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discussed in biography
- In A.W.N. Pugin
…in 1836 when he published Contrasts, which conveyed the argument with which Pugin was throughout his life to be identified, the link between the quality and character of a society with the calibre of its architecture. Pugin, who became a Roman Catholic in 1835, contended that decline in the arts…
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influence on Gothic Revival
- In Western architecture: From the 19th to the early 20th century
In his book Contrasts (1836) he also sought to show that architecture reflects the state of the society by which it is built: the society of the Middle Ages was good; therefore, Gothic architecture was good. In The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture (1841) he first…
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