The University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, was established 1796 as the Andersonian Institute. In 1887 the name of Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College (GWSTC) was adopted, changing to become the Royal Technical College and then the Royal College of Science and Technology in 1912 and 1956, respectively. A final name-change took place in 1964 when the institution received a royal charter and became the first technological university in the United Kingdom. Architecture was first taught in the late 1880s, with an architecture department being subsequently developed in 1904 which became known as the Glasgow School of Architecture - with the teaching shared  by staff of the GWSTC and the Glasgow School of Art. With the conversion into a university in 1964, the joint teaching was abandoned and the University of Strathcylde commissioned a new Architecture Building, from Frank Feilden and Associates - Fielden being the Professor of Architecture within the School at that time.