by NICHOLAS TAYLOR
William Butturfield by Paul Thompson and Thomas Cubitt : Master Builder by Hermione Hobhouse are recently published definitive biographies of these two key figures standing at the opposite poles of Victorian architecture. Cubitt, creator of Belgravia and the modern building industry; Butterfield, the devout churchman. Nicholas Taylor suggests that architectural biographers are still hooked on the Renaissance heresy of the architect as disposer supreme.