CONTENTS Introduction 13 RIBA Royal Gold Medallists Heroes and Things Experiencing London's Architecture London's Population 1.Elusive individuals 25 2.Backcloth architecture 33 Inigo Jones1573-1652 Sir Roger Pratt1620-85 Hugh May1621-84 3.Lector si momumentum requiris, circumspice 45 Sir Christopher Wren1632-1723 Robert Hooke1635-1703 The Surviving Wren Parish and Guild Churches The Problem of Attribution Nicholas Hawksmoor1661-1736 Sir John Vanbrugh1664-1726 Thomas Archer1668-1743 John James1672-1746 James Gibbs1682-1754 Vitruvius 4, The rule of taste 77 Richard Boyle (Lord Burlington) 1694-1753 Colen Campbell 1676-1729 William Kent 1686-1748 Sir Robert Taylor 1714-88 George Dance, the Elder 1694-1768 George Dance, the Younger 1741-1825 Andrea Paliadio Competing Ambitions: Chambers and Adam Sir William Chambers 1722-96 Robert Adam 1728-92 5.Greekish figures 103 Sir John Soane 1753-1837 Henry Holland 1745-1806 John Nash 1752-1835 An Architecture of Urbanity Sir James Pennethorne 1800-71 Pennethorne's Park Village Thomas Hardwick 1752-1829 Philip Hardwick 1792-1870 Philip Charles Hardwick 1822-92 Sir Robert Smirke 1781-1867 Sydney Smirke 1798-1877 Charles Robert Cockerell 1788-1863 William Wilkins 1778-1839 The Wyatt Dynasty William Inwood 1771-1843 Henry William Inwood 1794-1843 George Basevi 1794-1845 Thomas Cundy 1790-1867 James Burton 1761-1837 Decimus Burton 1800-80 Thomas Cubitt 1788-1855 Lewis Cubitt 1799-1883 6. The Well-judgeJ,the imaginative and the fanciful 137 Sir Charles Barry 1795-1860 Charles Barry (Jnr) 1823-1900 Edward Middleton Barry 1830-80 Sir John Wolfe-Barry 1836-1918 A.W.N. Pugin 1812-52 Sir William Tite 1798-1873 The Gilbert Scott's George Gilbert Scott 1811-78 William Butterfield 1814-1900 Owen Jones 1809-74 George Edmund Street 1824-81 Other Figures The Changing Victorian Townhouse 7.Freedoms, sweetness and light181 What was the Queen Anne? Richard Norman Shaw 1831-1912 W.E. Nesfield 1835-88 J.J.Stevenson 1831 -1908 John Dando Sedding 1838-91 E.W.Godwin 1833-86 Philip Speakman Webb 1831-1915 William Morris 1834-96 Sir Ernest George 1839-1922 C.R.Ashbee 1863 -1942 Ernest Newton 1856-1922 A 'free style': is there any such thing? C.F.A.Voysey 1857-1941 Cecil Brewer 1888-1933, and Dunbar Smith 1871-1918 Alfred Waterhouse 1830-1905 John Francis Bentley 1839-1902 C.H. Townsend 1851-1928 LCC Architects Sir Horace Jones 1819-87 Sir Joseph Bazalgette 1819-91 Fhomas Leverton Donaldson 1795-1885 8.Gifted and departed 227 Educating heroes and Francophile sentiments Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens 1869-1944 Sir Herbert Baker 1862-1946 Sir Aston Webb 1849-1930 Sir Edwin Cooper 1874-1942 Professor Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield 1856-1942 John Belcher 1841-1913, and Arthur Beresford Pite 1861-1934 John James Joass 1868-1952 Sculptural Adornments Thomas Edward Colcutt 1840-1924 The Mansion Block Henry John Treadwell 1861-1910 Leonard Martin 1869-1935 C.H.Worley d.1906 Halsey Ricardo 1854-1928 Mackay High Baillie Scott 1865-1945 The Death of the Picturesque Hampstead Garden Suburb Getting About Curtis Green 1875-1960 Basil Champneys 1842-1935 Aldwych and Kingsway Henry Vaughn Lanchester 1863-1953 James S. Stewart 1866-1904 Edwin Alfred Rickards 1872-1920 Sir John Burnet 1857-1938 Thomas Smith Tait 1882-1954 Arthur Joseph Davis 1878-1951 Emanuel Vincent Harris 1876-1971 Sir Albert Richardson 1880-1964