Andrew MacMillan

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

RSA FRIAS RIBA (11 December 1928, Maryhill,

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- 16 August 2014,

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) was a Scottish architect, educator, writer and broadcaster. He served as head of the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow between 1973 and 1994 and was awarded the

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gold medal (1975) and the inaugural lifetime achievement award of the

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. In 1986 he was Davenport Visiting Professor at

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. MacMillan joined his lifelong friend

Isi Metzstein Isi Israel Metzstein Order of the British Empire, OBE (7 July 1928 – 10 January 2012) was a German-born architect who worked at Gillespie, Kidd & Coia and taught at the Glasgow School of Art. He became known for his postwar architectural desig ...

at Gillespie, Kidd & Coia in 1954 and the pair went on to become the firm's lead designers, both becoming partners in the business in 1966. He was appointed an Officer of the

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in 1992.

National Life Stories National Life Stories is an independent charitable trust and limited company (registered as the ‘National Life Story Collection’) based within the British Library Oral History section, whose key focus and expertise is oral history fieldwork. S ...

conducted an oral history interview (C467/112) with Andy MacMillan in 2013 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.National Life Stories, 'MacMillan, Andy (1 of 10) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 2013
Retrieved 10 April 2018

Works

* Church of St Paul, Glenrothes, 1957 *

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and Nurses Home * schools in

Cumbernauld Cumbernauld (; gd, Comar nan Allt, meeting of the streams) is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth most-populous locality in Scotland and the most populated t ...

Simshill Simshill is an area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is on the South Side of the city, approximately south of the city centre. Adjacent areas are Cathcart, King's Park, Croftfoot and Castlemilk. Linn Park is to the south-west of Simshill. The area h ...

, Langside, Pollock and Glasgow * St Mary of the Angels, Falkirk * St Joseph's Church, Duntocher * St Bride's, East Kilbride * St Patrick's, Kilsyth * St Benedict's, Easterhouse * Our Lady of Good Counsel, Glasgow * St Peter's Seminary, Cardross, the first modern building to be awarded Category-A listed status *

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at the

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(1963–7) * Alterations and additions to Wadham College, Oxford (1971–7) *

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, Cambridge (1974–80) *

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, Argyll

Television series

* ''Six Scottish Burghs'', Pencil of Light for BBC Scotland, produced and directed by Ken Macgregor

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