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Victoria University of Manchester. Yorkshire College. Alfred Waterhouse RA PPRIBA (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, although he designed using other architectural styles as well.
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Find out about Alfred Waterhouse and how he came to design the Natural History Museum building in London. See a selection of his extraordinary terracotta designs. From imposing gargoyles to delicate interior detail, every element of his design pays homage to the natural world.
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Alfred Waterhouse was born in Aigburth, Liverpool, the eldest of the large family of a cotton broker and his wife, both Quakers. A northerner by birth, he was to have his first big success in the north, with his 1859 design for the Manchester Assize Courts, and to design his "High Victorian secular masterpiece" there nearly ten years later â Manc...
The young architect had only been in practice four years before winning the competition for the Manchester courts, but the 1912 edition of the Dictionary of National Biography finds here, already, his "ability to see almost intuitively yet accurately the inherent possibilities of a site, and the proper disposition of the building to be placed on it...
Ruskin, of whom Waterhouse had been an early admirer (Cunningham and Waterhouse 189), had good things to say about the Manchester Assize Courts. Indeed, Kenneth Clark believed that this was the only Gothic Revival building Ruskin praised after 1860, when he called it "much beyond anything yet done in England on my principles" (qtd. in Clark 193). B...
Clark, Kenneth. The Gothic Revival. 1928. London: Penguin (Pelican), 1964. Print. Cunningham, Colin. "Waterhouse, Alfred (1830-1905)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Web. 3 March 2012. Cunningham, Colin, and Prudence Waterhouse. Alfred Waterhouse, 1830-1905: Biography of a Practice. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. Print. Curl, James S...
15 de abr. de 2024 · Alfred Waterhouse was an English architect who worked in the style of High Victorian medieval eclecticism. He is remembered principally for his elaborately planned complexes of educational and civic buildings. Waterhouse was an apprentice to Richard Lane in Manchester. His position as a designer of
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The college commissioned Alfred Waterhouse, architect of London's Natural History Museum, to design a museum to house the collections for the benefit of students and the public on a site in Oxford Road (then Oxford Street). The Manchester Museum was opened to the public in 1888.
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Alfred Waterhouse (Liverpool, 19 de julio de 1830 - Yattendon, Berkshire, 22 de agosto de 1905) fue un arquitecto inglés, asociado particularmente con el estilo neogótico victoriano. Se le recuerda sobre todo por haber concebido el edificio central del Museo de Historia Natural de Londres , aunque también concibió una gran variedad de otros ...
1 de jun. de 2011 · Living Worlds is an ingenious and arty revamp of one of the original museum galleries designed by the great Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse in the 1880s. The new displays are on the lower floor above which three galleried storeys rise dramatically along a central open well to the rooflights.
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