Full Name: Goodhart-Rendel, H. S.
Other Names:
- Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel
Gender: male
Date Born: 1887
Date Died: unknown
Home Country/ies: United Kingdom
Subject Area(s): architecture (object genre) and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Architectural historian. He delivered the Earl Grey lectures, which were later published as Architecture, Engineering and Sculpture. John Newenham Summerson cites Goodhart-Rendel as an example of architectural history “essay writing,” the dominant form of architectural history in England before the influence of continental scholarship. This form was abandoned after the influence of Geoffrey Webb.
Selected Bibliography
English Architecture since the Regency: an Interpretation. London: Constable, 1953; Architecture, Engineering and Sculpture: a Study in the Philosophy of Design. Newcastle upon Tyne: King’s College, s.n., 1947.
Sources
Summerson, John. “Margaret Dickens Whinney, 1894-1975.” Proceedings of the British Academy 68 (1982): 637.