Historical, Talk
ScotlandsFest: In Search of Scottish Architecture
Join Roger Emmerson, author of Land of Stone and Scotland in 100 Buildings, as he invites you into his 40-year search for the Scottishness of Scottish architecture. It begins before Scotland was Scotland. Before architecture was architecture. Between the mountain and the sky. Between the land and the river. An antinomy, an antisyzygy, a parallax. Tracing a path from Celtic culture, through Scots colloquialisms, to the ideas of Kant, Thomson, Gregory Smith and Žižek: Emmerson has uncovered some answers. But the search continues...
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£10.00 -
20 August 2026 -
60 minutes -
10:30 -
St Columba's by the Castle -
Hall -
Age 14+ (Guideline) -
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