Pugin was one of Britains greatest architects & his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812 the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked bankrupted & widowed. Nineteen years later he died insane & disillusioned having changed the face & the mind of British architecture. Gods Architect" is the first full modern biography of this extraordinary figure. It draws on thousands of unpublished letters & drawings to recreate his life & work as architect propagandist & romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages the bitterness of his last years & his sudden death at 40. It is the debut of a remarkable historian & biographer."