Robert Smirke

Robert Smirke
Nascimento	1 de outubro de 1780 Londres
Morte	18 de abril de 1867 (86 anos) Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Nacionalidade	Inglês
Prêmios	Medalha de Ouro do RIBA (1853)

Sir Robert Smirke (Londres, 1 de outubro de 1780 – Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 18 de abril de 1867) foi um arquiteto inglês. Foi um dos líderes da arquitetura neogrega, embora tenha empregado outros estilos arquitetônicos. Como arquiteto do Metropolitan Board of Works projetou diversos edifícios públicos de Londres, incluindo o bloco principal e a fachada do Museu Britânico. Foi um pioneiro no uso de fundações de concreto.

Esboçou a maior parte das construções antigas de Moreia.

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  British Museum, 1852
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  Entrance portico, British Museum
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  Plan of the British Museum
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  Great Staircase, British Museum
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  King's Library, British Museum
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  Bookcases in the King's Library, British Museum
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  Egyptian Gallery, British Museum

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  Covent Garden Theatre, burnt and rebuilt
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  Lancaster House
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  Inner Temple Library
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  King's College London, east wing of Somerset House
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  Paper Buildings, Inner Temple

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  Eden Bridge Carlisle
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  Perth Sheriff Court
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  Courts Lincoln Castle
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  Wellington Testimonial
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  Old Council House, Bristol
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  Former Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury
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  Former County Courts, Carlisle
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  The former Market House, Appleby
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  Gloucester Shire Hall
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  Hereford Shire Hall

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  Brightling Observatory
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  Luton Hoo
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  Whittingehame House
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  Normanby Hall
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  Erskine House
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  Lowther Castle
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  Lowther Castle
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  Cholmondeley Castle
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  Eastnor Castle
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  Oulton Hall
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  Armley House
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  Strathallan Castle

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  St Anne's Wandsworth
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  St Anne's Wandsworth
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  St Mary's Bryanston Square
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  St. Mary's Church, Bryanston Square
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  St. Philip's Church, Salford
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  St George, Brandon Hill
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  St George Tyldesley
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  The Mausoleum Milton
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  St. Peter's church Askham
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  St. Nicholas's Church, Strood
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  St. John's Church, Chatham
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  Belgrave Chapel on the right, demolished c.1910

Referências

• Colvin, H.M. (1997). A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. not cited. ISBN 0-300-07207-4 

• Smirke's work in Cumbria
• Eastnor Castle, designed by Robert Smirke