Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel
- Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel
Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel (1887-1959) was an English architect and writer, also a musician.
Life
He was educated at Eton College [ [http://www.alpineeagle.co.uk/Restorations/Historica/Historica.html Alpine Eagle - Bill Borchert Larson ] ] , and read music at Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked shortly for Sir Charles Nicholson, and then set up his own architectural practice. He is known for his church projects. [http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/goodhart_rendel.pdf]
He was Oxford's Slade Professor of Fine Art, from 1933 to 1936. [ [http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/people/architects/harry_stuart_goodhartrendel Exploring Surrey's Past - Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel ] ] .His 1934 lectures on Victorian architecture were considered important, as part of the informed revival, by Nicholas Pevsner [Miles Taylor, Michael Wolff, "The Victorians Since 1901: Histories, Representations and Revisions" (2004), p. 128.] .
He was awarded the CBE in 1955.
Works
*"Nicholas Hawksmoor" (1924)
*"Vitruvian Nights" (1932)
*"Fine Art" (1934)
*"Hatchlands, Surrey" (1937)
*"Architecture in a Changing World" (1938)
*"How Architecture is Made" (1947)
*"English Architecture Since the Regency" (1953)
Family
His father was the Cambridge academic Harry Chester Goodhart (1858-1895). His maternal grandfather was Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, from whom he inherited a substantial estate.
Reference
*Alan Powers (editor), "H. S. Goodhart-Rendel 1887-1959"
Notes
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