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Author(s):	Owen Hopkins

Date:	2017	Format:	MOBI	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1780235151
Pages:	1	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Nicholas Hawksmoor (16621736) is considered one of Britains greatest architects. He was involved in the grandest architectural projects of his age and today is best known for his London churches  six idiosyncratic edifices of white Portland stone that remain standing today, proud and tall in the otherwise radically changed cityscape. Until comparatively recently, however, Hawksmoor was thought to be, at best, a second-rate talent: merely Sir Christopher Wrens slightly odd apprentice, or the practically minded assistant to Sir John Vanbrugh. This book brings to life the dramatic story of Hawksmoors resurrection from the margins of history.
Charting Hawksmoors career and the decline of his reputation, Owen Hopkins offers fresh interpretations of many of his famous works  notably his three East End churches  and shows how over their history Hawksmoors buildings have been ignored, abused, altered, recovered and celebrated. Hopkins also charts how, as Hawksmoor returned to prominence during the twentieth century, his work caught the eye of observers as diverse as T. S. Eliot, James Stirling, Robert Venturi and, most famously, Peter Ackroyd, whose novel Hawksmoor (1985) popularized 12 the mythical association of his work with the occult. Meanwhile, passionate campaigns were mounted to save and restore Hawksmoors churches, reflecting the strange hold his architecture can have over observers. There is surely no other body of work in British architectural history with the same capacity to intrigue and inspire, perplex and provoke as Hawksmoors has done for nearly three centuries.

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