page_title: Architecture of Liverpool
section_title: Liverpool School of Architecture founded 1895
hierarchical_section_title: Architecture of Liverpool / Liverpool School of Architecture founded 1895
caption_attribution_description: English: City of Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art - University College. 'accessed 14 Sep 2013 School of Architecture and Applied Art (Art Sheds), Liverpool', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011
context_page_description: The architecture of Liverpool is rooted in the city's development into a major port of the British Empire. It encompasses a variety of architectural styles of the past 300 years, while next to nothing remains of its medieval structures which would have dated back as far as the 13th century. Erected 1716-18, Bluecoat Chambers is supposed to be the oldest surviving building in central Liverpool.
  There are over 2500 listed buildings in Liverpool of which 27 are Grade I and 85 Grade II* listed. It has been described by English Heritage as England's finest Victorian city. However, due to neglect, some of Liverpool's finest listed buildings are on English Heritage's Heritage at Risk register. Though listed buildings are concentrated in the centre, Liverpool has many buildings of interest throughout its suburbs.
  In accordance with Liverpool's role as a trading port, many of its best buildings were erected as headquarters for shipping firms and insurance companies. The wealth thus generated led to the construction of grand civic buildings, designed to allow the local administrators to "run the city with pride".
context_section_description: Liverpool has a long tradition of academic analysis in the field of architecture, being home to both the first School of Architecture officially The City of Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art founded 1895, the school was funded by both Liverpool City Council and what was then known as the University College Liverpool. The Architecture degree course was initiated in 1901. The second professor in post Charles Herbert Reilly, was influenced by Beaux-Arts architecture as practised in the US, that it became a full department of what became the first University Department of Civic Design in the United Kingdom.
caption: Poster 1913 for Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art
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