Forger's Progress
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- ISBN 9781742233789
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 154 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2014
- Publisher: UNSW Press
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The incredible fall, rise and demise of Francis Greenway, Australia’s first government architect.
A forger and convicted felon, Francis Greenway was transported to Sydney in 1814. Only a decade later, his dreams of a ‘city superior in architectural beauty to London’ began to be realised as he designed Hyde Park Barracks, St James’ Church, the Supreme Court, St Luke’s Church in Liverpool and the Windsor courthouse.
In this first biography of Greenway since 1953 award-winning author Alasdair McGregor scrutinises the character and creative output of a man beset by contradictions and demons.
He profiles Greenway’s landmark buildings, his complex and fraught relationship with Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and his thwarted ambitions and self-destruction.
A forger and convicted felon, Francis Greenway was transported to Sydney in 1814. Only a decade later, his dreams of a ‘city superior in architectural beauty to London’ began to be realised as he designed Hyde Park Barracks, St James’ Church, the Supreme Court, St Luke’s Church in Liverpool and the Windsor courthouse.
In this first biography of Greenway since 1953 award-winning author Alasdair McGregor scrutinises the character and creative output of a man beset by contradictions and demons.
He profiles Greenway’s landmark buildings, his complex and fraught relationship with Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and his thwarted ambitions and self-destruction.
Alasdair McGregor is a writer and painter based in Sydney. His book Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin won the National Biography Award in 2011.
