Professor (Arthur) Beresford Pite MA, ARIBA, Hon ARCA, OBE
Born 2 September 1861
Died 27 November 1934
Active: 1882 - 1934
Country of birth and death: England
Architect, educator
Born in Walworth, Surrey. He was the son of Alfred Robert Pite (1832–1911), architect. As well as practicing professionally, Pite was busy teaching from 1900. He became the first Professor of Architecture at the Royal College of Art at the invitation of his friend, W. R. Lethaby, a post that he held till 1923. He was also architectural director of the London County Council's School of Building in Brixton, and, from 1909-31, a member of the University of Cambridge board of architectural studies. Through his drawing, teaching, and lecturing he attracted a number of young admirers, including Charles Holden, A. E. Richardson, H. S. Goodhart-Rendel, William Curtis Green, and H. Berry Webber. Pite died at Beckenham, Kent.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Speaker at Temporary Street Decoration (Art Workers Guild), 1914
Institutional and Business Connections
Member of Art Workers Guild
1884 - 1934 (Presumed)
Professor of architecture at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1900 - 1923
See 'Appendix III. Post Holders of the Post of Professor at the Royal College of Art from 1900 (Date of re-organisation)' in the College's 1939-1940 Prospectus.
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1914, p.10.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Brian Hanson, ‘Pite, Arthur Beresford (1861–1934)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/56389, accessed 14 Aug 2010]
Prospectus of the Royal College of Art, 1939-1940 Royal College of Art
1939
p. 37.
Citing this record
'Professor (Arthur) Beresford Pite MA, ARIBA, Hon ARCA, OBE', 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/person.php?id=msib2_1217243831, accessed 22 Feb 2020]
