University of Liverpool School of Architecture

The School of Architecture is an architecture school in Liverpool, England, and is a 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 programmes validated by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), in 1895.^[1]

Abercromby Square

City of Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art – University College

Six RIBA Gold Medallists have been staff or graduates of Liverpool.^[2] The School was initially an important centre for the Arts and Crafts movement, but later promoted Classical and Modernist ideas under the influence of Charles Herbert Reilly.^[3]

Notable alumni and academic staff

• Robert Anning Bell
• Patrick Abercrombie
• Lionel Bailey Budden
• Dariush Borbor, Iranian architect, urban planner, civic designer, writer
• Maxwell Fry
• George Noel Hill
• William Holford, Baron Holford
• Leonard Cecil Howitt
• Quentin Hughes
• Augustus John^[4]
• Stirrat Johnson-Marshall
• Thomas Alwyn Lloyd
• Charles Herbert Reilly
• Colin Rowe
• Herbert James Rowse
• Giles Gilbert Scott
• James Stirling
• F. X. Velarde
• Ernst Wiesner

See also

• University of Liverpool School of Medicine
• University of Liverpool School of Veterinary Science
• Liverpool Knowledge Quarter
• Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Architecture Department