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Pugin

NOUN
  1. English architect who played a prominent role in the 19th century revival of Gothic architecture (1812-1852)

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  • Perhaps something new and different, yet traditional, will spring from its roots, like Goodhue's Gothic sprung from the earlier work of Pugint, Scot and Bodley, or how Comper's unified eclecticism came from everything he saw, but we have to start somewhere, and there is still so much to learn, in terms of design and craftsmanship. The Dangers of Architectural Positivism
  • It completely lacks the social dimension that Pugin and Disraeli both intended.
  • In the 19th century Augustus Pugin, co-architect of the Houses of Parliament, declared gothic to be a morally superior style. British architecture: from Georgian to the present day
  • The chromolithographed tile shown above the bread plate was based on a design for Pugin's Floriated Ornament.
  • This eagerly awaited study provides a complete record of Pugin's extraordinary achievements in stained glass design and manufacture. The Stained Glass of Gothic Revivalist AWN Pugin
  • Much of the detail, interior and exterior, all the way down to doorknobs and inkstands, was designed by Pugin, who prepared detailed drawings by the thousand.
  • The stove itself was designed by John Hardman, another of Pugin's frequent collaborators.
  • The decoration was designed by the Gothic Revivalist Pugin, author of Contrasts: or a Parallel between the Noble Edifices of the Middle Ages and Corresponding Buildings of the Modern Day; shewing The Present Decay of Taste.
  • His proposals, which were all executed by Holland and Sons, who were awarded the contract, employ Puginian motifs in a heavily ornamental way, designed to be executed in parcel-gilt walnut.
  • As we delight in Butterfield and Waterhouse, Pugin and Millais, Burne-Jones and Morris, are we ignoring some obscure subtlety in Lasdun, Seifert, Spence, Foster and Rogers? They saved our Victorian cities. Now they are demolishing my prejudices
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