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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. gt;God's Architect is the first full modern biography of this extraordinar
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- Author
- ROSEMARY HILL, Rosemary Hill
- Publisher
- Allen Lane, 2007.
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780713994995
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Art
- Rating
- 4.15 / 5 (29 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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