Mark Girouard
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Dr Mark Girouard MA, PhD, DipArch, FSA (born 1931) is a British architectural writer, an authority on the country house, leading architectural historian, and biographer of James Stirling
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, London
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from about 1958, firstly as its Architectural Writer, and then from 1964 as its Architectural Editor, until 1967. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art
from 1975 to 1976. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
in 1987. He has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation
.
His Life in the English Country House won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for 1978, and the WH Smith Literary Award
in 1979.
James Stirling (architect)
Sir James Frazer Stirling FRIBA was a British architect. He is considered to be among the most important and influential British architects of the second half of the 20th century...
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Family life
Girouard is married to the artist Dorothy Girouard, and has a daughter. They live in Notting Hill GateNotting Hill Gate
Notting Hill Gate is one of the main thoroughfares of Notting Hill, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically the street was a location for toll gates, from which it derives its modern name.- Location :...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
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Career
Girouard worked for Country Life magazineCountry Life (magazine)
Country Life is a British weekly magazine, based in London at 110 Southwark Street, and owned by IPC Media, a Time Warner subsidiary.- Topics :The magazine covers the pleasures and joys of rural life, as well as the concerns of rural people...
from about 1958, firstly as its Architectural Writer, and then from 1964 as its Architectural Editor, until 1967. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art
Slade Professor of Fine Art
The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and London.-History:The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collector and philanthropist Felix Slade, with studentships also created in the University of...
from 1975 to 1976. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Society of Antiquaries of London
The Society of Antiquaries of London is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London , and is...
in 1987. He has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation
The Architecture Foundation
The Architecture Foundation was Britain's first independent architecture centre. Established in 1991, it aims to promote contemporary architecture.The Architecture Foundation has organised public exhibitions, design initiatives, competitions and debates....
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His Life in the English Country House won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for 1978, and the WH Smith Literary Award
WH Smith Literary Award
The WH Smith Literary Award was an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith. Its founding aim was stated to be to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the British Commonwealth"; originally open to all residents of the UK, the Commonwealth and the Republic...
in 1979.
Books
- Montacute HouseMontacute HouseMontacute House is a late Elizabethan country house situated in the South Somerset village of Montacute. This house is a textbook example of English architecture during a period that was moving from the medieval Gothic to the Renaissance Classical; this has resulted in Montacute being regarded as...
, Somerset (1964) - Robert SmythsonRobert SmythsonRobert Smythson was an English architect. Smythson designed a number of notable houses during the Elizabethan era. Little is known about his birth and upbringing—his first mention in historical records comes in 1556, when he was stonemason for the house at Longleat, built by Sir John Thynne...
and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era (1966) - Victorian Pubs (1975)
- Hardwick HallHardwick HallHardwick Hall , in Derbyshire, is one of the most significant Elizabethan country houses in England. In common with its architect Robert Smythson's other works at both Longleat House and Wollaton Hall, Hardwick Hall is one of the earliest examples of the English interpretation of the Renaissance...
(1976) - Sweetness and Light: The "Queen Anne" Movement, 1860-1900 (1977)
- Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History (1978)
- Historic Houses of Britain (1979)
- The Victorian Country House (1979)
- Alfred WaterhouseAlfred WaterhouseAlfred Waterhouse was a British architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture. He is perhaps best known for his design for the Natural History Museum in London, and Manchester Town Hall, although he also built a wide variety of other buildings throughout the...
and the Natural History Museum (1981) - The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman (1981)
- Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House (1983)
- Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History (1985)
- A Country House Companion (1987) editor
- The English Town: A History of Urban Life (1990)
- Town and Country (1992)
- Windsor: The Most Romantic Castle (1993)
- Big Jim: The Life and Work of James Stirling (1998) Chatto & Windus, ISBN 9780701162474.
- A Hundred Years at Waddesdon (1998), ISBN 9780952780922.
- Life in the French Country House (2000)
- Rushton Triangular Lodge (2004)
- Elizabethan Architecture: Its Rise and Fall, 1540–1640 (2009), ISBN 9780300093865.