God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
by Rosemary Hill
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How did architects get to be architects in any given period in history? How were they trained? How did they find their clients and communicate with them? What did society think of them?. Spiro Kostof's The Architect, a collection of essays by historians and architects, explores these and other intriguing questions about the profession of architecture. The first book in more than fifty years to survey the profession from its beginnings in ancient Egypt to the modern day, it is the most show more complete synthesis to date of our knowledge of how the architect's profession developed. Included are a major show lessTags
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I found Pugin rather annoying at first but found him more likeable as time went on. Still it seems amazing to me that someone would convert to Catholicism simply because they liked Gothic architecture and had never heard of the Renaissance.
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- Original publication date
- 2007
- People/Characters
- Augustus Pugin
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- Great Britain
- Epigraph
- Even the loose stones that cover the high-way,
I gave a mortal life, I saw them feel,
Or linked them to some feeling: the great mass
Lay bedded in a quickening soul, and all
That I beheld respi... (show all)red with inward meaning.
William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book III, 11. 125-9 - First words
- Travelling through England on a train, or flying into London, low along the Thames and over the suburbs, the landscape is still, to a great extent, made up of little pitch-roofed houses and gardens. (Introduction)
In the 1820s, when Auguste Pugin ran a drawing school, he liked to amuse his teenaged pupils, and no doubt himself, with stories of his early life, his aristocratic connections and his hair's-breadth escape from the French Re... (show all)volution. (Chapter 1) - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She died in 1909, in St. Edward's, the house Pugin built as a presbytery, at the age of eighty-four, and is buried with him in the vault at St. Augustine's.
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- Art & Design, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 720.92 — Arts & recreation Architecture Architecture History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
- LCC
- NA997 .P9 .H55 — Fine Arts 2599.5-2599.9 Architectural criticism Architecture History
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