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Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852) was one of Britain’s greatest architects, and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of a French draftsman, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted, and widowed. Nineteen years later he died, insane and disillusioned, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture in works as revered as the House of Lords and the clock tower at Westminster, known as Big Ben.
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God’s Architect is the first modern biography of this extraordinary figure. Rosemary Hill draws upon thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to re-create Pugin’s life and work as architect, propagandist, and Gothic designer, as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years, and his sudden death at 40. It is the work of an exceptional historian and biographer.
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| Cytat Diabeł jest optymistą, o ile sądzi, że można ludzi uczynić gorszymi. Karl Kraus (1874-1936) Dla sokoła las niestraszny. Stanisław Brzozowski Fiat iustitia, ruat coelum - sprawiedliwości musi się stać zadość, choćby niebo miało runąć. Fides sine operibus mortua est - wiara bez uczynków jest martwa. Dla miernot geniusz jest czymś niewybaczalnym. Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915) |