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Alec Clifton-Taylor (2 August 1907 – 1 April 1985) was an English architectural historian, writer and TV broadcaster. ==Biography and works== Clifton-Taylor was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at the Queen's College, Oxford, and went on to the Courtauld Institute of Art. During World War II he served in the Admiralty.〔Obituary, Daily Telegraph (London), 8 April 1985.〕 His best-known and most influential book is ''The Pattern of English Building'' (1962) (ISBN 0-571-14890-5), an examination of the architectural vernacular. It orders its subject according to the building materials and methods used in England. Two of his other books are studies of ecclesiastical architecture: ''The Cathedrals of England'' and ''English Parish Churches as Works of Art''. Along with Nikolaus Pevsner (to whose ''Buildings of England'' series he was a contributor) and John Betjeman, Clifton-Taylor is considered one of the three most significant figures in the study of English churches.〔Jenkins, S. and Barker, P. ''England's Thousand Best Churches'', Penguin, 2000, ISBN 978-0-14-029795-9〕 Clifton-Taylor gained his greatest public recognition late in life through his work for the BBC. After being introduced through Pevsner to BBC arts producer John Drummond, Clifton-Taylor presented a television programme on mediaeval building in the series on British architecture, ''The Spirit of the Age'', broadcast in 1974–75.〔(Obituary, Sir John Drummond ), Daily Telegraph, 09-09-2006〕 Clifton-Taylor went on to present three extremely popular series of 30- or 40-minute BBC programmes: ''Six English Towns'' (1977), ''Six More English Towns'' (1981), and ''Another Six English Towns'' (1984), in which he visited Chichester, Richmond, Tewkesbury, Stamford, Totnes, Ludlow, Warwick, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Saffron Walden, Lewes, Bradford on Avon, Beverley, Cirencester, Whitby, Bury St Edmunds, Devizes, Sandwich and Durham, discussing their architectural character and evolution in an accessible and courteous (if uncompromising) style. Each series was accompanied by its own book. Clifton-Taylor was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1982 for "services to the study of architecture".〔Supplement to The London Gazette, Issue 49008, 11 June 1982, (page 12 ). Retrieved 2011-11-03.〕 Clifton-Taylor believed that local materials had to be used for buildings to look 'right', and was therefore critical of much Victorian and subsequent architecture, erected after the railways had facilitated the transport of cheaper materials alien to a particular locale. He also regarded the Victorians as aesthetically poor restorers. His other books are ''Buildings of Delight'', ''English Brickwork'' (with Ronald Brunskill) and ''English Stone Building''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alec Clifton-Taylor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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