Department of Natural Philosophy, Glasgow Faculty of Arts architect, Strathclyde Basil Spence building
University of Glasgow Building : Natural Philosophy Department
Glasgow University Faculty of Arts, Scotland, UK, from the 1950s – Physics and Astronomy facility
post updated 14 February 2025
The Department of Natural Philosophy Extension, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Date built: 1952
Design: Basil Spence (Basil Spence & Partners)
Faculty of Arts building
The Department of Natural Philosophy is now part of, and known as, the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Department of Natural Philosophy, Glasgow
The department is based in the building currently known as the Kelvin Building.
photo : Argymeg, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Basil Spence architect
Location: Hunterian Museum, Gilbert Scott Building, University Avenue, University of Glasgow, West End, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
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The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451 and has existed at this site since 1870 when it moved from the city centre. This higher education institute is the second oldest university in Scotland and the fourth oldest in Britain.
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Sir Basil Spence Architect
Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM OBE RA (13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style.
He went to George Watson’s College in Edinburgh from 1919 to 1925. He then enrolled at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) in 1925, studying architecture.
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