Clifford Holliday

Albert Clifford Holliday
Born(1897-12-21)21 December 1897
Gildersome, England
Died26 September 1960(1960-09-26) (aged 62)
Manchester, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Liverpool
OccupationArchitect
DesignMaster plan of Jerusalem
Holliday's city plan for Jerusalem (1930)

Albert Clifford Holliday (1897–1960) M. Arch, Dip. C.D., F.R.I.B.A., M.T.P.,[1] was a British architect and town planner who worked in several places across the British Empire, including Mandatory Palestine, Ceylon and Gibraltar, as well as in the UK.

Studies

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Holliday gained his qualifications at the University of Liverpool where he studied under Sir Charles Reilly and Patrick Abercrombie.[2] He later designed the University of Ceylon with Abercrombie.[3]

Career

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Mandate Palestine

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Holliday was commissioned as civic adviser to the city of Jerusalem between 1922 and 1926[3] and town planning advisor to the mandatory government of Palestine between 1928 and 1934.[2] He drew up a master plan for Jerusalem and the restoration of its Old City walls.[4]

United Kingdom

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In 1938, Holliday's design for a satellite town near Kincorth, outside Aberdeen, won an international prize.[3]

In 1947, he was appointed Chief Architect for the first postwar British new town, Stevenage.[2] He revised the plan for Stevenage, from the Ministry of Town and Country Planning's original plan, in 1949.[5]

In 1952 Holliday became Professor of Town and Country Planning at the University of Manchester.[3]

He was also involved in preparing the designs for Haslingden and Stoke-on-Trent.[3]

Private life

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Holliday had four sons.[citation needed]

Selected work

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Buildings

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Jerusalem

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Elsewhere

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Town plans

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In Palestine (1922-35)

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See also

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  • Charles Robert Ashbee, first British-appointed town planner of Jerusalem (1919-1922)
  • Patrick Geddes, designed the master plan for Tel Aviv in 1927
  • Zoltan Harmat, Jewish architect who worked both for Holliday's Jerusalem office and privately
  • Austin Harrison, British town planner and architect active in Mandatory Palestine
  • Richard Kauffmann, Jewish-German town planner and architect active in Mandatory Palestine
  • Ernest Tatham Richmond, British architect, Consulting Architect to the Haram ash-Sharif (1918–20)

References

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  1. ^ 'University of Manchester' (advertisement) Manchester Guardian, 18 January 1957 p. 12
  2. ^ a b c 'Stevenage Architect', Manchester Guardian, 16 October 1947, p. 6
  3. ^ a b c d e f 'Prof. C. Holliday' London Guardian, 30 September 1960 p. 15
  4. ^ Herbert, Gilbert (2003). "Holliday, A(lbert) Clifford". Oxford Art Online. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t038658. ISBN 978-1-884446-05-4.(subscription required)
  5. ^ Frank Schaffer, The New Town Story, Macgibbon and See, London 1970 p. 261
  6. ^ "Jerusalem House of Quality". Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  7. ^ "A Tantalizing Tour of Jerusalem's Magical Armenian Tiles". Moshe Gilad for Haaretz. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  8. ^ "8 Safra Square". Emporis. Retrieved 2 June 2022.[dead link]
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i Yacobi, Haim (2010). "The language of modernity : urban design in mandatory Lydda". Jerusalem Quarterly (42). Institute of Jerusalem Studies: 80-93 []. Retrieved 29 November 2021.