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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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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...
19 de jul. de 1998 · Alfred Waterhouse (born July 19, 1830, Liverpool, Eng.—died Sept. 22, 1905, Yattendon, Berkshire) 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.
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Who was Alfred Waterhouse? Born in Liverpool and trained in Manchester, Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) was an English architect best known for his eclectic Victorian Gothic Revival Style. Waterhouse worked extensively on civic and educational buildings in Manchester and London.
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 ...
- 22 de agosto de 1905 (75 años), Yattendon (Reino Unido)
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Alfred Waterhouse 1830-1905. Biography of a Practice by Colin Cunningham and Prudence Waterhouse [see Bibliography] contains a complete list of Alfred Waterhouse’s contracts. See also: British Listed Buildings site - contains over 300 records of buildings designed by Alfred Waterhouse.
Alfred Waterhouse is best known as a designer of public buildings in the eo-Gothic style, but he drew on other styles from the past too, and numerous building types are represented in his huge output. He was the first child of a Quaker family, and was educated at a Quaker School.
