"English Architect" Albert Richardson Signed 2X4 Card Dated 1935 For Sale

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"English Architect" Albert Richardson Signed 2X4 Card Dated 1935:
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Up for sale a RARE! "English Architect" Albert Richardson Hand Signed 2X4 Card Dated 1935. 

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Sir

Albert Edward 19 May 1880 – 3 February 1964) was a leading

English architect, teacher and writer about architecture during the first half

of the 20th century. He was Professor of Architecture at University College London,

a President of the Royal Academy, editor

of Architects' Journal and

founder of the Georgian Group. Richardson

was born in London. He trained in the offices of Leonard Stokes and Frank T. Verity, practitioners of the Beaux-Arts style, and in

1906 he established his first architectural practice, in partnership with Charles Lovett Gill (the

Richardson & Gill partnership was eventually dissolved in 1939). He wrote

several articles for Architectural Review and

the survey of London Houses from 1660 to 1820: a Consideration of their

Architecture and Detail (1911). In the following year he was appointed

architect to the Prince of Wales's Duchy of Cornwall Estate. His massive work, Monumental

Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland (1914) established

him as a scholar; in it he reappraised the Greek Revival architects C.R. Cockerell and Henri Labrouste. In his own work he was strongly influenced by

nostalgia for the craftsmanship of the late Georgian era and Soane in particular, but he recognised that his

classical ideals needed to be developed to meet the challenges of Modernism. The result was a synthesis of traditional and

modern approaches which was adapted and applied to industrial and commercial buildings,

churches and houses. His deep knowledge of and sympathy towards Georgian design

also helped him in numerous post-war commissions to restore bomb-damaged

Georgian buildings. Ironically, several of his designs – most

notably, Bracken House in

the City of London, the first

post-war London building to be listed and protected from redevelopment – are now

regarded as classic milestones of 20th century design. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1947 and was elected

President of the Royal Academy in 1954; he was knighted in 1956. From 1957-1964

Richardson served as President of the Ealing Art Group. From 1919 until his death in 1964,

Richardson lived at Avenue House, 20 Church Street, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, an 18th-century townhouse in which he

initially refused to install electricity, believing that his home needed to

reflect Georgian standards of living if he was truly to understand their way of

life, though he was later persuaded to change his mind by his wife, Elizabeth

Byers (March 1882 – 1958), whom he had married in 1904. They had one daughter. 

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