Add to ORKGIn many ways the Glasgow School of Art is very lucky. Not only has it educated a talented array of architects, designer and artists for well over 150 years but its chief campus building, and the architect who designed it – an alumnus of the school – has an international reputation that is second to none. According to the American architect Robert Venturi, the north facade of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed Glasgow School of Art ‘is one of the greatest achievements of all times ’ (Jones 1990, p. 88). Sir Terence Conran has stated that the School is ‘a robust, functional building imbued with artistry and richness: a working environment that expresses the spirit of creativity ’ (1996, p