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Albert Clifford Holliday
Born (1897-12-21 ) 21 December 1897Died 26 September 1960(1960-09-26) (aged 62) Nationality British Alma mater
University of Liverpool Occupation Architect Design Master 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.
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]
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]
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]
Holliday had four sons.[
citation needed ]
Ophthalmic Hospital Jerusalem, new wing seen from St Andrew's Church (1934-39)
Ophthalmic Hospital, today's Jerusalem House of Quality
Bible Society Building, design: A. Clifford Holliday's firm, Jerusalem, 1926-28
Barclay's building, design: A. Clifford Holliday's firm, Jerusalem, 1939
St. Andrew's Church, design: A. Clifford Holliday's firm, Jerusalem, opened 1930
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)
^ 'University of Manchester' (advertisement) Manchester Guardian , 18 January 1957 p. 12
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c 'Stevenage Architect', Manchester Guardian , 16 October 1947, p. 6
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f 'Prof. C. Holliday' London Guardian , 30 September 1960 p. 15
^ 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)
^ Frank Schaffer, The New Town Story , Macgibbon and See, London 1970 p. 261
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"Jerusalem House of Quality" . Retrieved 2 January 2017 .
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"A Tantalizing Tour of Jerusalem's Magical Armenian Tiles" . Moshe Gilad for
Haaretz . 11 December 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2022 .
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"8 Safra Square" . emporis.com . Retrieved 2 June 2022 . [
dead link ]
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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 .
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