Architectural School
Other names: School of Architecture
Foundation date: 1909
Active: 1909 - 1951
Function: Art school
Policy: From 1909 the Architecture School was listed in the programme as a seperate Day School, however, it continued to operate within the main Municipal School of Art Central School.
The School was suspended from 1916 to 1920 during 'the period of the war'.
Activities: art classes
Publications: annual reports
Benefits: eligible for awards, eligible for exhibition
Composition: amateurs
Funding types: annual subscription
Grants
Purpose: prize
Beneficiaries: students
Employees, Students & Members
Numbers: 14-32
Period Start: 1919
Period End: 1922
Institutional and Business Connections
Affiliated with Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Central School
1909 - 1951
Listed as a seperated School, but still operating within the Central School.
Associated People
Principals included J.L. Ball
1909 - 1916
Described as General Director of Architecture.
Principals included William Henry Bidlake
1919 - 1923
Principals included G. Drysdale
1923 - 1940
Teachers of modeling included William James Bloye
1923 - 1925
Listed as teacher of Modelling and Stone-cutting.
Sources
The Effort, January 1923
Birmingham Periodicals
January 1923
p. 3
Citing this record
'Architectural School', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib4_1206712527, accessed 17 May 2022]