{{Short description|Welsh architectural critic and town planner (1884-1973)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Arthur Trystan Edwards''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRIBA|FRTPI|FRGS}} (10 November 1884 – 30 January 1973) was a Welsh architectural critic, town planner and amateur cartographer. He was a noted critic of the garden city movement.<ref name="Crouch2002">{{cite book|author=Christopher Crouch|title=Design Culture in Liverpool, 1880–1914: The Origins of the Liverpool School of Architecture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=35ovbqnVXk0C&pg=PA174|year=2002|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-894-2|pages=174–}}</ref>
Born in Merthyr Tydfil, he was educated at Clifton College, Bristol,<ref>"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. ref no 5434: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948</ref> and Hertford College, Oxford. He studied under the architect Sir Reginald Blomfield as an articled pupil<ref name="Grove">{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T024973|url-access=subscription |title=Edwards, (Arthur) Trystan|first=J. M.|last=Richards|work=Grove Art Online|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=9 January 2015}}</ref> from 1907<ref name="DWB">{{cite DWB|id=s6-EDWA-TRY-1884|first=Raymond Wallis|last=Evans|title=Edwards, Arthur Trystan|access-date=9 January 2015}}</ref> and was enrolled at the Liverpool School of Architecture's department of civic design from 1911 to 1913.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=31062|title=Edwards, (Arthur) Trystan (1884–1973)|first=Gontran|last=Goulden|first2=Andrew|last2=Saint|year=2004}}</ref> In 1913 he returned to London and worked for the firm of Richardson and Gill; during this period his first architectural criticism was published in the ''Architects' and Builders' Journal''.<ref name="ODNB"/> He served in the Royal Navy from 1915 to 1918 and continued his involvement with the Navy into peacetime, serving for twelve years in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.<ref name="ODNB"/>
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.<ref name="ODNB"/> John Betjeman noted that the latter work was "the first book to draw attention after the Great War to Regency architecture and to deplore the destruction of Nash's Regent Street."<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Betjeman|year=1986|title=Ghastly Good Taste|url=https://archive.org/details/ghastlygoodtaste00betj|url-access=registration|series=National Trust Classics|location=London|publisher=Century|page=xxi|isbn=9780712694629 }}</ref> In 1933 Edwards founded the Hundred New Towns Association, which was ultimately unsuccessful in its aims.<ref name="Grove"/> In 1953 he published ''A New Map of the World'', in which he proposed his "homalographic" projection.<ref name="ODNB"/>
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==External links== * {{Who's Who|type=was|id=U154155|title=Edwards, (Arthur) Trystan|access-date=9 January 2015}} * [https://biography.wales/article/s6-EDWA-TRY-1884 Trystan Edwards], Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
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