Death of Professor Andy MacMillan
Published: 18 August 2014
Andy MacMillan, former Professor of Architecture at Glasgow University, has died suddenly aged 85.
Andy MacMillan, former Professor of Architecture at the University of Glasgow, has died suddenly aged 85.
Professor MacMillan co-designed St Peter's College seminary in Cardross - a building considered by some to be a modernist masterpiece.
He was Professor of Architecture at Glasgow University and head of the Mackintosh School of Architecture from 1973 to 1994. In 2008 he was awarded an honorary degree by the University (DLitt).
He is reported to have died in Inverness on Saturday during a judges' tour of buildings nominated for an architectural prize.
Professor MacMillan was chairing the judges' panel for this year's Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) Andrew Doolan awards.
RIAS president Iain Connelly said: "Andy was a great architect, an educator of international renown and one of the finest human beings it has been my privilege to know.
"His influence on generations of students at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and in the many other institutions where he taught, was immense.
"Andy's contribution to Scotland was among the most significant of any architect in the post World War II era."
The oration for Professor MacMillan's honorary degree (his friend and business partner Professor Isi Metzstein was similarly honored) mentioned a successful exhibition of their work at The Lighthouse in Glasgow a few years earlier. As proof of their ability to communicate and appear to a wide audience, it mentioned the comment in the visitors' book left by a 13 year-old Glaswegian:
"It's not boring, and being 13 everything bores me, so you done good."
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First published: 18 August 2014
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