Tour Scotland photograph of Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland. The building was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the first half of the building was completed in 1899 and the second in 1909. Charles Rennie Mackintosh was Scotland's greatest architect and arguably one of the world's most admired. He had far fewer commissions than his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright but with a few bold and innovative structures, the Glasgow School of Art and Hill House among them, he had a profound influence on art and architecture at the turn of the twentieth century. Like Wright, Mackintosh designed in totality, down to the furniture and fabrics used in his structures, and he was influenced by the Japanese, particularly in the simplicity of his designs and themes from nature.
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