GLASGOW TOURS / THE MODERNIST APP (2025)

Launch of the Modernist App tours for Glasgow

From June 2025, as part of Architecture Fringe and suppoprted by the Glasgow City Heritage Trust - a new series of architecture tours for Glasgow, launched on the modernist app.

06.06.25 from 6pm

at Glasgow City Heritage Trust, 54 Bell Street, Glasgow, G1 1LQ

Join the Modernist Society, the Glasgow City Heritage Trust and Professor Richard Brook for an engaging discussion on Urban Renewal : Building the City, or Killing the Civic? This thought-provoking event will be followed by a social gathering to celebrate the launch of the Modernist App Glasgow tours.

(part 1: Panel Discussion) Urban Renewal Glasgow - building the city, or killing the civic? In this discussion, chaired by Professor Richard Brook (Lancaster University), panellists will reflect on the major renewal initiatives of the 1960s and ask what they did for the city. Most Scottish and northern English cities experienced renewal in similar ways - inner-urban motorways, mass housing schemes, new shopping centres, vertical separation, university expansion - often partially realised and derided for the damage they wrought upon urban centres. This panel considers the motivations, successes and errors of mid-century planning and architecture and wonders what the long-term legacy will be...

(part 2: Social) the Modernist Society invite you to join us for some drinks and conversation, to mark the launch of four new architectural tours of 20th century Glasgow, which will be freely available on the Modernist App. (With the support of the Glasgow City Heritage Trust.)