Architect and designer. Born Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo. In 1874, he travelled to Italy with John Ruskin to study the architecture. He later opened his own architectural practice in London, and in 1882 co-founded the Century Guild of Artists. As well as designing several houses in London, he was a pioneer of the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) movement.
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Sir Arthur Mackmurdo
Arthur H. Mackmurdo, architect, 1851 - 1942, a pioneer and founder of the Art...
Founder of the garden city movement. Born 62 Fore Street. Travelled to America in 1871 where he tried farming and was in Chicago at the time that it was being rebuilt after a great fire. The new su...
Architect, founder/editor of The Builder and inventor of the Hansom cab. Born York as Josephus Aloysius Handsom(e) into a Roman Catholic family. Made a habit of snatching failure from the jaws o...
Architect. Born Walter Adolph Georg Gropius in Berlin. He founded the Bauhaus school. His door handle designs are still being made today. At the rise of Hitler he and his wife Ilse moved to London ...
Architect. Born 8 Bloomsbury Square. Co-founder of RIBA. Died at home, 21 Upper Bedford Place.
