Pugin

Never knew how much work he did in so little time.

Could have won a Leger as well, ho ho! Tarby

I've cobbled together 900 words of utter shite about the man and have to do another 300. I'm going to have to leave it until Saturday as it's hurting my head.

What have you got so far?

I remember a bloke I was at school with who, every time he mentioned Guy De Maupassant, referred to his syphilis. Not really relevant in a critique of Boule De Suif - you could have a tangential link but it offers nothing to the discussion on style indirect libre

I meant to ask, is it still compulsory to spend time at summer school with the OU Chips?

Bert I'm writing about how Pugin dissented from tradition with his design, writings and architecture. So far I've wrote about the Palace of Westminster, Contrasts & True Principles.

MG - No summer school not compulsory and there isn't one on my course.

chips wrote:Bert I'm writing about how Pugin dissented from tradition with his design, writings and architecture. So far I've wrote about the Palace of Westminster, Contrasts & True Principles.

MG - No summer school not compulsory and there isn't one on my course.

Im guessing, but did his inspiration with gothic be a reaction to the impact of industrialisation.

NO he went gothic as he was a convert to Catholicism and saw that type of building as the true way of the church, or some shit

in my defence, the Arts and Crafts movement turned to the idea of Merrie England and the gothic because of the horrors of the Industrial Revolution

chips wrote:NO he went gothic as he was a convert to Catholicism and saw that type of building as the true way of the church, or some shit

How does that come into line with "True Principles", then

Fuck me, it appears he died of syphilis...

The thing about British architecture is that it's a huge borrower - London, for example, has a bit of everything in it, twisty roads, Gothic, modern, Norman, I could just keep listing things. It's tiny pockets of architectural history put together in a loose jigsaw. Now take Paris - Haussman rebuilt it, wide boulevards, similar stone throughout, buildings all showing the same proportion. You can spot it a mile off.

Pugin seems to have taken the ability he had, tied it to a bit of religious zealotry and suddenly finds himself topmost in his field and has taken architecture back to a more classical time. You can't discount the effect he had on the Gilbert Scott family either. He was a contemporary of and influence on the grandfather of the architect of this:



How Gothic do you want it?

Scored a 75/100 for my essay!

chips wrote:Scored a 75/100 for my essay!

what grade is that then?

Dunno

Good I think!

chips wrote:Dunno

Good I think!

I would say so too chips , they always give you some room for little improvement

chips wrote:Scored a 75/100 for my essay!

bitofatwat wrote:

chips wrote:Scored a 75/100 for my essay!

what grade is that then?

Its a First if its degree level.

So far my marks have been:

76
60
60
75

hey thats nothing to be ashamed of, far from it.You are doing a very difficult academic subgect.pat yourself on the back.

What was your angle, Chips? If you mentioned the Gilbert Scotts, I want partial credit, some cake or shall we just say "a little bit of sugar", you know what I'm saying...

Bert wrote:What was your angle, Chips? If you mentioned the Gilbert Scotts, I want partial credit, some cake or shall we just say "a little bit of sugar", you know what I'm saying...

Nah, all my own work thanks.

If it gets published and I see any reference...

Where do you stand now in the overall? Four down how many/what to go?

3 more to go to finish the course. I have an continuous score of 38%. Have to submit assignment 7 to pass the course and have a continuous score of at least 40%.

Then another 5 course to complete the degree.

So the back of this bit is broken, then?