Thomas Arthur Lodge was a British architect

Architect

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He studied at the Architectural Association in London until 1909, and was then articled to Thomas Geoffry Lucas

Thomas Geoffry Lucas

Thomas Geoffry Lucas , generally known as Geoffry Lucas, but often found incorrectly spelt as Geoffrey Lucas, was a 20th century English architect...

. After a time spent with a number of different firms, Lucas and Henry Vaughan Lanchester

Henry Vaughan Lanchester

Henry Vaughan Lanchester was an English architect.Lanchester was born in St John's Wood, London. His father Henry Jones Lanchester was an established architect. The son was articled with his father, but also worked in the offices of London architects F.J. Eadle, T.W. Cutler and George Sherrin...

 took Lodge into partnership

Partnership

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 in 1923. Lucas retired in 1930, and Lanchester died in 1953, leaving Lodge in charge of the firm. The practice, now named Lanchester & Lodge, continued after his death in 1967.

Amongst other works, Lodge designed the original Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is an NHS hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, situated very close to the University of Birmingham. The hospital, which cost £545 million to construct, opened in June 2010 replacing the previous Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Selly Oak Hospital...

, which opened in 1938. The central tower of the hospital is now a listed building. In 1929 he and Lucas designed the art deco

Art Deco

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 Parkinson Building

Parkinson Building

The Parkinson Building is a grade II listed art deco building and campanile located at the University of Leeds in the West Yorkshire region of England...

 for the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

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, another grade II listed building. Also grade II listed, Hackney

London Borough of Hackney

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 Town Hall was designed by the firm and built in 1934–1937. Watford Technical College

West Herts College

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 was begun in 1938 to designs by Lanchester & Lodge, but was not finished until after the Second World War.
The David Keir building at Queen's University Belfast was designed by Lodge in the 1950s, and opened in 1959.