William Richard Lethaby

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William Richard Lethaby


Born
in Barnstaple, Devon, England
January 18, 1857

Died
July 17, 1931

Influences


William Richard Lethaby was an English architect and architectural historian whose ideas were highly influential on the late Arts and Crafts and early Modern movements in architecture, and in the fields of conservation and art education.

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Architecture Mysticism and ...

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Mediaeval art, from the pea...

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Writing & Illuminating & Le...

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Architecture, Nature And Magic

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London Before the Conquest

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The Church of Sancta Sophia...

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Cambridge Medieval History:...

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Dress Design: An Account of...

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Londinium Architecture and ...

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Architecture: An Introducti...

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“Portals must have guardians.”
William Richard Lethaby, Architecture Mysticism and Myth

“Behind every style of architecture there is an earlier style, in which the germ of every form is to be found”
William Richard Lethaby, Architecture Mysticism and Myth
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“This four squareness was a talismanic assurance of permanence and stability. The thought that, as the heavens were stable upon the earth, so any building four square with them would be immovable, seems, as we have seen, a natural analogy.”
William Richard Lethaby, Architecture Mysticism and Myth