Gerald Rushworth Beech (1921 – 2013) was an English architect. Beech was born in 1921 in

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, and educated at the

University of Liverpool School of Architecture The School of Architecture is an architecture school in Liverpool, England, and part of the University of Liverpool. It was the first architecture school in the United Kingdom to be affiliated with a university, and the first to have degree ...

starting in 1937, and was a staff member there from 1948 to the 1980s. Beech also ran an architectural practice in Liverpool.

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, a house he designed with

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in the Liverpool suburb of

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, was named "House of the Year" in 1960 by ''

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''. In 1975 he was elected as chairman of the North West Regional Council of the

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. Beech died in 2013. The Gerald Beech Partnership Papers are held by the University of Liverpool Library.

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1921 births 2013 deaths Alumni of the University of Liverpool Architects from Cheshire {{UK-architect-stub