Talk:Scottish baronial architecture

perhaps this needs to be moved to Scottish baronial architecture, or perhaphs just a subsection of Gothic revival - any views? Giano | talk 11:23, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think its fine here, but perhaps should be captialised as Scottish Baronial style.

Someone else probably knows the details, but I seem to recall Charles Rennie Mackintosh writing a noted article in which he advocated that architects should build on and reinterpret their traditional local idioms and that he himself liked to base his style on the Scottish baronial style (see for example [1]). In particular, the Hill House, with its curved staircase 'turret', exhibits elements of the Scottish Baronial style reinterpreted with a modern eye (picture). On the other hand I think his comments fell on deaf ears at the time. -- Solipsist 12:15, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know, this is not realy my field, I was just adding my limited knowledge to the stub. I would have thought that Mackintosh was eviolving this style into another style, but I'm out of my depth here so I defer to others opinions. Giano | talk 12:24, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No that's true. Mackintosh wasn't saying that he designed in the Scottish Baronial style, just that he used it as a starting point for a 'modern' (that is 1910 modern) reinterpretation. I think his lecture/article was talking about how architects shouldn't just ignore a locations traditional styles when designing a new building; possibly suggesting that the existing local style often contained features that were particularly relevant to the local climate and so should be retained in a modern building. -- Solipsist 12:40, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I just clicked on your picture, that's great, (I like that) but I would have said that was based on a traditional Scottish tower house, and the Scottish baronial style had been byepassed altogether. My opinion only though probably! Giano | talk 12:28, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]