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A.W.N. Pugin transformed the Gothic Revival from an architectural
style into an international movement. He decorated and furnished
the Houses of Parliament, creating one of the icons of modern
British identity in the process. His church designs were vastly
influential, and although he was staunchly Roman Catholic, he did
much to set the aesthetic tone of modern Anglicanism. The house he
designed for himself at Ramsgate transformed the Victorian Gothic
villa, demonstrating the ways a thoroughly modern house could draw
integral lessons from the Middle Ages. And although his whole ideal
was woven around a conception of English identity, his influence
was international. Architects in the United States, northern
Europe, and across the British Empire followed his lead, drawing
from elements of his aesthetic and ideals, and in doing so, altered
the look and feel of the nineteenth-century city. Despite the
popularity of Pugin's work, this is the first single-volume
overview of his architecture to be published since 1971. It
summarises much new scholarship and provides a good introduction to
his career as well as new insight for those who might already be
familiar with it.
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