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The Architecture of Wren
by Kerry Downes
England's most famous architect was already well established both in the sciences and in architecture when in 1669 Charles II appointed him Surveyor of the King's Works. During almost forty years of office he designed the new Hampton Court, Chelsea adn Greenwhich Hospitals and uncompleted palaces at Winchester and Kensington, as well as the great Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. But it was the Great Fire of London of 1666 that gave him his biggest - and unique - opportunity, leading the design of the new St Paul's Cathedral, of which he lived to see the completion, and about fifty London churches.
Drawing upon many years of study of the period and long consideration of the surviving buildings, Kerry Downes aims in this book to re-affirm Wren's artistic genius and to reassess the range and quality of his architectural work. He puts Wren's career in biographical context and then, through scrutiny of the buildings in photographs, plans and descriptions, gradually builds up a picture of the character of Wren's architecture, his artistic principles and his working methods, as well as influences which shaped and conditioned them. |
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