Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863) was an English architect, archaeologist, and writer. Early in his life, he trained in the architectural practice of his father, Samuel Pepys Cockerell. One of his earliest jobs found Cockerell assisting Robert Smirke in rebuilding the Covent Garden Theatre (a forerunner of today's Royal Opera House).

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  • Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863) was an English architect, archaeologist, and writer. Early in his life, he trained in the architectural practice of his father, Samuel Pepys Cockerell. One of his earliest jobs found Cockerell assisting Robert Smirke in rebuilding the Covent Garden Theatre (a forerunner of today's Royal Opera House). He set up his own practice in 1817 and became relatively successful, winning the first Royal Gold Medal for architecture in 1848 and becoming president of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1860. As an archaeologist, Cockerell is remembered for removing the reliefs from the temple of Apollo at Bassae, near Phigalia, which are now in the British Museum. Replicas of these reliefs were included in the frieze of the library of the Travellers Club, of which Charles Robert Cockerell was a founding committee member in 1819. With Jacques Ignace Hittorff and Thomas Leverton Donaldson, Cockerell was also a member of the committee formed in 1836 to determine whether the Elgin Marbles and other Greek statuary in the British Museum had originally been coloured (see Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects for 1842). The Royal Academy of Arts composed a brief commemorative biography of Cockerell, including the following sentiment which speaks to his great work as a student of architecture: "At the heart of Cockerell's emotional experience of the power of the antique to fire the imagination lay an extraordinary visual sensitivity to the mass and volume of the components of architecture, which for him were never mere abstract, weightless forms or quotations borrowed from the past, but acted together as a constantly renewable expression of man's innate need to create beauty on earth. " His second son Frederick Pepys Cockerell also became an architect.
  • Charles Robert Cockerell war ein britischer Architekt und Klassischer Archäologe. Ein Schüler seines Vaters Samuel Pepys Cockerell († 1827), war er 1809 als Assistent Robert Smirkes am Wiederaufbau des Covent Garden-Theaters beschäftigt und studierte von 1810 bis 1817 die antike Architektur in Italien, Griechenland und Kleinasien. Er beteiligte sich an der Durchforschung des Aphaiatempels in Ägina und fand mit Carl Haller von Hallerstein die nach München verkauften Figuren der Giebelfelder. Auch nahm er an den Ausgrabungen bei Phigalia teil, bei der er den Fries des Apollontempel bei Bassae nach London schaffen ließ, wo er heute im Britischen Museum zu sehen ist. 1817 eröffnete er, nach London zurückgekehrt, sein eigenes Atelier, das ziemlich erfolgreich war. Er errang 1848 die Royal Gold Medal für Architektur und wurde 1860 Präsident des Royal Institute of British Architects. In der Folge lieferte er u. a. die Entwürfe für die Church of Holy Trinity in Bristoler Stadtteil Hotwells (1829), für die Gebäude der Bank von England in Plymouth (1835), Bristol (1844–1847), Manchester (1845), Liverpool (1845–1848) sowie das Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (1839–1845) und die Erweiterung des Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (1848).
  • Charles Robert Cockerell, né le 27 avril 1788 à Londres, mort en 1863, est un architecte britannique.
  • Era figlio di Samuel Pepys Cockerell, che lo seguì nella sua formazione. In seguito collaborò con Robert Smirke nella ricostruzione del Covent Garden Theatre. Viaggiò molto, tra Grecia, Asia Minore e Italia. Proprio in Grecia seguì gli scavi di Egina e Phigalia in qualità di archeologo. La passione per l'architettura greca, unita all'ammarazione verso Christopher Wren, si tradusse in uno stile equiparabile a quello della coeva École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts di Parigi: di forme imponenti, privilegiava l'impiego di ordini colossali con poche violazioni delle regole. Le sue opere più importanti sono alcuni edifici per la Banca d'Inghilterra a Plymouth, Bristol, Manchester e Liverpool, costruiti a partire dagli anni trenta del XIX secolo, l'Ashmolean Museum dell'Università di Oxford e il Fitzwilliam Museum dell'Università di Cambridge. In seguito subentrò a Harvey Lonsdale Elmes nella costruzione della Saint George's Hall di Liverpool, realizzando la raffinata Concert Hall.
  • Charles Robert Cockerell foi um arquiteto, arqueólogo e escritor inglês.
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  • Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863) was an English architect, archaeologist, and writer. Early in his life, he trained in the architectural practice of his father, Samuel Pepys Cockerell. One of his earliest jobs found Cockerell assisting Robert Smirke in rebuilding the Covent Garden Theatre (a forerunner of today's Royal Opera House).
  • Charles Robert Cockerell war ein britischer Architekt und Klassischer Archäologe. Ein Schüler seines Vaters Samuel Pepys Cockerell († 1827), war er 1809 als Assistent Robert Smirkes am Wiederaufbau des Covent Garden-Theaters beschäftigt und studierte von 1810 bis 1817 die antike Architektur in Italien, Griechenland und Kleinasien.
  • Charles Robert Cockerell, né le 27 avril 1788 à Londres, mort en 1863, est un architecte britannique.
  • Era figlio di Samuel Pepys Cockerell, che lo seguì nella sua formazione. In seguito collaborò con Robert Smirke nella ricostruzione del Covent Garden Theatre. Viaggiò molto, tra Grecia, Asia Minore e Italia. Proprio in Grecia seguì gli scavi di Egina e Phigalia in qualità di archeologo.
  • Charles Robert Cockerell foi um arquiteto, arqueólogo e escritor inglês.
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