Anthony Minoprio Prize

Anthony Minoprio (1900-1988) attended Harrow and University College, Oxford before entering the Liverpool School of Architecture in 1920 having been 'recruited' by Professor (Sir) Charles Herbert Reilly. Minoprio gained experience in the offices of Thomas Hastings in New York in 1924 - one of a number of Liverpool students who worked in North American offices. He graduated B.Arch (1925) and MA (1928).

Anthony Minoprio

Image by kind permission of John Minoprio

After graduation Minoprio went into partnership with Hugh Grenville Spencely (1900-1983 B.Arch 1926, Dip. Civic Design 1928) and together they won numerous commissions including Ramsgate Harbour Station (1929) and an extension to the School for the Blind on Hardman Street, Liverpool in the 1930s. Following World War Two, the partnership worked on a variety of planning schemes for Chelmsford, Worcester and for Kuwait and Baghdad.

The Anthony Minoprio Prize is given for the best set of rendered drawings in the BA.

School for the Blind on Hardman Street, Liverpool. Image by Royden1 CC BY-SA 4.0

School for the Blind on Hardman Street, Liverpool. Image by Royden1 CC BY-SA 4.0

Further Reading

Obituaries, Times, 5 March 1988; Daily Telegraph, 9 March 1988.

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