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Article: Architecture, Landscape and Liberty: Richard Payne Knight and the Picturesque.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 1997
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Built by Knight from his own designs in 1772-78, Downtown Castle is one of the most frequently described, yet least visited, of major English houses. With Strawberry Hill, it is the first deliberately asymmetrical house and thus the father of the 'organic' plan from Nash to Wright. Knight was, indeed, hailed by Christopher Hussey as 'a Regency prophet of modernism', and by Pevsner, in The Architectural Review, as anticipating the 'Picturesque' post-war urban planning encapsulated in Gordon Cullen's 'Townscape' drawings.
Ballantyne's brilliant study, which should be read by all students of the Enlightenment, interprets Knight not in the context of 1950s modernism but ...
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