Arthur Trystan Edwards (10 November 1884 – 30 January 1973) was a Welsh architectural critic, town planner and amateur cartographer. He was a noted critic of the

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. Born in

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, he was educated at

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, Bristol, and

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. He studied under the architect Sir

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as an articled pupil from 1907 and was enrolled at the Liverpool School of Architecture's department of civic design from 1911 to 1913. In 1913 he returned to London and worked for the firm of Richardson and

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; during this period his first architectural criticism was published in the '' Architects' and Builders' Journal''. He served in the

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from 1915 to 1918 and continued his involvement with the Navy into peacetime, serving for twelve years in the

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. At the close of World War I Edwards joined the Ministry of Health and resumed his architectural criticism. ''The Things which are Seen: a Revaluation of the Visual Arts'' was published in 1921 and ''Good and Bad Manners in Architecture'', which is considered to be his best work, in 1924.

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noted that the latter work was "the first book to draw attention after the

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and to deplore the destruction of Nash's

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." In 1933 Edwards founded the Hundred New Towns Association, which was ultimately unsuccessful in its aims. In 1953 he published ''A New Map of the World'', in which he proposed his " homalographic" projection.

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Dictionary of Welsh Biography The ''Dictionary of Welsh Biography'' (DWB) (also ''The Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940'' and ''The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1941 to 1970'') is a biographical dictionary of Welsh people who have made a significant contribution to ...

. {{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Trystan People from Merthyr Tydfil People educated at Clifton College Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Liverpool Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society 1884 births 1973 deaths