GODS ARCHITECT (PB)

Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Before he was 30 he had designed 22 churches, three cathedrals, half a dozen extraordinary houses and a Cistercian monastery. This biography draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40.