Summary
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic England by Rosemary Hill (Penguin, 30) SIMON BRADLEY
THERE is one design by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin which everyone knows: the tower of Big Ben. He drew its unmistakable outlines in 1851 at the request of Sir Charles Barry, chief architect of the Houses of Parliament, for whom Pugin had long supplied designs for details and furnishings.See the full content of this document
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Architect of an Old-New England
The neo-medieval mood inside our extraordinary legislature is, in fact, chiefly due to the junior architect, though press reports at the time scarcely mention him. Seven months after the clock-towe...
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