Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel
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Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel (1887-1959) was an English architect and writer, also a musician.
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[edit] Life
He was educated at Eton College[1], 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.[2]
He was Oxford's Slade Professor of Fine Art, from 1933 to 1936.[3]. His 1934 lectures on Victorian architecture were considered important, as part of the informed revival, by Nicholas Pevsner[4].
He was awarded the CBE in 1955.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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.
[edit] Reference
- Alan Powers (editor), H. S. Goodhart-Rendel 1887-1959
[edit] Notes
- ^ Alpine Eagle - Bill Borchert Larson
- ^ http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/goodhart_rendel.pdf
- ^ Exploring Surrey's Past - Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel
- ^ Miles Taylor, Michael Wolff, The Victorians Since 1901: Histories, Representations and Revisions (2004), p. 128.
