To celebrate the bicentenary of Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson‘s birth a programme of events and activities have been planned to take place throughout 2017. We will continue to update this calendar throughout the year with more and more exciting events as these are confirmed so please keep checking back. You can also sign up to our e-mail newsletter here to stay up to date.
Apr
13
Thu
“SPECULATIONS ON INFINITY”:
Short one-man play narrated by the man himself. This will be accompanied by a 1960s film on Thomson’s architecture from the NLS Film Archive. Thursday 13th April : 7.30pm in the John McLintock Hall, Dunmore St., Balfron. FREE but ticketed in advance (due to numbers). Tickets from Balfron Library
Apr
14
Fri
The Easter bunny has hidden clues at lots of National Trust for Scotland places!
Collect your hunt map, follow the clues, solve the puzzle and claim your chocolatey reward! Each hunt is completely different – the perfect excuse to hop along to more than one!
£2 per hunt (Usual entry prices apply if you’d like to visit the house)
Apr
15
Sat
The Easter bunny has hidden clues at lots of National Trust for Scotland places!
Collect your hunt map, follow the clues, solve the puzzle and claim your chocolatey reward! Each hunt is completely different – the perfect excuse to hop along to more than one!
£2 per hunt (Usual entry prices apply if you’d like to visit the house)
Apr
16
Sun
The Easter bunny has hidden clues at lots of National Trust for Scotland places!
Collect your hunt map, follow the clues, solve the puzzle and claim your chocolatey reward! Each hunt is completely different – the perfect excuse to hop along to more than one!
£2 per hunt (Usual entry prices apply if you’d like to visit the house)
Apr
17
Mon
The Easter bunny has hidden clues at lots of National Trust for Scotland places!
Collect your hunt map, follow the clues, solve the puzzle and claim your chocolatey reward! Each hunt is completely different – the perfect excuse to hop along to more than one!
£2 per hunt (Usual entry prices apply if you’d like to visit the house)
Aug
22
Tue
Aug 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Mark Baines is the chairman of the Alexander Thomson Society, an organisation that protects Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s legacy and his architectural heritage. This talk will look at the former Caledonia Road Church along with other buildings designed by Thomson on the South Side of the city, including Walmer Crescent, Moray Place and a number of lost buildings in Laurieston and Huthchesontown.
Delivered as part of House for an Art Lover’s 2017 Heritage Programme.
Sep
14
Thu
Discover a Thomson villa and 2 villas by other architects, some of Alexander Thomson’s beautiful external detailing of 5 of his residential buildings in Glasgow and where the 7 Glasgow muses are to be found.
Sep
27
Wed
Sep 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Paul Stallan will provide a review of the architectural syntax of Thomson’s work, delving into the laws which governed his architecture, whilst discussing where this has influenced his own architectural designs.
Oct
25
Wed
Oct 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Alexander Thomson Society are pleased to present a rare books event in association with The Mitchell Library.
Glasgow architect and director of the Society, Scott Abercrombie, will deliver a talk giving a historical context to the importance of these books in relation to Thomson’s work and other contemporary Glaswegian architects. He will discuss built examples where the influence of these texts can be found in the architecture of Glasgow or where the ideas that they present have influenced the Thomson’s design philosophy.
Following this introduction a number of rare editions of these books will be made available for your perusal by The Mitchell Library. Due to the sensitivity of some of these texts the we have had to limit the number of tickets for this event, so book early to avoid disappointment.
Jun
27
Wed
Jun 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Art historian and actor Paul O’Keeffe joins the Society to perform John Ruskin’s ‘Architecture’ lecture, from the Ruskin’s 1853 series of lectures originally delivered to the Philosophical Institution in Edinburgh.
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