Publication Account

Date 1997

Event ID 1019365

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019365

The Tradtionalist classicism if this building was, by the end of the 30s, the internationally accepted idiom for design of public buildings anywhere in Europe. Yet individual instances of this monumentalism - just like the international 'vernacular' of c.1900 - were typically justified by rhetoric of a national 'essence'. Here, the test which accompanies Carr's successful competition entry claimed the design was a response to the 'inborn characteristics' of Scots towns. Its construction delayed by the war, the Town House was eventually built in little-altered form. (Fig 4.9).

Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Post-War Vision, 1945-75', (1997).