Finally, the construction is directly carried out by a family member aided by local labor and there is one technical assistant (typically an architect or a civil engineer) per each 10 family group.
Famed for its proto-brutalist facade and spatial ambiguities, and for exciting morbid thoughts from poets and novelists throughout the 20th century, the building distills qualities that have elevated Hawksmoor, known mainly by the Victorians as an assistant to Christopher Wren, to his modern-day status as a cultish demigod an architect's architect and an enigmatic weaver of literary spells.