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Competition designs for University of Glasgow Natural Philosophy and Medical Buildings

M213 Competition designs for University of Glasgow Natural Philosophy and Medical Buildings

Address: Glasgow
Date: 1902
Client: University of Glasgow
Authorship: Authorship category 2 (Mackintosh and Office) (Mackintosh and Office)
1902
16 April: University of Glasgow joint committee on laboratory requirements recommends to the University Court that several architects be asked to submit designs for new buildings for the departments of Natural Philosophy and of Physiology, Materia Medica, and Forensic Medicine and Public Health. 1
19 November: Mackintosh writes to Hermann Muthesius about his work on designs for large buildings for the University competitions. 2
10 December: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh submit their design and acompanying documents. 3
1903
12 February: James Miller's designs selected by the University Court. 4
1906
The Natural Philosophy building designed by James Miller opens. 5
1907
The Physiology, Materia Medica, and Forensic Medicine and Public Health building designed by James Miller opens. 6

Notes:

1: Glasgow University Archive Service: University of Glasgow Court minutes, C1/1/9, 16 April 1902.

2: Berlin, Werkbundarchiv, Museum der Dinge: Hermann Muthesius Estate, letter from Mackintosh to Hermann Muthesius, 19 November 1902.

3: Glasgow University Archive Service: GUA 73394, New Buildings 1902–28, 'Glasgow University Extension. Proposed New Buildings for (1) the Department of Natural Philosophy; (2) the Departments of Physiology, Materia Medica, and Forensic Medicine and Public Health. Memorandum by Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh, Architects'.

4: Glasgow University Archive Service: University of Glasgow Court minutes, C1/1/10, 12 February 1903.

5: Elizabeth Williamson, Anne Riches and Malcolm Higgs, Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow, London: Penguin, 1990, p. 342.

6: Elizabeth Williamson, Anne Riches and Malcolm Higgs, Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow, London: Penguin, 1990, p. 342.