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• W320308909 abstract "G L A S G O W Thomson's City: Mid-Nineteenth Century Glasgow John McKean Few architects inevitably stamp their mark on a city's image, transforming it by their interventions. I n the changing kaleidoscope of the city of Glasgow, there is no stronger individual than Alexander Thomson (1813 - 1875). I t is not that he built the most. There have been others who designed as much and more. It is not just that his works stand out as figures against the grainy urban ground of the city. I t is, on the other hand, that nobody was better able, first, to understand the actuality of the form of the city (and therefore its image) and then, through his skill, to make that form clearer and stronger. Thomson's buildings help articulate that city form, which itself, then, becomes more clearly embedded in the imago urbis. Thomson's forms are exuberant, forceful, astonishingly original. But they are always vigorously embedded in his city, memorable in that they make the city more memorable. There are as many virtuoso architects who did not do this, indeed, who shouted their individuality in contrast to their context so loudly that such was impossible. Each of these architects adds to the crystallization of the city's imaginaire collectif, but Thomson's Opposite page, t o p : The g r i d i r o n t h a t d o m i n a t e s the c e n t e r of Glasgow. Opposite page, inset: Queen's value as a lens through which to view Glasgow is in his reinforcement of the city's identity. I will exemplify this argument by discussing five of his buildings, but first the context of urban Glasgow must be outlined. The city's form, at least for a century up to 1914, was characterized most obviously by tWO things: first, in plan, the dominating gridiron lay- out of much of its center, and second, in built reality, the sense that it was a city almost entirely of walls — largely four stories high, surrounding Cross, a t y p i c a l l y s h a r p c o r n e r in t h e city of four-story t e n e m e n t s . Here T h o m s o n s i m p l y repairs and punctuates the street f o r m . Photo by J o h n McKean back-courts and enclosing streets — within which virtually the whole pop- J r r lllustrations courtesy John McKean, unless o t h e r w i s e i n d i c a t e d . ulation lived." @default.
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• W320308909 title "Glasgow, Scotland -- Thomson's City: MidpNineteenth Century Glasgow" @default.
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