Qualla: Edinburgh College of Art https://qualla.com/edinburgh-college-of-art en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/edinburgh-college-of-art-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Edinburgh College of Art https://qualla.com/edinburgh-college-of-art Edinburgh College of Art: Introduction https://qualla.com/edinburgh-college-of-art/ Photo credit Tom Parnell from Scottish Borders, Scotland, CC BY-SA 2.0. The cattle market closed in 1909, and on its site above the Grassmarket rose a red sandstone palace of Beaux-Arts ambition. Inside the new Sculpture Court, plaster casts of the Elgin Marbles stood watch over the first students of Edinburgh College of Art - reminders that this institution, though only newly named, traced its lineage back nearly 150 years to a small drawing school created to teach Scottish weavers how to design a better cloth.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/edinburgh-college-of-art-wp/gcvw-edinburgh-college-of-art-the-lauriston-place-building.mp3 0:06 3 full Edinburgh College of Art: The Roll of Alumni https://qualla.com/edinburgh-college-of-art/ Photo credit Miles Glendinning, CC BY 4.0. The list of names that have passed through ECA reads like an index to twentieth-century Scottish creativity. Sir Basil Spence designed Coventry Cathedral here, and New Zealand's Beehive parliament. Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, the sculptor whose mosaics line London's Tottenham Court Roa...

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