From the editor

摘要

Should PagePark Architects, picked last month to restore the fire-damaged Glasgow School of Art, be architecturally faithful to the building's designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh? It's a moot point and one debated - just a wee bit and frankly not adequately or seriously enough -at last week's Building on Mackintosh symposium. As the superb overview of Mackintosh's work on view at the RIBA Architecture Gallery shows, the famously difficult Glaswegian architect was part of a flourishing network-of clients, contractors and craftsmen and craftswomen. Their collective talents were able to grow and find expression in Scotland's biggest city-then also one of Europe's biggest cities-for a simple reason: Glasgow was rich from two centuries of global commerce and adventure, and had developed a strong urban culture defined by industrial, political and artistic excellence.