Elisabeth Whitworth Scott, 20 September 1898 to 19 June 1972, was a British architect. Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
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Career
Elisabeth Scott was the designer of the 1932 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford, England, the first important public building in Britain to be designed by a female architect [1] . "Shakespeare Theatre" redirects here For the theatre of that name in Newcastle see Shakespeare Theatre (Newcastle; for Shakespeare's original theatre see Stratford-upon-Avon (ˌstrætfɚd əpɒn ˈɛɪvən is a Market town and Civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. It is designed in a modern rather than a Classical or other historical style. [2] In 1924, when Scott entered practice, there were no prominent women architects and her selection for the project to rebuild the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre after it was destroyed by fire was only through her success (against seventy-one other entries) in an international competition. Her achievement, and her decision to employ where possible women architects to assist her on the Stratford design, was instrumental in opening up the profession to women.
Two months before the new Memorial Theatre was to open it had been agreed that Sir Edward Elgar, then 75, would be its new musical director. But after visiting the building he was furiously angry with that "awful female", announcing that her design was "so unspeakably ugly and wrong" that he would have nothing further to do with it. However, while the consensus of opinion was hostile, the modernist Architectural Review in its June 1932 issue, pp 219-223, pronounced her building a triumph - a review quoted at length by Sally Beauman in The RSC: A History of Ten Decades).
Feminism
Scott was a quiet, but practical, feminist and she worked through the Fawcett Society to promote the acceptance of women in the professions. The Fawcett Society is an organization in the United Kingdom which promotes Feminism and campaigns for women's rights
Family
Scott was the great-niece of the renowned architect George Gilbert Scott. Sir George Gilbert Scott ( 13 July 1811 &ndash 27 March, 1878) was an English Architect of the Victorian Age In 1936 she married George Richards.
References
- ^ Pringle p 29
- ^ Stamp, Gavin. Risky Buildings The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved on 2007-08-22. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
Sources
- Beauman, Sally : The Royal Shakespeare Company: A History of Ten Decades, Oxford University Press (1983) ISBN 0192122096
- Bury, David : Elgar Society Journal: Elgar and the Awful Female, Elgar Editions ISBN 0953708268
- Pringle, Marian : The Theatres of Stratford-upon-Avon 1875 – 1992: An Architectural History, Stratford upon Avon Society (1994) ISBN 0-9514178-1-9
- Stamp, Gavin (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
- (2007) Who Was Who. London: A&C Black.
- "Trial flight for the Swan of Avon", Guardian, 1932-03-27. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. 1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Retrieved on 2007-02-28. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 202 BC - coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty 's rule
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