Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations viii
Foreword Alan Pert, Director, NORD Architecture 1
Introduction 5
1 A Beacon for Scotland 9
2 The Lighthouse: Architecture and Design Centre or Multiplex? 12
3 An Art Lesson Glasgow has to Learn 18
4 Why Do We Need Art Schools? 20
5 Progressive Pragmatism 27
6 Subverting Design 32
7 Design Through Industry 37
8 Burning Questions 43
9 A Score Created For Frozen Music 48
10 The Limits of the City: Urban Models and the Worldwide Expansion of Urbanism 52
11 Re: Motion and the Scots' Invention of Mobility 56
12 Patronising Places 60
13 The Lighthouse and Scotland's Policy on Architecture 70
14 Design Defines the Century 77
15 The Great Heritage Con 81
16 No Place for Public Hanging 83
17 Designs on a Budget 88
18 Welcome to their Space 91
19 Glasgow Design City 94
20 Better by Design: An Architect Who Truly Deserves His Iconic Status (Charles Rennie Mackintosh) 104
21 6000 Miles 107
22 When is a Designer not a Designer? 110
23 Defining Place 113
24 Global Warning 119
25 Designs on Making Scotland Competitive 123
26 The Creative Class in Scotland 127
27 Gray's Anatomy: Why Ceramics Education in Scotland Hasn't Quite Died 129
28 Sun, Sex and TEA 133
29 Aberdeen's City Square Project Represents a Loss of Democracy 136
30 The Future is Digital? 138
31 Joined-Up Creativity: Creative Industries and Scotland's Urban and Rural Creative Economy 147
32 Aberdeen Doesn't Need a 'McGuggenheim' and Shouldn't Have to Vote on it Either 160
Acknowledgements 162
