AN EXHIBITION is opening today looking at the architecture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

It is the first major exhibition to be devoted to Mackintosh's architectural work and features more than 80 drawings from collections across the UK.

The architect's most famous work - Glasgow School of Art - was badly damaged earlier this year in a fire.

Professor Pamela Robertson, Professor of Mackintosh Studies at the University of Glasgow, said: "Today Charles Rennie Mackintosh enjoys a world-wide reputation. He occupied a pivotal point between the Victorian age and the Modern Movement, yet despite this his architecture is remarkably under-researched.

"The project has allowed us to understand more about the context within which Mackintosh worked."

l The Mackintosh Architecture exhibition is at the Hunterian Art Gallery until January 4.