From the Shadows - The Architecture and Afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor

Charting Hawksmoor's career and the decline of his reputation, Owen Hopkins offers fresh interpretations of many of his famous works - notably his three East End churches - and shows how over their history Hawksmoor's buildings have been ignored, abused, altered, recovered and celebrated.

About the author

Owen Hopkins is a writer, historian and Architecture Programme Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts. He is the author of Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon (2012) and Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide (2014) and regularly leads a variety of walking tours of London architecture.

Summary

Charting Hawksmoor’s career and the decline of his reputation, Owen Hopkins offers fresh interpretations of many of his famous works – notably his three East End churches – and shows how over their history Hawksmoor’s buildings have been ignored, abused, altered, recovered and celebrated.

Product details

• Authors: Hopkins, Owen Hopkins, Hopkins Owen
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781780235158
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-515-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, History of Architecture, Individual architects and architectural firms