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Herbert Baker (born Herbert Joseph Abrahams; December 25, 1920, New York City – June 30, 1983, Encino, Los Angeles, California) was a songwriter and screenwriter for television and films.
Sir Herbert Baker (9 de junho de 1862, Cobham, Kent - 4 de fevereiro de 1946, Cobham, Kent) foi um arquiteto britânico. Herbert Baker foi a força dominante na arquitetura da África do Sul durante duas décadas, de 1892 a 1912.
- Life and Career
- South Africa
- Some Herbert Baker Buildings in South Africa
- Union Buildings, South Africa
- Rhodes Cottage, Boschendal South Africa
- India
- United Kingdom
- Belgium
- Kenya
- France
The fourth son of nine children of Thomas Henry Baker (1824–1904), J.P., of Owletts, a gentleman farmer and director of the Kent Fire and Life Insurance Company, by his wife Frances Georgina (née Davis), Herbert was from the outset exposed to a tradition of good craftsmanship, preserved through isolation in the neighbourhood of his home in Kent. As...
He embarked for South Africa in 1892 ostensibly to visit his brother, and was commissioned in 1893 by Cecil Rhodes to remodel Groote Schuur, Rhodes' house on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town, and the residence of South African Prime Ministers. Rhodes sponsored Baker's further education in Greece, Italy and Egypt, after which he returned to...
Beach road Muizenberg, Cape TownBishop Bavin School, St. George'sBishop's Lea, GeorgeIn 1909 Baker was commissioned to design the Government Building of the Union of South Africa (which was formed on 31 May 1910) in Pretoria. Pretoria was to become the administrative centre for the new government. In November 1910, the cornerstone of the Union Buildingswas laid. Lord Selborne and Henry Charles Hull, a member of the first Union Cabi...
In 1897, Cecil John Rhodes started large scale fruit farming in the Drakenstein Valley and commissioned Baker to design his country retreat on the farm Nieuwedorp at Boschendal. In contrast to the spectacular mountain views, the brief was to design a simple country cottage combining Cape cottage features and incorporating indigenous yellowwood and ...
In 1912 Baker went to India to work with Lutyens, and went on to design the Secretariat Building in New Delhi and Parliament House, also in New Delhi. He also designed the bungalows of Members of Parliament in New Delhi. Baker designed the two Secretariat buildings flanking the great axis leading to what was then Viceroy's House, the palace of the ...
Works from 1913 include: 1. War Memorial Building, Harrow on the Hill(English Heritage TQ1534987385) 2. South Africa House, the South African High Commission building in Trafalgar Square, London 3. India House, Aldwych (1925–1930), the Indian High Commission, opened by King George Von 8 July 1930. 4. The Port Lympne Mansion (now a zoo) in Kentin so...
Following the First World War, Baker was appointed one of four principal architects by the Imperial War Graves Commission to design war cemeteries and monuments for British Commonwealth soldiers killed in the conflict. Out of this came the design for Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest British war cemetery in the world sited in Passchendaele near Ypres ...
Sir Edward Grigg, Governor of Kenya from 1925 to 1931, invited Baker to visit Kenyain 1925. Baker wrote: "The Governor and Director of Education were much concerned to provide a healthy education for the European youth under the conditions of the climate. So with their encouragement I designed a school at Nairobi with a crypt as a playground – like...
Post the First World War, Baker worked on cemeteries in France including: 1. Adanac Military Cemetery 2. Australian Imperial Forceburial ground 3. Delville Wood Cemetery and Memorial 4. Courcelette Memorial, Canadian war memorial 5. Dantzig Alley British Cemetery 6. Flatiron Copse Cemetery 7. Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery 8. London Cemetery and Extensi...
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- Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
- Writer
- December 25, 1920
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