Description
| Product ID: | 9780140280999 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | God's Architect |
| Subtitle: | Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain |
| Authors: | Author: Rosemary Hill |
| Page Count: | 656 |
| Subjects: | Individual architects and architectural firms, Individual architects & architectural firms, Biography: general, Biography: general, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the dramatic in architectural history. This book draws on letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40. Pugin 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 the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-08-07 |
