Clifford Holliday
| Albert Clifford Holliday | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 December 1897 Gildersome, England |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Manchester, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Liverpool |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Design | Master plan of Jerusalem |
Albert Clifford Holliday (1897–1960) M. Arch, Dip. C.D., F.R.I.B.A., M.T.P.,[1] was a British architect and town planner who worked in several places across the British Empire, including Mandatory Palestine, Ceylon and Gibraltar, as well as in the UK.
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Studies
Holliday gained his qualifications at the University of Liverpool where he studied under Sir Charles Reilly and Patrick Abercrombie.[2] He later designed the University of Ceylon with Abercrombie.[3]
Career
Mandate Palestine
Holliday was commissioned as civic adviser to the city of Jerusalem between 1922-26[3] and town planning advisor to the mandatory government of Palestine between 1928 and 1934.[2] He drew up a master plan for Jerusalem and the restoration of its Old City walls.[4]
United Kingdom
In 1938, Holliday's design for a satellite town near Kincorth, outside Aberdeen, won an international prize.[3]
In 1947, he was appointed Chief Architect for the first postwar British new town, Stevenage.[2] He revised the plan for Stevenage, from the Ministry of Town and Country Planning's original plan, in 1949.[5]
In 1952 Holliday became Professor of Town and Country Planning at the University of Manchester.[3]
He was also involved in preparing the designs for Haslingden and Stoke-on-Trent.[3]
Private life
Holliday had four sons.
Selected work
Buldings
Jerusalem
- Saint John Eye Hospital: new wing of first building
- St Andrew's Church, aka the Scots Memorial Church (1930)
- Old Town Hall (1930)
Elsewhere
- University of Ceylon, together with Patrick Abercrombie.[3]
Town plans
In Palestine (1922-35)
- Jaffa[6]
- Jerusalem[6]
- Lydda – C. Holliday in 1829, followed later by Otto Polchek[6]
- Netanya[6]
- Ramla[6]
- Tiberias[6]
See also
- Charles Robert Ashbee, first British-appointed town planner of Jerusalem (1919-1922)
- Patrick Geddes, designed the master plan for Tel Aviv in 1927
- Austin Harrison, British town planner and architect active in Mandatory Palestine
- Richard Kauffmann, Jewish-German town planner and architect active in Mandatory Palestine
- Ernest Tatham Richmond, British architect, Consulting Architect to the Haram ash-Sharif (1918–20)
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- ↑ 'University of Manchester' (advertisement) Manchester Guardian, 18 January 1957 p. 12
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 'Stevenage Architect', Manchester Guardian, 16 October 1947, p. 6
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 'Prof. C. Holliday' London Guardian, 30 September 1960 p. 15
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- ↑ Frank Schaffer, The New Town Story, Macgibbon and See, London 1970 p. 261
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