GAVIN STAMP is an architectural historian and writer, who for many years was chairman of the Twentieth Century Society. His other books include: Lost Victorian Britain, Britain's Lost Cities andEdwin Lutyens Country Houses (all published by Aurum), as well as: The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme and The Changing Metropolis: Earliest Photographs of London 1839 - 1879.
"No book this year has provided me with such interest and visual
delight as Gavin Stamp's superb Gothic for the Steam Age... Stamp
is the finest architectural historian of the Victorian era and his
evocation of Scott - architect and human being - is a masterpiece,
accompanied by superb illustrations."
“Gavin Stamp’s beautifully illustrated book begins to fill a huge
gap€¦ What is needed now is a comprehensive life and work of Scott,
whose funeral in Westminster Abbey was the grandest ever accorded
to any British architect. Steeped in the works of the Scott
dynasty, Stamp possesses the sensitivity, perspicacity,
intelligence and sound judgements to make him the ideal candidate
to write it.”
"This book offers a brilliant overview of Scott's achievements. The
pictures, accompanied by discursive captions, are beautifully
chosen. Dr Stamp writes about his subject succinctly with
authority, verve and clarity. ...he does something that lifts this
book far above the ordinary as a work of architectural history. The
result is that Dr Stamp has not just informed me of the fact that
Scott was a great architect; he has fully persuaded me."
"This excellent book gives us a Scott for our age, as Scott gave us
Gothic for the Steam Age. Scott lacks a full scale biography but,
as author Gavin Stamp says, the sheer scale of his work, embracing
some 800 buildings and designs, makes this an impossible task; in
any case we have Scott’s autobiography Personal and Professional
Recollections. What Stamp gives us instead is much more
interesting...""This book offers a brilliant overview of Scott's
achievements. The pictures, accompanied by discursive captions, are
beautifully chosen. Dr Stamp writes about his subject succinctly
with authority, verve and clarity. ...he does something that lifts
this book far above the ordinary as a work of architectural
history. The result is that Dr Stamp has not just informed me of
the fact that Scott was a great architect; he has fully persuaded
me." “Gavin Stamp’s beautifully illustrated book begins to
fill a huge gap… What is needed now is a comprehensive life and
work of Scott, whose funeral in Westminster Abbey was the grandest
ever accorded to any British architect. Steeped in the works of the
Scott dynasty, Stamp possesses the sensitivity, perspicacity,
intelligence and sound judgements to make him the ideal candidate
to write it.”"No book this year has provided me with such interest
and visual delight as Gavin Stamp's superb Gothic for the Steam
Age... Stamp is the finest architectural historian of the Victorian
era and his evocation of Scott - architect and human being - is a
masterpiece, accompanied by superb illustrations."
“In the context of Stamp’s work with the Victorian Society and his
vocal presence as a campaigner for Britain’s nineteenth-century
architecture, this book compels readers to act as well as to
admire. Its well-illustrated essay demonstrates the remarkable
extent to which Scott and Victorian architecture were practically
synonymous. With its substantial essay and gazetteer, Gothic for
the Steam Age may point to new routes for further research on this
most prolific and influential of architects.”
*Burlington Magazine*
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