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William Butterfield has taken a central place in every history of nineteenth-century architecture; and rightly, for he was the pioneer of the original High Victorian phase of the Gothic Revival, and the first Victorian architect to experiment with constructional color.This is the first biography of Butterfield and thus meets a major need.
10 de jul. de 2023 · William Butterfield, Marble pavement. Plan and side elevation for the floors of the chancel, transepts, and lower vestry of All Saints’ Church, Babbacombe, 1872. RIBA Drawings Collection. Butterfield had pioneered the revival of decorated encaustic tile for paving churches in the 1840s.
8 de sept. de 2023 · William Butterfield was a leading figure in the Gothic Revival movement in the 19th century. All Saints is widely regarded as his masterpiece. Whereas previous Gothic architecture of the period broadly copied medieval buildings, Butterfield took the style into new directions. His use of brick and application of polychromy (decorating in a range ...
10 de mar. de 2017 · William Butterfield. His commission for the Ecclesiological model church in Margaret Street made Butterfield almost immediately one of the major architects of the mid-century. — Paul Thompson (1971)
6 de dic. de 2017 · William Butterfield. Nothing Permitted But What Has Been Foreseen. William Butterfield eschewed the illustrative perspective, preferring instead to develop even his studies as contract drawings that would serve three tasks: as presentations through which a project could be comprehended, as instructions from which his contractors and clients ...
11 de jun. de 2018 · Butterfield, William (1814–1900). One of the most prolific and original English Gothic Revivalists, he was born in London, for a while worked with the Inwoods, and opened his own practice in 1840. From 1842 he was closely involved with the Cambridge Camden (later Ecclesiological) Society, contributing designs to The Ecclesiologist (1842–68 ...
10 ‘The Life and Work of William Butterfield’, Architect, 83 (1910), pp. 129-30 and 145-47 (pp. 145-46). Swinfen Harris refers (p. 145) to Butterfield’s ‘forceful methods as an admirable and voluminous correspondent; he not only wrote long and very scholarly letters, but every word of them had its due place, weight and measure most exactly apportioned’.
