A group of princely states and dukedoms inc Prussia and Bavaria. ibid.
Architecture would become his manifesto to a better future. ibid.
Pugin: a new generation of churches would be in the frontline in the war to save Victorian souls. Simon Schama, A History of Britain: Victoria and Her Sisters, BBC 2000
Sloan [Samuel] liked to talk about the poetry of architecture. Dr Lucy Worsley, Elegance and Decadence 2/3: The Age of the Regency, BBC 2011
As well as Brighton Pavilion, Nash worked on the Regent’s official home in the heart of London – Carlton House. ibid.
Nash was always better at the big picture than the detail. ibid.
Buckingham Palace: Nash’s new obsession. ibid.
The surviving buildings of the Regency had proved to be the greatest legacy of the age. ibid.
The Lloyds Insurance building … all its innards are on the outside. Fred Dibnah’s Monuments s1e4: Places of Work, BBC 2000
Lloyd business: a genuine Robert Adam dining room. ibid.
Ha ha. I’ve been up a few chimneys in me time, you know, but I’ve never been up one with as nice surroundings as this one. Fred Dibnah’s Building of Britain e4: Scottish Style, BBC 2003
Robert Adam’s style was so distinctive they named it after him. ibid.
This is Glamis Castle – the childhood home of the Queen Mother ... One of the best examples of the Scottish Baronial style in existence. It’s a style that was developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. ibid.
By the eighteen century the leading Scottish architect William Adam began to design country houses that broke away radically from the Baronial style. ibid.
It was William’s more famous son Robert who took some elements of this and added a lot of ideas of his own to create a style of architecture that is named after him. Robert Adam had spent three years travelling around Europe drawing and studying the great buildings of the past. He was particularly impressed by the remains of the ancient Roman buildings he saw, and it was this that influenced the Adam style more than anything else. ibid.
The magnificent town hall like this one here at Bolton is a grand example of Victorian civic pride. The success and prosperity that the industrial revolution brought to towns like this left us with some magnificent buildings. The Victorians loved to have everything ornate ... The great age of Victorian splendour. Fred Dibnah’s Building of Britain e6: Victorian Splendour
Pugin had a great passion for gothic architecture of the medieval cathedrals ... He really believed in it with his heart and soul. ibid.
The Houses of Parliament: this was the job that made Pugin’s name. He got it as a result of the old Palace of Westminster burning down in 1834 ... Pugin wanted to build something that would match Westminster Abbey next door. ibid.
Building began in 1837 and the Barry-Pugin partnership was right for the job. Pugin looked after the detail of the design. ibid.
This, Fred, is something of a contrast. This is a genuine Robert Adam dining room. The reason it’s here [Lloyds Building, London] is that ... part of Bowood House in Wiltshire, which belonged to the Marquis of Lansdowne, was being demolished, and this room was due to be destroyed. So Lloyds collectively purchased the room. Fred Dibnah’s World of Steam, Steel and Stone: Preserving Our Past, BBC 2006
What Fred [Dibnah] tells us about Pugin is not just to look at the outside of the building but to look on the inside of the building. And that it is a complete design space. Pugin was having to deal with very new technologies. Dr Suzanne Fagence Cooper, research fellow, Victoria & Albert Museum
How wonderful. Such majesty. Such beauty frozen into stone. See how it rises. So far above our heads. All the way to heaven. The Mystery of Edwin Drood I, Mr Neville of church architecture, BBC 2012
The Clock Tower of Big Ben ... It’s not out of place in the twenty-first century. Richard Taylor, Pugin: God’s Own Architect, BBC 2012
Pugin: he wanted to change the nation through architecture. The Gothic revival he inspired transformed our landscape. ibid.
Contrasts [anti-Georgian] was hugely controversial but it was also a best seller putting the name of the twenty-four-year-old Pugin on people’s lips. ibid.
When he was just six years old his parents took him to a building that would inspire so much of his later work – Lincoln Cathedral, one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in the whole country. ibid.
Pugin’s second great book: The True Principles of Pointed Architecture. ibid.
Palace of Westminster ... The Gothic details – veins that catch the light, carved stonework, and the spires are undoubtedly Pugin’s touches. And Pugin was to have an even greater influence on the interior design. ibid.
While Barry received nearly £25,000 for his work, Pugin was paid a paltry £800. ibid.
When we build, let us think that we build for ever. John Ruskin, Seven Lamps of architecture 1849
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. John Ruskin
Form follows function. Louis Henry Sullivan
Architecture should be at the head of the arts, not at the foot of the professions. Reginald Blomfield, English architect
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. Ernest Dimnet, What We Live By 1932
The two great rules for design are there: 1) that there should be no futures about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction or propriety; 2) that all ornament should consist of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time. Augustus Welby Pugin, True Principles, 1841
A man who remains any length of time in a modern Gothic room, and escapes without being wounded by some of its minutiae, may consider himself extremely fortunate. ibid.
Nothing can be more dangerous than looking at prints of buildings, and trying to imitate bits of them. These architectural books are as bad as the Scriptures in the hands of the Protestant. Augustus Welby Pugin
Yet notwithstanding the palpable impracticability of adapting Greek temples to our climate, habits and religion, we see the attempt and failure continuously made and repeated. Augustus Welby Pugin
There’s all this technical building shit you have to know to be an architect. Penn & Teller, Bullshit! S4e5: Ground Zero, Showtime 2006
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. Philip Johnson, cited New York Times 27th December 1964
There is an altogether earlier Gothic world, a sacred world of great cathedrals and churches, built in the architectural style we call Medieval Gothic. Janina Ramirez, Architects of the Divine: The First Gothic Age, BBC 2014
Brilliant engineering in stone that used pointed arches rather than round ones, intricate tracery and huge stained-glass windows. ibid.
The perpendicular style would put the emphasis on clean vertical lines. ibid.
Eventually, classicism would win out, dominating English culture for three hundred years. ibid.
Manueline Gothic – that incredible flourishing of Portuguese architecture that really peaks around the beginning of the 16th century. Alastair Sooke & Janina Ramirez: Lisbon: An Art Lovers’ Guide s2e1
The humble tent is not only the first building that humans created, it's evolved into some of the most sophisticated, futuristic and high-tech buildings on Earth. The Culture Show: Tents – The Beginning of Architecture, BBC 2014
All architecture began with a tent. ibid.
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building hath three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight. Henry Wotton, Elements of Architecture, 1624
Brutalism: an offensive din to many ears but concrete poetry to mine. Jonathan Meades, Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness I: Concrete Poetry ***** BBC 2014
Worthwhile architecture is ahead of public taste. It may take decades for the public to appreciate the buildings of architects who were derided in their lifetime. ibid.
It’s not a matter of style but of mood ... Why should buildings be friendly? ibid.