11 Facts About Theodore Fyfe

David Theodore Fyfe, known simply as Theodore Fyfe, was a Scottish architect.

Theodore Fyfe is widely known as Arthur Evans's architect during the first five excavations at the Palace of Knossos from 1900 to 1904.

Theodore Fyfe was born on 3 November 1875 in the Philippines, second son of James Sloan Fyfe and Jane Charlotte Abercrombie Fyfe.

Theodore Fyfe took classes at the Glasgow School of Art where he was awarded the Haldane Bursary in 1894.

Theodore Fyfe moved to London in 1897 and studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, then at the British School at Athens.

Theodore Fyfe made a fresco copy of the room of the stone bench.

Theodore Fyfe worked on both the graphic reconstruction of the rooms and their preservation.

From 1904 onwards, Theodore Fyfe was working mainly for John James Burnet at the British Museum.

Theodore Fyfe was responsible for the designs of the Shaftesbury Institute, hall and classrooms at Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside, Chester Cathedral, Memorial Chapel at Ashton Hayes and built houses in Cambridge and elsewhere.

Theodore Fyfe revisited Knossos in 1926 and then directed the excavations of a mediaeval church at Glastonbury.

Theodore Fyfe started to travel to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria and Egypt in 1932, to study ancient architectural remains.