Merger Aims to Take School Into Uk Elite Architecture: Study Architecture: Study Edinburgh University and College of Art Schools to Join Forces After a Century

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SEPARATELY, they have produced some of Britain's finest architects who have designed such iconic structures as the Falkirk Wheel and Coventry Cathedral, but the architecture schools at the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art (eca) are to join forces and create the Edinburgh School of Architecture with the aim of making it one of the best in the UK.

The two schools are less than half a mile apart, yet have operated independently for almost a century. This is about to change dramatically.

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Merger Aims to Take School Into Uk Elite Architecture: Study Architecture: Study Edinburgh University and College of Art Schools to Join Forces After a Century

"The Edinburgh School of Architecture will have both identities and will, we hope, create an even stronger identity, " said Ian Howard, principal of eca. "Cynics might say both institutions aren't in the top 10 in the UK at the moment, but the joint inst...

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