George Godwin belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists George Godwin as British architect (1813-1888).
George Godwin was born at Brompton in 1813. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect, editor and journalist.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Gold Medal.
That the work was built in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
George Godwin died in 1888, aged 75. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Royal Gold Medal
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