Date: Thursday 13th February 2020

Venue: Budden Lecture Theatre

Time: 17:00 - 19:00

Head of the Liverpool School of Architecture from 1904 to 1933, Charles Reilly (1874-1948) was a key figure in British architecture in the first half of the 20^th century. He raised the Liverpool School to international prominence, cultivating links with the United States and promoting American-influenced classicism, before ultimately embracing international modernism. Among his students were leading modernists of the next generation, such as William Holford and Maxwell Fry. This talk will examine Reilly’s teaching methods and his legacy, including his impact on the architecture of Liverpool.  

Biography

Joseph Sharples is an architectural historian and author of the Pevsner Architectural Guide to Liverpool (Yale, 2004). He was a curator with National Museums Liverpool in the 1990s, where he organised a major exhibition on Charles Reilly at the Walker Art Gallery. He has since held research posts at the universities of Liverpool, Aberdeen and Glasgow, and is currently Curator of Charles Rennie Mackintosh Collections at the Hunterian, University of Glasgow.