Oliver Hill (architect)
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Oliver Hill was an English architect
, landscape architect
, and garden designer
. Oliver Hill was apprenticed to a builder and then to an architect. Oliver Hill's early garden designs were in the Arts and Crafts
style but he turned towards modernism
in the 1930s, favouring curved lines. He designed the British pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1937.
Hill was a Fellow of the Institute of Landscape Architects and enjoyed a reputation as a country house designer.
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
, landscape architect
Landscape architect
A landscape architect is a person involved in the planning, design and sometimes direction of a landscape, garden, or distinct space. The professional practice is known as landscape architecture....
, and garden designer
Garden designer
The term garden designer can refer either to an amateur or a professional who designs the plan and features of gardens. Amateurs design their gardens for their own properties. Professionals, with experienced skills, design gardens that benefit clients...
. Oliver Hill was apprenticed to a builder and then to an architect. Oliver Hill's early garden designs were in the Arts and Crafts
Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 , continuing its influence until the 1930s...
style but he turned towards modernism
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
in the 1930s, favouring curved lines. He designed the British pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1937.
Hill was a Fellow of the Institute of Landscape Architects and enjoyed a reputation as a country house designer.
Works
- Moor Close, Binfeld , Berks (alterations 1910 - 13)
- Cour, Kintyre, Argyll (1922)
- Exhibition stands for Moorcroft, Wedgwood and Pilkingtons/Twyford at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley (1924)
- Woodhouse Copse, Holmbury St Mary, Surrey (1926)
- 40 & 41 Chelsea Square, London SW3 (1930)
- The Midland HotelMidland Hotel (Morecambe)The Midland Hotel is a famous Streamline Moderne building in Morecambe, in Lancashire, England. It was built by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway , in 1933, to the designs of architect Oliver Hill, with sculpture by Eric Gill. It is a Grade II* listed building...
in MorecambeMorecambeMorecambe is a resort town and civil parish within the City of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. As of 2001 it has a resident population of 38,917. It faces into Morecambe Bay...
. (1932) - Joldwynds, Holmbury St Mary, Surrey (1932 - 4)
- Landfall, Poole, Dorset (1936 - 8)
- First School, Methley Road, Castleford (1939–40)
- The Priory, Long Newnton, Tetbury (1963)