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Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank of England, demolishing most of Sir John Soane's earlier building was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".
However, according to the architectural historian Vitruvius, the column was created by the sculptor Callimachus, probably an Athenian, who drew acanthus leaves growing around a votive basket.
Constructed from Norman through to Tudor times, the castle has been described by architectural historian Anthony Emery as " the finest surviving example of a semi-royal palace of the later middle ages, significant for its scale, form and quality of workmanship ".
“ A church is the place, par excellence, of architecture ,” he said in an interview with architectural historian Judith Dupré.
While no pictorial record exists to document what the original structure looked like, architectural historian Rexford Newcomb deduced the design and published a depiction in his 1916 work The Franciscan Mission Architecture of Alta California.
A plan view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano complex ( including the footprint of the " Great Stone Church ") prepared by architectural historian Rexford Newcomb in 1916.
* An interview with architectural historian Jim Draeger about the history of filling stations from Wisconsin Public Television
* Abbott Lowell Cummings ( born 1923 ), noted Yale architectural historian
The first official Keeper of the Register was William J. Murtagh, an architectural historian.
According to the architectural historian Sir John Summerson, " It inaugurates an artistic revolution which is the counterpart of the political revolution in which the Earl was so prominent a leader.
Australian architectural historian John James, who made a detailed study of the cathedral, has estimated that there were about 300 men working on the site at any one time, although it has to be acknowledged that our knowledge of working practices at this time is somewhat limited.
In 2002 Hawksmoor was the subject of an award-winning monograph by the architectural historian Vaughan Hart, which redefined Hawksmoor with new insights and discoveries.
Also working as expert witnesses were the American Holocaust historian Christopher Browning, the German historian Peter Longerich and the Dutch architectural expert Robert Jan van Pelt.
It has a high tower and a famous Norman ( 12th century ) south doorway, stained blue, with seven orders and three shafts, described by the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as ' barbaric and glorious '.
Each database entry includes a representative photograph and a description of the building written by an expert architectural historian.
The influential architectural critic and historian Sigfried Giedion, in his book Space, Time and Architecture ( 1941 ), dismissed Expressionist architecture as a part of the development of functionalism.
Even work by the noted colonial architectural historian Foreman is replete with historical inaccuracies as to ownership and other such non-architectural attributions.
According to architectural historian Henry Russell Hitchcock, Riverton was the first totally planned residential subdivision in America.
" However the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner states that Burges's remodelling was carried out " with all the robust ugliness which that architect liked ".
A number of carved brick chimneys dating from the Tudor period can be seen around the Inner Court, each with a unique design ; all but three of these were purely ornamental, however, and historian R. Allen Brown describes them as a " regrettable " addition to the castle from an architectural perspective.
For Clark then, the true purpose of Chiswick Villa was as a symbolic Royal Palace which awaited the return of the ' Kings over the water ' who were destined to rule by ‘ Divine Right ’, an interpretation supported by architectural historian Giles Worsley and others.
The architectural historian Richard Hewlings has established that Chiswick House was an attempt by Lord Burlington to create a Roman villa, rather than Renaissance pastiche, situated in a symbolic Roman garden.

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A château is a “ power house ”, as Sir John Summerson dubbed the British and Irish “ stately homes ” that are the British Isles ' architectural counterparts to French châteaux.
The architectural form of the art gallery was established by Sir John Soane with his design for the Dulwich Picture Gallery in 1817.
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (), OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA ( 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944 ) was a British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.
It is a huge structure of little architectural beauty but enormous historical significance and was, until the death of its last inhabitant, Hazel Radclyffe Dolling ( daughter of the 13th Baronet of Lissan, Sir Robert George Alexander Staples ), in 2006, the oldest domestic dwelling in Ireland continually inhabited by one family.
Following the destruction by fire of the Palace of Westminster in 1834, Pugin was employed by Sir Charles Barry to supply interior designs for his entry to the architectural competition which would determine who would build the new Palace of Westminster.
Flitcroft was Burlington's professional architectural ammanuensis " Burlington Harry " as he was called ; he had prepared for the engravers the designs of Inigo Jones published by Burlington and William Kent in 1727, and in fact Kent was also called in for confabulation over Wentworth Woodhouse, mediated by Sir Thomas Robinson, though in the event the pedestrian Flitcroft was not unseated and continued to provide designs for the house over the following decade: he revised and enlarged Tunnicliffe's provincial Baroque West Front and added wings, as well as temples and other structures in the park.
Jones did not approach the architectural profession in the traditional way, namely either by rising up from a craft or through early exposure to the Office of Works, although there is evidence that Sir Christopher Wren obtained information that recorded Inigo Jones as an apprentice joiner in St Paul's Churchyard.
As a result, the exterior brick was covered with a layer of cement, the existing buildings were heightened slightly, and the architectural effect was also heightened, under the supervision of Sir Jeffry Wyatville.
It was described by architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as " free Neo-Tudor " and " extremely pretty " and by Andor Gomme as " one of the great masterpieces of the early Modern Movement ".
The terrace is a major architectural feature of the village, designed by Sir John James Burnet and constructed in the late 19th century.
The architectural historian Sir John Summerson was Curator of the Museum from 1945 to 1984.
His major legacy is Sir John Soane's Museum, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, formed from his former home and office that he designed to display art works and architectural artifacts that he collected during his lifetime.
The Bank being his most famous work, Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank, demolishing most of Soane's earlier building was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".
The classic statement of the British Arts and Crafts revival of topiary among roses and mixed herbaceous borders, characterised generally as " the old-fashioned garden " or the " Dutch garden " was to be found in Topiary: Garden Craftsmanship in Yew and Box by Nathaniel Lloyd ( 1867 – 1933 ), who had retired in middle age and taken up architectural design with the encouragement of Sir Edwin Lutyens.
The Queen's House, though it was scarcely being used, provided the distant focal centre for Sir Christopher Wren's Greenwich Hospital, with a logic and grandeur that has seemed inevitable to architectural historians but in fact depended on Mary II's insistence that the vista to the water from the Queen's House not be impaired.
Today nearly two hundred years later Wyatt's improvements do not jar the senses as much as they did those of the great architectural commentators James Lees-Milne and Sir Sacheverell Sitwell writing in the 1960s.
In New Zealand, Sir Miles Warren and his practice Warren & Mahoney led the development of the so-called " Christchurch School " of architecture, which fused Brutalist architectural style with Scandinavian and Japanese values of straightforwardness.
The Courtauld has two photographic libraries which started as the private collections of two ennobled benefactors: the Conway Library, covering architecture, architectural drawings, sculpture and illuminated manuscripts, named after Lord Martin Conway and the Witt Library, after Sir Robert Witt, covering paintings, drawings and engravings and containing over 2, 000, 000 reproductions of works by over 70, 000 artists.
William J. R. Curtis, architectural historian and author of Modern Architecture Since 1900, is also a notable alumnus ; as is the great Van Dyck scholar, Sir Oliver Millar.

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