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science. The 'Temple of Nature' that Alfred Waterhouse built for him embodied Owen's belief that the history of the natural world was not a matter of randomness and chance but the creation of a transcendent presence. In other words, the Natural History Museum is the expression of an ideology, and its shape, size, position, style and
Alfred Waterhouse was born into a strictly Quaker family in Aigburth, Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 19 July 1830 and was articled to the architectural partnership of P. B. Alley and Richard Lane (1795-1880) in Manchester in 1848 Having completed his apprenticeship in 1853 he spent ten-months touring France and Germany.
Easneye House. Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) was a prolific English architect who worked in the second half of the 19th century. His buildings were largely in Victorian Gothic Revival style. Waterhouse's biographer, Colin Cunningham, states that between about 1865 and about 1885 he was "the most widely employed British architect". [1]
Vida y Biografía de Alfred Waterhouse. (Liverpool, 1830-Yattendon, 1905) Arquitecto británico. Es creador de varios inmuebles, como el palacio de Justicia de Manchester y el Museo de Historia Natural de Londres, en la línea del eclecticismo victoriano tardío.
Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was a British architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture. He is perhaps best known for his design for Manchester Town Hall and the Natural History Museum in London, although he also built a wide variety of other buildings throughout the country.
Alfred Waterhouse (19. července 1830 Liverpool – 22. srpna 1905 Yattendon) byl anglický architekt. Těžištěm jeho tvorby byly návrhy staveb ve stylu viktoriánské novogotiky , neuzavíral se však ani před styly zcela odlišnými.
Alfred Waterhouse was one of the most successful British architects of the second half of the nineteenth century. Following the passion for gothic espoused by Pugin and Ruskin, he developed his own highly individual "modern" gothic, but could turn his hand to other styles with equal confidence.
