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Hawksmoor, Nicholas |
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Hawksmoor, Nicholas (1661-1736)English architect. He was assistant to Christopher Wren in designing various London churches and St Paul's Cathedral, and joint architect of Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace with John Vanbrugh. His genius is displayed in a quirky and uncompromising style incorporating elements from both Gothic and classical sources. After 1712 Hawksmoor completed six of the 50 new churches planned for London under the provisions made by the Fifty New Churches Act of 1711: St Alphege, Greenwich (1712-14); St Anne, Limehouse (1712-24); St George-in-the-East (1714-34); St Mary Woolnoth (1716-27); St George, Bloomsbury (1720-30); and Christ Church, Spitalfields (1714-29). |
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| Soane, Hawksmoor, Loos, Corb, Hejduk or Miralles--each turned the steady path of architecture on its head, never to be the same again. Hawksmoor, a conventional detective facing a highly unconventional case, not only cannot locate Dyer, the tramp-murderer, but at the end of the novel, through supernatural causes, Dyer and Hawksmoor collapse into one another, as if Dyer has become Hawksmoor and vice versa. In Hawksmoor (1985), Chatterton (1987), English Music (1992), and The House of Doctor Dee (1993), a structure of gothic horror undergirds the stories. |
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