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Andrew MacMillan

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12/11/1928

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16/08/2014

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Andrew MacMillan was born on 11 December 1928 in Maryhill, Glasgow, the son of a railway porter. He was educated at Maryhill Public School and North Kelvinside Secondary School. After leaving school he sat the Glasgow Corporation exam. During his time there he received the impetus to study architecture and he and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1945. There he met Isi Metzstein, and the pair quickly became firm friends. Every Wednesday, what was often referred to as the ‘Isi and Andy’ double act could be found at the King’s Arms on Elmbank Street, discussing architecture, culture and politics.

After seven years with the Corporation he moved to East Kilbride New Town Development Corporation after the Second World War in 1952, He joined the firm of Gillespie Kidd & Coia in 1954, and soon began a close collaboration with Metzstein, who had been in the firm since beginning as an apprentice. The two were to carry out most of the practice’s design work from around 1957 onwards, as Coia approached retirement. Working in a bold and highly original Modernist idiom, they collaborated on a series of notable Roman Catholic churches between that year and 1980, of which St Bride’s in East Kilbride (1963–4) is among the most remarkable. Their masterwork is considered to be St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross, completed in 1966, which was to be the first modern building to be awarded Category-A listed status. They were also responsible for a series of important university buildings, including halls of residence at Hull (1963–7), additions to Wadham College, Oxford (1971–7), and Robinson College, Cambridge (1974–80). Although strongly inspired by Le Corbusier, they drew on sources as diverse as Victorian Glasgow, medieval urbanism and abstraction, and Metzstein always emphasised the importance of designing from first principles.

MacMillan was elected ARIBA in 1963 and ARIAS the following year. He was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in ****.

In 1973 he was appointed Professor of Architecture at the University of Glasgow and Head of the Mackintosh School of Architecture. Under his guidance the School achieved an international reputation. In 1986 he was Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University. He also served as Vice President for Education at the RoyalInstitute of British Architects during the period 1980-85. Subsequently was avisiting professor or lecturer in a number of South American instutitions in Mexico, Columbia and chile and as far afeidl as Singapore and Japan. He was instrumental in establishing the new architecture school in Dublin.

In later years MacMillan continued his involvement with the RIBA, the RIAS and the Royal Scottish Academy where he was made an Academician in 1990. He was awarded the OBE in 1992. MacMillan and Metzstein received lifetime achievement awards from the RIBA in 2008 and MacMillan received the RIBA's Annie Spink Award for services to architectural education shortly afterwards. From 2002 he chaired the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building Award each year. He collapsed and died during a Doolan Award visit on 16 August 2014.

He is survived by his wife Angela McDowell whom he had married in 1955 and his four children and three grandchildren.

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The following private or business addresses are associated with this person:

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Address	Class	Date From Char	Date From Type	Date To Char	Date To Type	Notes
1722 Maryhill Road Glasgow Scotland	Private
42 Cadder Road Glasgow Scotland	Private
76 Kelvin Drive Glasgow Scotland	Private
1 Falcon Terrace Glasgow Scotland	Private

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Address	Class	Date From	Date To
19 Waterloo Street Glasgow Scotland	Business	1954	1956
20 Park Circus Glasgow Scotland	Business	1956
227 Ingram Street Glasgow Scotland	Business	1979

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position
Glasgow Corporation Housing Department (later Architectural & Planning Department, Glasgow Corporation)	201303	1940s		Assistant
East Kilbride Development Corporation	400714	In year 1952		Architect
Gillespie Kidd & Coia	200543	In year 1954	In year 1965	Assistant
Gillespie Kidd & Coia	200543	In year 1966		Partner

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position	Notes
Mark Baines	401729			Assistant	p129, Glendinning, 1997

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This person was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details):

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Building Name	Date Started	Town, District or Village	City or County	Country	Notes
St Joachim's RC Church and Presbytery	In year 1954	Carmyle	Glasgow	Scotland
St Mary's RC Church	In year 1954		Glasgow	Scotland
St Maria Goretti RC Church	In year 1955	Cranhill	Glasgow	Scotland	Design only
Oratory, 19 Park Circus	In year 1955		Glasgow	Scotland	Conversion of operating theatre into oratory
Turnbull Hall Chapel	In year 1955		Glasgow	Scotland
St Peter's RC Church and Presbytery	In year 1956	Partick	Glasgow	Scotland	Interior remodelled (and furnishings)
St Paul's RC Church	In year 1956	Glenrothes	Fife	Scotland
Simshill School	In year 1956		Glasgow	Scotland
Catholic Retreat House	In year 1956	Craighead, Bothwell	Lanarkshire	Scotland	Chapel formed from conservatory
St Kessog's RC Church	In year 1957	Ballach	Dunbartonshire	Scotland
University of Glasgow, Garscube Site, Veterinary Hospital & School	In year 1957	Garscube, Bearsden	Glasgow	Scotland	Hospital
St Paul's RC Church	In year 1957		Glasgow	Scotland
Kildrum 1 Housing	In year 1957	Kildrum, Cumbernauld New Town	Lanarkshire	Scotland
Willox Park Home sheltered housing	In year 1959	Dumbarton	Dunbartonshire	Scotland
St Martin's RC Church, Ardencraig Road	In year 1959	Castlemilk	Glasgow	Scotland

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Notes
Miles Glendinning, Diane Watters, David Whitham	Docomomo Scotland Leaflet			p226, p229, St Peter's Seminary and Cumbernauld Residential zone images
Watters, Diane	Cardross Seminary: Gillespie Kidd and Coia and the architecture of postwar Catholicism	1997	RCAHMS
Glendinning, Miles	Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75	1997	Tuckwell Press Ltd	pp32, 86, 116, 119, 132-40, 149-50, 153, 170 Cardross Seminaryp36 BOAC Officep38-9p41 Robinson Collegep60 Kildrum Ip129 Photgraph of Professor Andrew MacMillan, Isi Metztein and Ian Gow 1990p129-140p156 St Paul's, Glenrothesp170-1 Cumbernauld Original Housing Areasp172 Kildrum Primary Schoolp173 St Bride's
Willis, Peter	New architecture in Scotland	1977		p7p11 BOAC Offices, Glasgowp34-5 Our Lady of Good Council, Glasgowp36-7 St Margaret's Church, Glasgowp56-9 St Peter's Seminary
RIBA	RIBA Kalendar 1953-54	1954
RIBA	RIBA Directory 1970	1970

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Periodical Name	Publisher	Date Circ	Edition	Notes
RIAS Quarterly		2014	Autumn
Scotsman		2014/08/19		p39

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Archive Name	Source	Source Cat No	Building Id	Item Name	Notes
Records of membership	RIAS, Rutland Square	201006

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