| 词条 | Percy Erskine Nobbs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Percy Erskine Nobbs (August 11, 1875 – November 5, 1964) was a Canadian architect who was born in Haddington, Scotland, and trained in the United Kingdom. Educated at the Edinburgh Collegiate School and Edinburgh University, he spent most of his career in the Montreal area.[1] Often working in partnership with George Taylor Hyde, Nobbs designed a great many of what would become Montreal's heritage buildings and was a key Canadian proponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement in architecture. Architecture careerHe designed the fire station on Euston Road, in the "Arts and Crafts" style. It was built in 1901-2 and still stands. Nobbs had already received awards and won prizes as a practicing architect when he came to McGill University in 1903 to teach architecture. He got the permission to practice architecture while teaching, and soon obtained commissions for private homes as well as for institutional buildings. His designs for homes had the distinction of paying a great deal of attention to the siting and orientation of the building, and the placement of the windows. He considered this at least as important as what the home actually looked like. He called it "building for Prospect as well as Aspect," and designed many an impressive mansion in this way. In partnership with Cecil Burgess, Percy Erskine Nobbs designed the J.B. Porter House on McTavish Street, Montreal, which has been demolished.[2] In 1906-1907 Nobbs was in a temporary partnership with David Robertson Brown.[3] ProjectsNobbs designed the interior decorative program of the Currie Hall at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. The Currie Building decorations evoke the achievements of the Canadian Corps in the Great War, and with the British Monarchy.[4] Nobbs and Hyde designed many McGill University buildings: Power House (1909); Strathcona Medical Building (1923); Pathology Building (1923); Pulp & Paper Research Institute (1927). Nobbs and Hyde remodeled many McGill University buildings: MacDonald Engineering Building, reconstruction after fire in 1907; major addition to the University Library, McTavish Street (1921–22); addition of West Wing at Royal Victoria College (1930–31). Nobbs and Hyde provided interiors and furniture for the Osler Memorial Library (1923). Many of his drawings for McGill University buildings can be found in his archive, held in the Canadian Architecture Collection at McGill University.[5] Nobbs and Hyde designed some commercial buildings around Montreal as well as the University Club building (1913) on Mansfield Street. Nobbs and Frank Darling designed the master plan for the University of Alberta 1909-10. With Cecil S. Burgess, Nobbs designed the Provincial College of Medicine (1920–21). Nobbs designed the Arts Building (1914–15); laboratories and Power House (1914); [6]Nobbs and Hyde won the competition for the war memorial in Regina.
He was an accomplished athlete in fencing, representing Canada at the 1908 Olympics[8] and for all of his life he was a true fisherman and founded the Atlantic Salmon Federation due to his love of fishing. He published two books, now both out of print, entitled Fencing Tactics and Salmon Tactics. His talent as a draftsman and painter—he was an RCA—was also quite exceptional. References1. ^http://cac.mcgill.ca/nobbs/ {{Commons}}2. ^Norbert Schoenauer "Domestic Architecture"(1923-2001) 3. ^Rosalind M. Pepall, Construction d'un musée beaux-arts: Montréal, 1912 (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 1986), p. 39 4. ^Canada's Historic Places 5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/percy-erskine-nobbs|title=Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds|last=|first=|date=|website=McGill Library Archival Catalogue|language=en|access-date=2018-02-27}} 6. ^http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/architects/view/1452 Percy Erskine Nobbs 7. ^http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/architects/view/1452 8. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/no/percy-nobbs-1.html |title=Percy Erskine Nobbs Olympic Results |accessdate=2010-04-03 |work=sports-reference.com}} Further reading
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| title = Acting President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts | years = 1942-1943 | with = | before = Frederick Stanely Haines | after = Ernest Fosbery }}{{S-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Nobbs, Percy Erskine}} 17 : 1875 births|1964 deaths|Scottish architects|Canadian architects|Canadian male fencers|McGill University faculty|Sportspeople from Montreal|Anglophone Quebec people|Canadian people of Scottish descent|Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts|Olympic fencers of Canada|Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics|People from Haddington, East Lothian|Arts and Crafts architects|Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)|Alumni of the University of Edinburgh|People educated at Edinburgh Collegiate School |
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