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National Politics, architecture and Identity This is the transcript of a lecture that practice partner Alasdair Stephen gave to Strathclyde University architecture department in early 2007. He was given the title for the lecture and presented a personal view on architecture and how this was influenced by his politics. |
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The Blackhouse of the Highlands  The Longhouse
The blackhouses of the Highlands of Scotland were byre dwellings in the tradition of ‘long houses’ which have existed in Northern Europe for over a thousand years. Originally blackhouses had no chimneys or windows and were built with locally-found materials - stone, turf, thatch of reeds, oats, barley or marram grass.- usually on the worst arable land. |
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