Alfred Waterhouse practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Alfred Waterhouse as British architect (1830-1905).
Alfred Waterhouse was born at Liverpool in 1830. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He trained at University of Manchester and Grove House School.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
Among his best-known works are Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile, Eaton Chapel and Natural History Museum. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Royal Gold Medal.
That the work was built in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Alfred Waterhouse died in 1905, aged 75. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile
- Notable work: Eaton Chapel
- Notable work: Natural History Museum
- Royal Gold Medal
- Trained at University of Manchester and Grove House School
