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Lyall Holmes, B.E. (Hons), F.N.Z.L.E., M.I.E.E., M.I.STRUCT.E.,(16 October 1920 – 26 August 1970) was a New Zealand structural engineer whose advances in concrete masonry building methods in the 1950s and 1960s were central to the avant-garde style of modernist architecture known as New Brutalism which emerged in the 1950s. It was epitomised locally in the work of architects such as Miles Warren, Maurice Mahoney (Warren & Mahoney) and Paul Pascoe. Holmes engineered many of Canterbury's first modernist buildings including the Dorset Street Flats, the SIMU building, the Students' Association building at Canterbury University and the Christchurch Town Hall. He also worked in Vanuatu (then called the New Hebrides) and the Solomon Islands engineering hospitals, schools, a Government House and a cathedral. Holmes was 49 when he died part way through construction of the Christchurch Town Hall. == Early years: 1920 to 1947 == Holmes was born in Wellington on 16 October 1920 to Ivan Milo and Agnes Hay (née Lyall). He attended Wellington College (New Zealand) from 1934 to 1938. He then started engineering studies at Victoria University College in Wellington in 1939 and transferred to Canterbury University College in Christchurch in 1940 where he completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) in 1942. For the next four years Holmes lectured in civil engineering; his areas of expertise were Hydraulics, the design and theory of structures, and estimates and contracts. He was keenly interested in the standard of engineering education and was described as a "tower of strength" by his former student Robert Park, who went on to become a world-renowned earthquake engineer. 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「I. Lyall Holmes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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