The Unromantic Castle and other Essays

An enjoyable collection of essays on British architecture. Essays include The Unromantic Castle; John Thorpe & the Thorpes of Kingscliffe; Inigo Jones: Covent Garden & the Restoration of Saint Paul’s Cathedral; Christopher Wren: Why Architecture; The Penultimate Design for St Paul’s Cathedral; The Classical Country House; Sir John Soane & the Furniture of Death; The Evolution of Soane’s Bank Stock Office in the Bank of England; Charting the Victorian Building World; The London Building World of the 1860s; The Victorian Rebuilding of the City of London 1840-1870; The London Suburban Villa, 1850-1880; The British Contemporaries of Frank Lloyd Wright; Arches of Triumph: Sir Edwin Lutyens’s Design for the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Liverpool; The Case for a Theory of ‘Modern’ Architecture. VG/VG. 288 pages, illustrated occasionally throughout.