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Article: An evangelical architect: a richly illustrated survey of Quinlan Terry's career makes John Martin Robinson wonder why this ardent classicist regards himself as a martyr of modernism when he is such a puritanical modernist himself.(Radical Classicism: The Architecture of Quinlan Terry)(Book review)
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Radical Classicism: The Architecture of Quinlan Terry
DAVID WATKIN
Rizzoli, 35 [pounds sterling]/$60
ISBN 0 8478 2806 9
On reading this book about Quinlan Terry, the words about 'a prophet in his own country' come to mind. Highly esteemed in America, where he was the 2005 winner of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize, classical architecture's highest honour, he has always been regarded at best with quizzical tolerance by a generally hostile English architectural establishment. Some of his best buildings have also been commissioned in the USA, including Merchants Square in Colonial Williamsburg; Highland Park, Texas; Pin Oak, Kentucky; and ...