Augustus Pugin

Augustus Pugin ( Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin ) (London on March 1st 1812 - September 14th 1852) British architect is a remained famous for its work on various churches and especially on the Palais of Westminster. He wrote a good number of news on the Architecture, mainly in connection with the Gothic architecture and of decoration.

He was the son of a draftsman French expert of the medieval Architecture , Auguste Charles Pugin, which involved it with the drawing of Gothic buildings . It was the starting point of its vocation, which was to make of him a major representative of the movement neogothic. Pugin was made lawyer of the Gothic architecture, which it considered Christian the style most really . In its entitled book Contrasts , it attacked the influence of the Classicisme, judged " pagan ".

Following the fire of the Palate of Westminster in 1834, Pugin was recruited by Sir Charles Barry to work on the new building of the Parliament, with London. It converts with the Catholicisme, which did not prevent it from continuing to build or restore places of worship Anglicans. Its style, theorized in works such as Truths Principles of Christian Architecture , had a considerable influence at the time.

Others of its work include/understand the interior of the Cathédrale St Chad' S and the Oscott College, both with Birmingham. During its adolescence it designed the pieces of furniture for the Château of Windsor.

Pugin carried out a " court médiévale" with the World Fair of 1851, but suddenly found death after a mental shock.

Pugin is the founder of the concept culturalist in town planning.