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Article: Hawksmoor redivivus: Hawksmoor's genius, barely recognised until the 20th century, is triumphantly confirmed by the newly completed restoration of St George, Bloomsbury.(ARCHITECTURE)(Nicholas Hawksmoor)
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- July 1, 2008
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Architects reputations are fragile things. Gilbert Scott, for instance, knighted for his great works, became a figure of fun within 50 years of his death. And what will the future make of those much-lauded architectural peers of our own time, the egregious Lords Foster of Thames Bank and Rogers of Riverside? We can only speculate. But few reputations have oscillated so dramatically as that of Nicholas Hawksmoor. Beginning as the 'clerk' and trusted assistant to Sir Christopher Wren, his works were condemned for their 'fancy' by the pedantic Palladians, and by the 19th century, when some of his buildings were maltreated, he was almost ...
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