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
Died	22 February 2000(2000-02-22) (aged 87)
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Lecturer, historian
Known for	Architectural historian Co-founder of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain

Career

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

• 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]