Alexander greek thomson biography summary

Architecture of Glasgow. Alexander Thomson was born in in Balfron, a small town in Stirlingshire, 18 miles north of Glasgow. The remaining children moved in with an older brother, William, who was a teacher on the south side of Glasgow.

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Holmwood House. The Builder vol. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline. Thomson died on 22 March at the home he designed himself in Moray Place in Glasgow. Source: Ziller Later in his career he came to concentrate much more on the pure Ionic Greek style, and is often seen as the last of the British Greek Revival architects.

Law, Graham C. AA Files no. By , his mother, his oldest sister and three brothers had also died and the remaining children moved in with an older brother, William, a teacher in a district on the south side of Glasgow. The Greek Revival. Between and , his mother, his oldest sister, and three of his brothers, all died. Useful Links.

McKinstry, Sam W. Alexander Thomson. Greek Thomson. Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. Thomson's buildings are, however, rich in incised Greek ornament and other details such as acroteria, column capitals, decorative ironwork and his ubiquitous urns and Egyptianate chimneypots, the latter manufactured by the Garnkirk Coal Company which commissioned Thomson and Click to open info-page.

Contributed by Harvard University in German. Bibliography " Alexander Thomson. One being the commissioning of a marble bust, by Click to open info-page. The one who stayed, Alexander Greek Thomson , is known outside Glasgow mostly by architectural connoisseurs.

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Quarterly of the Royal Incorporated Architects of Scotland vol. He was an eminent Glaswegian architect. The life and works of Alexander Thomson. He then became an apprentice to Glasgow architect Robert Foote, later going on to gain a job in the office of architect John Baird as a draughtsman. The partnership was dissolved in and he formed a new partnership with his younger brother, George Thomson , A.

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. He even published a pamphlet in — Inquiry as to the Appropriateness of the Gothic Style for the Proposed Building for the University of Glasgow — in which he took issue with Ruskin and Pugin and denounced the Gothic as expressive of centuries of decadent Roman Catholic Christianity and incompatible with the return to the original Christianity, at once free and disciplined, which he saw as the essence of his austere Presbyterian faith.

Baird's Gardner's Warehouse, Glasgow, made revolutionary structural use of cast-iron.