This is an entertaining account of the personal and professional rivalry between two outstanding 19th-century architects - Decimus Burton, rich and genteel, society figure, designer and prime member of the Athenaeum, the leading exponent of the classical style of architecture, and the fiercely energetic Augustus Pugin, a fervent advocate of the neo-gothic. Their building, as their lifestyles and beliefs, could hardly have been more different, and they carried controversy and argument with them in a way not at all unfamiliar in today's architectural climate.
- ISBN10 0304315613
- ISBN13 9780304315611
- Publish Date 3 May 1990
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 17 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
- Imprint Cassell Illustrated
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English