Liz Davidson - Reconstructing the Mackintosh: and the race between Education and Catastrophe
Channel: Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
Date: 2019-04-04

Glasgow School of Art, Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Art, Macintosh Building, fire, reconstruction



Since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art as a post graduate in Architectural Conservation, Liz has been  involved  in  most  aspects  of  Scotland’s  built  heritage.  Most  recently  she  was  head  of  Heritage  and  Design at Glasgow City Council with an active statutory role in maintaining the highest standards of historic building  repair  and  maintenance  in  conjunction  with  encouraging  the  best  and  most  inspirational  designs  in  contemporary  incursions  and  new  development.  Previous  to  this  she  led  the  Heritage  Lottery  funded  Townscape Heritage programme to regenerate the Merchant City through an extensive arts led programme of building repair, repaving and lighting of main streets, proactive cultural and creative business strategy, public art commissions, street markets, and the now annual Merchant City festival. 



Liz currently heads a team concerned with the response to the devastating fire in June 2018 at the Mackintosh Building at Glasgow School of Art; this is post that she took on after the first fire in 2014 and was very near close to completing when the second tragedy struck.