The Mackintosh Interpretation Centre is a gallery dedicated to the life and work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife, the designer, Margaret MacDonald. Sited within Mackintosh’s first building, now “The Lighthouse”, the Centre seeks to place Mackintosh and MacDonald’s work within the context of the richly creative city in which they were working, along with contemporary developments in European art and architecture.
The Centre consists of three distinct areas: an information area giving the location of Mackintosh buildings and collections; the tower with its new helical staircase rising up to the view over the city; and the interpretive gallery, which examines Mackintosh and MacDonald’s life and work together. The white gallery space is divided by a curving etched glass wall, directing visitors towards the stone enclosure of the tower. Within the gallery, the curved wall forms a timeline, its structural bands framing a giant graphic, setting Mackintosh’s painting, architecture and design in context within developments of the period.
| Location: | The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland |
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| Client: | The Lighthouse |
| Status: | Completed 1999 |