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- RAH_Livett abstract "Richard Alfred Hardwick Livett (1898–1959), known as R.A.H. Livett, was an architect and pioneer of modernist social housing.Livett was born at 59 Sistova Road, Balham, London in early 1898, the only son of undertaker and valuer Harry Clayton Livett and his wife Ada Hardwick who had married in Edmonton in 1893. He trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London before working for a number of private firms. In June 1928 he married Violet L V Bennett in Barnet, London.Around 1930 he moved to Manchester as Deputy Housing Director to Leonard Heywood. Here he designed the initial part of Wythenshawe, the Dewsbury Estate and Manchester's first major post-war housing block, the modernist Kennet House in Cheetham (1933-5). Since demolished, the flat roofed block was nicknamed the 'ocean liner'. It consisted of of 181 flats and was built at a cost of £83,000.In February 1934 he began in post as Housing Director for Leeds on a salary of £770 rising to £1000. His appointment may have been assisted by Revd Charles Jenkinson who noted “When we obtained Mr Livett’s services we struck oil”. Jenkinson (1887–1949), was Leeds’ innovative chairman of the Housing Committee from 1933 to 1936. Both were keen to provide housing for the working classes and travelled Europe to source examples.In 1934 he designed the Quarry Hill Estate, (demolished 1978) modelled on the Karl Marx Hof in Vienna. This major estate built at a cost of over £500,000 consisted of six to eight storey blocks housing 938 flats over 29 acres. Like the European examples it contained communal open ground and amenities including a nursery, shops and day centre. It was built using the French Mopin concrete building method modelled on the Cite de la Muette at Drancy. His flats had lifts and utilised the Garchey sink-based waste disposal system. His department often used innovative forms of concrete construction, some of which were invented and patented by Livett.In 1936 he appointed George Clark Robb (1903–80), from Edinburgh Council, as his Senior Architectural Assistant. Robb designed housing, including Shaftesbury House (1936), a hostel for over 300 men and 100 women in Beeston, now remodelled by Citu as the Green House. Another architect was C W Brown who designed the Bronte House women's hostel.Levitt was also responsible for the Gipton Estate (1934-5) containing almost 3500 dwellings. He also designed the Halton Moor Estate, more traditional council housing, in February 1938. Other housing developments completed before the war include the Sandford House Estate and Sweet Street, a development of 366 flats. March Lane. a development of over 11 acres was suspended on the outbreak of war.After the war in January 1948 Livett was appointed Leeds’ City Architect. He remodelled York Road Library (1949) alongside the Civic Theatre (1949). In 1953 he designed Skelton Grange Power Station and the following year the Central Ambulance Station in Leeds.He designed several schools including Halton Moor Primary School (1948), Parklands / Seacroft Primary School (1950) and Allerton Grange Secondary Modern School in Talbot Avenue (1955). Towards the end of his career he designed the College of Technology, Art and Commerce (1956) and the Temple Moore Grammar School (1957) in conjunction with Yorke, Rosenburg & Mardall.In 1954 work began on the Saxton Gardens development with a slab block modelled on Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles. The development contained 448 flats in blocks of five to ten storeys. Despite a view that many of Leeds citizens favoured houses over flats Livett 'insisted that the multi-storey block was the only way forward if the cities serious housing policies were to be met' By the late 1950's Livett was designing 10 storey point blocks at Clayton Court (1958).He was appointed OBE and died in Leeds on 20 September 1959 aged 61. His acting replacement was PB Haswell and thereafter J.R. Sheridan-Shedden was appointed City Architect in 1959.".
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- RAH_Livett comment "Richard Alfred Hardwick Livett (1898–1959), known as R.A.H. Livett, was an architect and pioneer of modernist social housing.Livett was born at 59 Sistova Road, Balham, London in early 1898, the only son of undertaker and valuer Harry Clayton Livett and his wife Ada Hardwick who had married in Edmonton in 1893. He trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London before working for a number of private firms.".
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