The Magazine Antiques, February 1st, 2006
The two great rules for design are these: 1st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these 2 rules is the cause of all bad architecture of the present time. A. W. N. Pugin, The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture, 1841
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, the foremost champion of the Gothic revival, was born in 1812 to a French Catholic emigre, Augustus Charles Pugin, and an English Pro...
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