University of Liverpool School of Architecture
Architecture school in England
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The Liverpool School of Architecture is the architecture school of the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, England. It was the first architecture school in the United Kingdom to be affiliated with a university, and the first to have degree programmes validated by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), in 1895.[1]
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| Type | Architecture school |
|---|---|
| Location | , UK |
| Website | www |
Six RIBA Gold Medallists have been staff or graduates of Liverpool.[2] The School was initially an important centre for the Arts and Crafts movement, but later promoted Classical and Modernist ideas under the influence of Charles Herbert Reilly.[3]
Notable alumni and academic staff
- Robert Anning Bell
- Patrick Abercrombie
- Lionel Bailey Budden
- Dariush Borbor, Iranian architect, urban planner, civic designer, writer
- Maxwell Fry
- George Noel Hill
- William Holford, Baron Holford
- Leonard Cecil Howitt
- Quentin Hughes
- Augustus John[4]
- Stirrat Johnson-Marshall
- Thomas Alwyn Lloyd
- Charles Herbert Reilly
- Colin Rowe
- Herbert James Rowse
- Giles Gilbert Scott
- James Stirling
- F. X. Velarde
- Ernst Wiesner