Contrasts Awn Pugin

Contrasts or a parallel between the architecture of the 15th and 19th century pugin a w n.
Contrasts awn pugin. His mature professional life began in 1836 when he published contrasts which conveyed the argument with which pugin was throughout his life to be identified the link between the quality and character of a society with the calibre of its architecture. Augustus welby northmore pugin 1812 52 architect author and interior designer was among the most important figures in britain s nineteenth century gothic revival. Education christ s hospital newgate taught to draw by his father. Shewing the present decay of taste.
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. 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. Prior to that there had. Awn pugin who was born in london on 1 march 1812 was only 24 when he published contrasts.
Augustus welby northmore pugin 3 followers augustus welby northmore pugin was an english architect designer artist and critic chiefly remembered for his pioneering role in the gothic revival style. 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. Published by leicester university press new york 1969.
His work culminated in the interior design of the palace of westminster. Or a parallel between the noble edifices of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and similar buildings of the present day. Pugin who became a roman catholic in 1835 contended that decline in the arts. 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.
Augustus welby northmore pugin 1812 1852.