Scotland on Sunday

When the Vitra Design Museum exhibition on the Bauhaus designer Marcel Breuer opened at The Lighthouse last week, one retired Glasgow architect found himself doing a double take. It wasn't just a natural interest in the only UK showing of this thrilling exhibition on the Hungarian father of modernism who left his brutalist mark on both furniture design and architecture. It was that Geoffrey Jarvis, former architect to the National Trust, had a personal interest - and he had the snapshots to prove it. Fifty-odd years ago, as a young Glasgow School of Architecture graduate, Jarvis travelled to the United States and ended up working with Breuer for six months.