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How American artist Charles J. Connick’s poetically reimagined Medieval stained glass

A new book shows how Connick harnessed the ancient medium as ‘a potent means of contemporary visual expression’

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Taking a close look at classical architecture as a ‘living system’

Edward McParland's recent, wide-ranging book takes an idiosyncratic approach to classicism, examining its complexities and expressive forms

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From pews to power stations: a history of interwar British architecture that some feared might not be published

Gavin Stamp’s final book offers a fitting memorial to the architectural historian and Private Eye columnist

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Ghosts of America’s ‘Street of Dreams’: a comprehensive book brings the history of New York’s Fifth Avenue to life

Established in the early 1800s, the street was once home to the city’s grandest houses, but many were soon replaced by towering apartment buildings, shops and hotels. A comprehensive book brings this history to life

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Empress Eugénie’s English ‘palace’ is brought to life in new book

A detailed examination of Farnborough Hill house and its remarkable contents

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England’s late-Georgian churches—long dismissed as 'mere preaching boxes'—are reappraised in new book

Built for a booming population, their architecture has been unfairly maligned, argues this survey

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Book offers overdue estimation of Decimus Burton, an architect of Classical class

The acclaimed 19th-century architect's structures were once described insipidly as having “gentlemanly reticence”

Pew! Sussex church may scrap plans to remove historic seating

Moves by parishes to replace pews with chairs for “flexibility” anger traditionalists

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A lifelong dedication to Gothic architecture: Peter Howell on A.W.N. Pugin

The final instalment in the collected letters of a revivalist pioneer

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When scholarship married the imagination: Peter Howell on Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

The French architect is the subject of two excellent new books

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Book Review: The arch of time

From its invention by the Romans, the monumental arch has been a feature of the built environment ever since