Mark Girouard
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Mark Girouard (born 1931) is a British architectural writer, an authority on the country house, leading architecture historian, and biographer of James Stirling.
He worked for many years for Country Life magazine. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art in 1975-6.
His Life in the English Country House won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for 1978[1], and the WH Smith Literary Award in 1979.
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- Montacute House, Somerset (1964)
- Robert Smythson and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era (1966)
- Victorian Pubs (1975)
- Hardwick Hall (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 Waterhouse 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)
- The Tudor and Jacobean Country House: A Building History (1998)
- Life in the French Country House (2000)
- Rushton Triangular Lodge (2004)
- A Hundred Years at Waddesdon
