -
page: adrian welch / isabelle lomholt