From the Shadows
From the Shadows
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Summary
Charting Hawksmoor’s 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 Hawksmoor’s buildings have been ignored, abused, altered, recovered and celebrated.
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From the Shadows by Owen Hopkins
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.
'A valuable new chart of Hawksmoor's potent and mysterious creationsIts originality lies in the way Owen Hopkins traces the influence of the great Baroque architect on our present moment. Written with the verve of an enthusiast and the rigour of a scholar.' - Iain Sinclair, author of London Orbital, Lights Out for the Territory, American Smoke and Lud Heat.
Owen Hopkins is a writer, historian and Architecture Programme Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts. He is the author of Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon (2012) and Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide (2014) and regularly leads a variety of walking tours of London architecture.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781780235158 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780235151 |
| Title | From the Shadows |
| Author | Owen Hopkins |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2015-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |