Architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and the Category of Historicism

A.W.N. Pugin’s work is frequently mentioned among the central phenomena of historicist architecture of the 19th century. The problem that is usually overlooked is that Pugin’s vision of the world (as it is deduced from his writings) is basically ahistorical. Pugin’s undoubtable influence on architecture makes it necessary to redefine the notion of historicism, used both in history and history of art to describe different, though connected phenomena. The aim of this paper is to formulate the essence of historicism and to discover Pugin’s relations with the methods of dealing with the past used in the 1^st half of the 19^th century.

O.W.N. Pugin, Historicism, Architecture, History, Past

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