Rosemary Hill September 16, 2008

Augustus Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects, inventor of the Gothic Revival and revealed as the designer of Big Ben and much of the Houses of Parliament. By the age of 21, he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widowed; before he was 30 he had designed 22 churches and 3 cathedrals; at 40, insane and disillusioned, he was dead. Rosemary Hill’s biography, God’s Architect (Penguin), has been hailed as “outstanding” by Claire Tomalin and “magnificent, sumptuous and intricate” by John Carey. She will be in conversation with the writer and journalist Andrew O’Hagan.

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