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William Butterfield Book
William Butterfield has taken a central place in every history of nineteenth-century architecture; and rightly, for he was the pioneer of the original High Victorian phase of the Gothic Revival, and the first Victorian architect to experiment with constructional color. This is the first biography of Butterfield and thus meets a major need. It seeks, through a combined discussion of Butterfield's personality, his style, and the social situation in which he worked, to reach a new understanding not merely of Butterfield but of the whole significance of High Victorian architecture. The author defines his approach as follows: "I have...relegated the descriptive chronological surveys which normally form the core of such a book to the second part, for two reasons. The first is that … read more...
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