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The surviving School of Art building is a red brick [[Victorian Gothic]] structure, completed after its architect [[J H Chamberlain]]'s death and widely considered his masterpiece. Its [[Venice|Venetian]] style and naturalistic decoration are heavily influenced by [[Ruskin|John Ruskin]]'s ''Stones of Venice''. |
The surviving School of Art building is a red brick [[Victorian Gothic]] structure, completed after its architect [[J H Chamberlain]]'s death and widely considered his masterpiece. Its [[Venice|Venetian]] style and naturalistic decoration are heavily influenced by [[Ruskin|John Ruskin]]'s ''Stones of Venice''. |
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[[Image:Db05b0088s.jpg|frame|School of Art and Design Building, Margaret Street]] |
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Revision as of 01:12, 21 January 2006
The Birmingham School of Art was a municipal art school based in Birmingham, England. Although the organisation was absorbed by Birmingham Polytechnic in 1971 and is now part of the University of Central England's Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, its Grade 1 listed building on Margaret Street remains the home of the University's Department of Fine Art and is still commonly referred to by its original title.
History
The origins of the School of Art lie with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, who founded the Birmingham Government School of Design in 1843. In 1877 Birmingham City Council was persuaded by the school's energetic headmaster E R Taylor to take the school over and expand it to form the United Kingdom's first municipal college of art. As a result the current building was commissioned from architect J H Chamberlain and opened in 1885.
An associated School of Architecture was formed in 1909 and received recognition by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1923. By the 1960s the School had outgrown the original Margaret Street building and expanded into the campus of the University of Aston in Gosta Green.
In 1971, with the founding of Birmingham Polytechnic, the School of Art lost its independence and became the Polytechnic's Faculty of Art and Design. In 1988 this in turn absorbed the former Bournville College of Art to form the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, the largest centre for education in art, design and the media in the United Kingdom outside London. Birmingham Polytechnic gained University status in 1992 as the University of Central England.
Building
The surviving School of Art building is a red brick Victorian Gothic structure, completed after its architect J H Chamberlain's death and widely considered his masterpiece. Its Venetian style and naturalistic decoration are heavily influenced by John Ruskin's Stones of Venice.