Hawksmoor, 2nd Edition

by Kerry Downes

Book Overview

After two decades, this remains the standard work on Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736), a student and collaborator of Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh and one of Britain's outstanding baroque architects. The book covers all of Hawksmoor's surviving buildings-six London churches, All Souls and the Clarendon Building in Oxford, the towers of Westminster Abbey, parts of Castle Howard (including his strange, melancholic, blind Mausoleum) and Blenheim,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262040603
• ISBN13: 9780262040600
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.