Matthew Digby Wyatt is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Matthew Digby Wyatt as British architect and art historian (1820–1877).
Matthew Digby Wyatt was born at Devizes in 1820. 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, art historian and university teacher.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Royal Gold Medal and Knight Bachelor.
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.
Matthew Digby Wyatt died in 1877, aged 57. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Royal Gold Medal
- Knight Bachelor
