Date: 14 October 05
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The internationally acclaimed filmmaker, Murray Grigor, has won The Lighthouse 2005 Achievement Award. Presented annually by The Lighthouse, Scotland's National Architecture Centre, the Achievement Award recognises outstanding contributions to the promotion of architecture and the built environment. The award was presented on the 14 October by Zaha Hadid following a keynote lecture at the 2005 BLOCK Architecture Festival.
Announcing the Award, Dr Stuart MacDonald, director of The Lighthouse said:
"Murray was the overwhelming choice of the judges. He has been a leading filmmaker for almost 40 years, admired both at home and abroad. His dedication to promoting architecture through the medium of film is unsurpassed and the impact of his work far-reaching. Murray's 1968 film on Charles Rennie Mackintosh was the single most important factor in resurrecting the reputation of the long forgotten architect-designer, and his seminal work on St Peter's, Cardross an influential voice in raising awareness of the plight of McMillan/Metzstein masterpiece. Murray continues to make challenging programmes inspiring us to question our relationship with architecture and architects, the most recent of which - on the Scottish Parliament - was premiered yesterday."
Murray Grigor will use the Achievement Award to re-visit his film on St Peter's Cardross, first shot in 1974. The new film, which will match its predecessor frame for frame, will offer a potent statement on what has happened to the building in the intervening years. It is hoped that the two films will be shown together as part of a major Gillespie Kidd Coia retrospective, which The Lighthouse is looking to mount in the 2006-7 season.
Nominations for the Achievement Award are tabled annually by a panel of judges chaired by Stuart MacDonald, which this year included Neil Gillespie of Reiach and Hall, Sebastian Tombs from A+DS and Adrian Stewart of Chris Stewart Architects, together with Morag Bain, The National Programme Development Officer for Architecture.
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