Long after his death, Hawksmoor was himself at risk of being razed from history.
WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward
British modernists and postmodernists alike have warmed themselves before Hawksmoor's flinty buildings, with their coarse masses and deceptive volumes.
WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward
One reason for Hawksmoor's current high standing is that his work was for so long held in such inexplicably low regard.
WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward
Mary Woolnoth, one of six London churches designed between 1712 and 1733 by the English Baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (1662-1736), is his most compact masterwork.
WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward
In Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's 1990s serial graphic novel "From Hell, " Jack the Ripper kills women in a ritual pattern based on the geography of Hawksmoor's churches.
WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward
The neighborhood is Spitalfields market, across the road from Christ Church on Fournier Street, the brooding Hawksmoor church where Alexander McQueen once showed us clothes rattling with skeletal bones.
"Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination, " an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts through June 17, charts the ascent of his cultural influence as part of his 350th birthday celebration.
WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward
Wall texts, drawings, photographs and videos, under the supervision of art historian and guest curator Owen Hopkins, trace Hawksmoor's collaborations with Wren and John Vanbrugh, as well as his solo commissions in London and elsewhere in England.
WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward
Another Hawksmoor design, for Christ Church, Spitalfields, may be said to rank higher for the bestial power of its facade and macabre associations. (It was built over a burial pit for plague victims.) But the drama of exterior and interior spaces at St.
WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward
From the chesty thrust of its rusticated facade, to the outward curve of the pediment, to an entablature of three blind square windows crowned by six Corinthian columns (repeated inside) and capped with a pair of squat balustraded turrets, the exterior manifests Hawksmoor's unorthodox interpretation of the classical tradition.
WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward
Famed for its proto-brutalist facade and spatial ambiguities, and for exciting morbid thoughts from poets and novelists throughout the 20th century, the building distills qualities that have elevated Hawksmoor, known mainly by the Victorians as an assistant to Christopher Wren, to his modern-day status as a cultish demigod an architect's architect and an enigmatic weaver of literary spells.
WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward
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