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A new book on an inventive, unjustly underrated, provincial architect is handsome but flawed
In praise of people’s parks
A civilising tradition has been sadly neglected
Beyond the spires
Oxford is full of architectural riches
Rickards remembered
A fine tribute to an industrious architectural eccentric
Restoring the numinous
The products of deeply felt faith and painfully acquired skills
The elephant in the avant-garde
The totalitarian trend in Modernism demands acknowledgement
The lives of Mary Magdalene
A fine book explores her life and afterlife
Unstable foundations
The unsound architecture of the Edwardian Baroque
Appreciating the small and recherché
There is still some unspoiled Surrey country to be enjoyed
A Classical career in an ugly age
The fad-spurning architecture of Hugh Petter
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