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SATURDAY MORNING ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL
THE EVOLUTION OF LONDONS ARCHITECTURE
DR GEOFFREY TYACK
GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
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GEORGIAN LONDON
GEORGIAN LONDON, 1714-1830
London in the first half of the
18th century
Rebuilding the City after the
Great Fire; Wardrobe Place
Mansion House (George Dance, begun 1736);
Stationers Hall (Robert Mylne, 1800); Bank of England as rebuilt
by Sir John Soane, starting 1792
London Bridge as rebuilt 1762; Custom House Quay; the East
India Company warehouses
Whitehall, and the Banqueting House
designed by Inigo Jones in 1619
Covent Garden (Inigo Jones, 1629-37)
and the market building, 1828-30
St Jamess Square (begun 1665)
Spencer House (1756-8) and the first
picture from William Hogarths
Marriage a la Mode
No.44 Berkeley Square (William Kent, 1742-5)
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The
Cavendish/Harley
estate north of
Oxford Sreeet, and
Cavendish Square
(begun 1717)
Rugby Street, Bloomsbury;
Tavistock Square
Queen Annes Gate; Berkeley Square;
Bedford Row
Adelphi, by Robert and
James Adam, 1768-74
Bedford Square, 1775-86
First, Second and Third Rate houses bulit under the 1774 London
Building Act
Two streets at the northern end of St Martins Lane
Artillery Lane, Spitalfields (1756-7); Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury,
c.1822
Christ Church Spitalfields (Nicholas
Hawksmoor (1714-29); Fournier Street and
former Huguenot chapel 1743-5
St Martin-in-the-Fields,
(James Gibbs, 1721-6) and
the Royal Mews (by
William Kent) on the site
of the National Gallery
The newly-built Horse Guards and government buildings in
Whitehall from St Jamess Park c.1752, after Canaletto
Somerset House (William
Chambers, 1776-1801) and the
Royal Academys exhibition
gallery
Waterloo Bridge (John Rennie, 1811-17, demolished), and
ribbon development along Kennington Road
Clapham Common in 1800
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, rebuilt by Benjamin Wyatt after a
fire, 1810-12
Guys Hospital (1738-41) and the
London Hospital, Whitechapel Rd
(1752-78)
Ironmongers Almshouses/Geffrye Museum, Shoreditch, 1712-14;
Raines school, Wapping, 1719
Bloomsbury Square looking
north to Russell Square; the
British Museum (rebuilt by
Robert Smirke in the 1820s-40s);
University College (William
Wilkins 1826)
Trumans Brewery, Brick Lane, Spitalfields, c.1730-40, etc
West India Docks and London Docks, begun 1800
Regents Park, laid out by John Nash on Crown land, formerly
Marylebone Fields, 1813-16
Regents Park: the Holme (1816-18), Chester Terrace and
Cumberland Terrace (1820s)
Park Village East and West, 1824-38
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Regent
Street, laid
out by Nash,
1815-22
Lower Regent St, Carlton House Terrace (1827-33) and St
Jamess Park as landscaped by John Nash
The Royal Opera House and
Arcade (1816-18) and Haymarket
Theatre
Buckingham Palace, rebuilt
and extended by Nash,
starting 1825
Trafalgar Square as first conceived by Nash; St Martins parochial
buildings, and Nashs West Strand Improvement (1830-2)
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