Key buildings houses of parliament london 1844 nottingham cathedral 1841 st augustine s church ramsgate 1845 alton towers 1834 st john s hospital alton 1841 key texts contrasts 1836 specimens of gothic architecture.
Contrasts awn pugin.
Shewing the present decay of taste.
It was the book that made his name and was the first architectural manifesto.
Accompanied by appropriate text by pugin augustus welby northmore 1812 1852.
Augustus welby northmore pugin 1812 52 architect author and interior designer was among the most important figures in britain s nineteenth century gothic revival.
First published in 1836 contrasts is his most famous work and this revised second edition of 1841 champions medieval architecture by satirically comparing it with debased regency equivalents.
Or a parallel between the noble edifices of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and similar buildings of the present day.
In 1836 pugin published contrasts a polemical book which argued for the revival of the medieval gothic style and also a return to the faith and the social structures of the middle ages.
Or a parallel between the noble edifices of the middle ages and corresponding buildings of the present day.
Pugin who became a roman catholic in 1835 contended that decline in the arts.
Prior to that there had.
Education christ s hospital newgate taught to draw by his father.
Awn pugin who was born in london on 1 march 1812 was only 24 when he published contrasts.
Shewing the present decay of taste.
Published by leicester university press new york 1969.
His work culminated in the interior design of the palace of westminster.
Augustus welby northmore pugin 1812 1852.
Contrasts or a parallel between the architecture of the 15th and 19th century pugin a w n.