Harold Bruce Allsopp FSA

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(4 July 1912 – 22 February 2000) was a British architectural historian, educator and publisher.

Career

Howard Bruce Allsopp was born in 1912 in Oxford to Heny Allsopp, a historian, poet and vice principal of

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, and his wife Elizabeth May Allsopp (née Robertson). Bruce Allsopp attended Crimsworth School and

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before studying architecture at the University of Liverpool School of Architecture under Sir Charles Reilly,

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and

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. He served in the

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during World War II and taught at Leeds School of Art from 1935 to 1946. During 1935 he married Florence Cyrilla Woodroffe. From 1946 he taught at Newcastle University School of Architecture (originally part of Durham University), where he held a variety of posts, including senior lecturer and director of architectural studies. In 1957 he was elected a fellow of the

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. Allsopp was a co-founder of the

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in 1955 and served as its first chair. In 1962 he founded the Oriel Press. In 1970 he was elected as the Master of the

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. Allsopp said in Architect and Patron:

Selected published works

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Allsop, Bruce Architectural historians 1912 births 2000 deaths Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects Masters of the Art Worker's Guild People educated at Manchester Grammar School