When he finally saw the building in 2002, the weight of expectation in confronting Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s 100-year-old masterpiece almost overwhelmed him.
“I went weak at the knees,” he said.
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Mackintosh’s best friend ...or worst foe?
Almost 40 years ago American architecture student Steven Holl sat rapt as his professor at the University of Washington dedicated an entire lecture to Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building.
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