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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880–1960), PRIBA, OM, RA, RGM

Reginald Grenville Eves (1876–1941)

The Royal Institute of British Architects

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880–1960), PRIBA, OM, RA, RGM

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Giles Gilbert Scott (1880–1960) was the grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott and represented all that was best in the British architecture of his day. His works involved both the traditional and the hallowed, the exciting and the new. An heir to the Gothic tradition, he almost singlehandedly recreated Gothic architecture and gave it new life in his precocious designs for Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral (1901–1960). Yet he also designed a new University Library for Cambridge (1931) and Battersea Power Station (1932) in a modern idiom that, apart from the use of brick, did not seem to relate to historicist architecture. Now he is seen as a twentieth-century traditionalist. He was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1933–1935.

The Royal Institute of British Architects

London

Title

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880–1960), PRIBA, OM, RA, RGM

Date

c.1935

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 76 x W 63.5 cm

Accession number

PCF48

Acquisition method

commissioned by the RIBA, c.1935

Work type

Painting

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Reginald Grenville Eves

1876–1941

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