This lasted until 1903 when the Trustee Academy became the Architecture wing of the School of Applied Art.
[1] Allan Ramsay founded the first 'Art School' in Scotland by opening the Academy of St. Luke in Edinburgh in 1729.
[3][2] A similar design school was founded in 1760 by the Board of Trustees for the Encouragement of Manufacturing in Scotland for Edinburgh.
[1] As a manufacturing board set up the design school the original intention was to found a trade school for pupils to learn the likes of house painting, carving, cabinet making, engraving and printing.
It promoted art as a means to design patterns for the wool and cotton industries.
The French artist William Delacour was the first Master of the Academy; and later the classical training of the Italians was adopted.
It held onto that building until the Trustees' Academy became defunct in 1903; when it became an architecture wing of the School of Applied Art.
The RSA had long sought the rooms and the teaching space of the Trustees' Academy.