Scottisharchitecture.com is an online architecture centre, that is part of Architecture and Design Scotland's ACCESS to Architecture Programme. The website is designed to engage, inform and illuminate on all aspects of Scottish architecture and the built environment, across as wide an audience range as possible - from students and young people taking part in related workshops to professionals looking for lively and up-to-date news and debate.
Scottisharchitecture.com offers an important portal to information relating to projects delivered by the ACCESS to Architecture programme. The website also provides:
- comprehensive and constantly updated news;
- diary details of forthcoming events around Scotland;
- regularly updated features on new buildings and places;
- an education resource aimed at learners across all ages;
- articles, interviews and blogs reflecting the latest thoughts and developments happening across Scotland and beyond.
Scottisharchitecture.com considers the virtual visitor every bit as important as our real exhibition visitors and event participants.
If you wish to contact scottisharchitecture.com please email ScotArch@ads.org.uk
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Knap of Howar, on the windswept Orkney island of Papa Westray, is the dramatic setting for what is the oldest standing house in Europe.
Significantly, it is from this simple prehistoric stone structure that the evolution of the Scottish house begins. Over the past 5500 years a spectacular range and diversity of housing types has characterised this development, yet a certain continuity has also resulted, with many enduring forms and styles.
It is over the past five centuries, however, that the modern Scottish 'home', as we know it, has gradually emerged. This notion of the 'home' as a private, self-contained entity, used mainly for domestic life has manifested itself in a variety of architectural forms and settings. The thatched croft, turreted castle, high rise flat, tenement block and suburban villa are all familiar images of the Scottish house.
So, how do our homes measure up today, and what does the future look like holding?
'Anatomy of the House' focuses on an aspect of architecture that although relevant and accessible to everyone is often overlooked. As stated in the Scottish Executive's consultation report for the Architecture Policy, housing is considered a benchmark of "society's values and fundamental to its well-being".
This online exhibition looks at five housing types: Croft, Castle, Settlement, Urban and Suburban, from both a historic and contemporary perspective.