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Bruce Allsopp

Harold Bruce Allsopp FSA FRIBA (4 July 1912 – 22 February 2000) was a British architectural historian, educator and publisher.[1]

Harold Bruce Allsopp
Born(1912-07-04)4 July 1912
Oxford, England
Died22 February 2000(2000-02-22) (aged 87)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Lecturer, historian
Known forArchitectural historian
Co-founder of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain

Career

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Howard Bruce Allsopp was born in 1912 in Oxford to Heny Allsopp, a historian, poet and vice principal of Ruskin College, and his wife Elizabeth May Allsopp (née Robertson).[1][2][3][4] Bruce Allsopp attended Crimsworth School and Manchester Grammar School[5] before studying architecture at the University of Liverpool School of Architecture under Sir Charles Reilly, Sir Patrick Abercrombie and Lionel Bailey Budden.[5] He served in the Royal Engineers during World War II and taught at Leeds School of Art from 1935 to 1946.[6] During 1935 he married Florence Cyrilla Woodroffe.[1] From 1946 he taught at Newcastle University School of Architecture (originally part of Durham University),[7] where he held a variety of posts, including senior lecturer and director of architectural studies.[8][6] In 1957 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.[9]

Allsopp was a co-founder of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain in 1955 and served as its first chair. In 1962 he founded the Oriel Press.[10] In 1970 he was elected as the Master of the Art Workers' Guild.[11][12]

Allsopp said in Architect and Patron:[13]

The architect is tied to humanity in a way which the painter, poet or musician is not. This is, in a way, a limitation, but it is also the chief glory of his art.

Selected published works

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  • Art and the Nature of Architecture 1952[14][15]
  • Decoration Furniture Vol. 1. The English Tradition 1952[16][17]
  • A History of Renaissance Architecture 1959[14]
  • A General History of Architecture 1960[14]
  • A History of Classical Architecture 1965[14][18][19]
  • The Great Tradition of Western Architecture 1968[20]
  • Historic Architecture of Newcastle upon Tyne 1969[14]
  • Modern Architecture of Northern England 1969[14]
  • The Study of Architectural History 1970[14]
  • Romanesque Architecture: the Romanesque achievement 1971
  • A Modern Theory of Architecture 1977[14]
  • The Garden Earth. The Case for Ecological Morality 1972[8]
  • Towards a Humane Architecture 1974[14][21]
  • The Larousse Guide to the Architecture of Europe 1985
  • Spirit of Europe: a subliminal history 1997[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Allsopp, (Harold) Bruce". Who's Who. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U176519.
  2. ^ "Obituaries". Worthing Herald. 26 June 1953. p. 2.
  3. ^ Allsopp. B (1997). Spirit of Europe. A Subliminal History. Book Guild. p. ix. ISBN 9781857761689.
  4. ^ The Athenaeum. Vol. 1. 1912. p. 664.
  5. ^ a b Dolman, Bernard (1962). Who's Who in Art. Vol. 11. p. 12.
  6. ^ a b Allsopp, Bruce (1968). "Architectural History and Practice". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 116 (5139): 180–238. JSTOR 41370072.
  7. ^ Durham University Calendar 1961-62. p. 43.
  8. ^ a b Bentley Glass (September 1973). "The Garden Earth. The Case for Ecological Morality. Bruce Allsopp". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 48 (3): 522. doi:10.1086/407776.
  9. ^ "Elections". Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects: 1. 1957.
  10. ^ "Obituary: Dennis Flanders". The Independent. 17 August 1994.
  11. ^ Past Master List. Art Workers' Guild.
  12. ^ "Bruce Allsopp". Newcastle Evening Chronicle. 29 April 1971. p. 6.
  13. ^ Eleanor Jolliffe (7 November 2018). "Architecture is not a rapid-response artform". Building Design.
  14. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Brian Allsopp". Worldcat. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  15. ^ "Reviews". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 11 (3): 266–268. 1 March 1953. doi:10.2307/426767. JSTOR 426767.
  16. ^ "Reviews". Truth. 25 April 1952. pp. 19–20.
  17. ^ "Reviews". Illustrated London News. 31 May 1952. p. 38.
  18. ^ "Bruce Allsopp:A History of Classical Architecture review". The Classical Review. 17 (1): 91–94. March 1967. doi:10.1017/S0009840X00323320. S2CID 162471645.
  19. ^ "Reviews". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 115(5128). March 1967. JSTOR 41369890.
  20. ^ "Reviews". Architectural Science Review. 11: 30–37. 1968. doi:10.1080/00038628.1968.9696233.
  21. ^ Nemeth. L (Autumn 1975). "Towards a Humane Architecture by Bruce Allsopp (review)". Leonardo. 8 (4): 353. ISSN 1530-9282.
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