Art Nouveau was an international design movement in art, architecture and applied/decorative arts, that began in Europe around 1890. It was, in part, a reaction against styles popular earlier that century, such as gothic revival or neoclassical, which heavily referenced historical styles. The 'new art' sought to create an entirely new design vocabulary, often inspired by nature and characterised by sinuous, flowing, dynamic, asymmetrical lines ('whiplash' curves) and a desire to unify the design of a building's architecture with its furniture and interior décor. Charles Rennie Mackintosh, along with his wife Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, was a proponent of the “Glasgow Style', and has left the city a significant legacy of buildings. This class will consider the emergence of the Art Nouveau movement and CRM's important role in Glasgow; it will also examine a number of his buildings, and their current uses; and it will ask the question: how should the city value such a legacy? Lecture style with question & answer time.