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Alexander
Thomson is regarded as one of the outstanding individual voices of nineteenth-century
architecture. His designs for villas, churches, tenement blocks and warehouses
were highly innovative. Stylistically his designs were rooted in the Greek
Revival, but he looked for inspiration in architectural styles far beyond
Europe. He remained Glasgow's architectural hero until the rise of International
Modernism, of which style he was one of the great forerunners. In his use
of new kinds of expressive detail and decoration, new ways of handling materials,
and particularly in his early recognition that architecture could not develop
simply by reinterpreting traditional themes, Thomson is a major architectural
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