Frederick de Jersey Clere belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Frederick de Jersey Clere as Anglo-New Zealand architect (1856-1952).
Frederick de Jersey Clere was born at Walsden in 1856. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom.
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.
His best-known building is St Mary of the Angels. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in United Kingdom shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Frederick de Jersey Clere died in 1952, aged 96. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: St Mary of the Angels
