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012 VICTORIAN GOTHIC 1830
  • Most successful and Englands major contribution
  • Individualistic
  • Architectural training haphazard
  • Prosperity 1830 70, many buildings constructed
  • Development
  • Gothic revival to 1800
  • Post 1800, gaps despite gothic scholarship
  • 1830s gaps begin to bridge

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HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, LONDON 1836 - 60
  • Barry and Pugin
  • Barry, classical plan, symmetrical
  • Pugin, asymmetrical gothic facade
  • Contradictions
  • Tudor details on a classical body
  • Gave legitimacy and an appeal to the style

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AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE PUGIN
  • Author of Contrasts and The true principles of
    pointed or Christian architecture.
  • Synthesized gothic archaeology, French
    rationalist theory and Roman Catholicism
    (escapism)
  • Only true architecture for England is gothic
  • Only pre-perpendicular was true gothic
  • Radical functionalism
  • Each part assumes necessary plan and volume and
    must be set together in an orderly way. (all
    equal)
  • Puginesque buildings
  • Function to plan, plan to interior volumes,
    interior volumes to external massing. Result is
    picturesque looking buildings.

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HIGH VICTORIAN GOTHIC 1853
  • John Ruskin
  • Main force in survival of historicism
  • Author of Seven lamps of architecture, 1849,
    and The stones of Venice 1851 53
  • Raged against modern age
  • Praised ancient buildings and craftsmen
  • Architectural aesthetic centered on unnecessary
    features of a building.

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  • William Butterfield
  • Church of All Saints 1852
  • Commissioned by reform group
  • Ecclesiological Society Sought to emphasize
    spirituality and provide colorful setting for
    clergy.
  • Constructed of brick for color and texture
  • Influenced by Sienna Cathedral
  • Program squeezed onto small site
  • Steep, vertical proportions
  • Interior composed of dense polychrome
  • Patterns compete
  • Chapel of Keble College 1867 - 83

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  • George Edmund Street
  • St. Pauls American Church, Rome, 1873 76
  • Law Courts
  • Secular High Victorian Gothic
  • Oxford University Museum 1855
  • Deane and Woodward
  • Albert Memorial 1863
  • G.C. Scott

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