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C. R. Mackintosh: the symbolic geometry of The Hill House

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Eleanor Gregh
Eleanor Gregh
Affiliation:
History of Art DepartmentUniversity of GlasgowG12 8QQUnited Kingdom
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Abstract

The first part of this essay analyses in detail key aspects of The Hill House, in order to reveal the organising aesthetic principle that governs it. It would seem that a simple yet infinitely complex system of proportional measure binds a few natural and geometric symbols into a complex whole of profound poetic significance. The second part outlines the possible implications of this discovery for the interpretation and history of the house as an individual work of art, as well as of Mackintosh's oeuvre as a whole. These will be the subject of future research.

Type
Theory
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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , Spring 1996 , pp. 40 - 63
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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