Summary: "A. C. Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. By the time he was twenty-one he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widowed. Nineteen years later he died, insane and disillusioned, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture." "God's Architect is the first modern biography of this figure. It draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as an architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at forty."--BOOK JACKET.