post fire rebuilding of london + battle of styles

great fire on london 1666

burnt 4/5ths of london and old st pauls cathedral

rebuilding act 1667

king charles II stated buildings needed to be built of brick or stone

city of london development

became financial/ commercial hub instead of residential

christopher wren

80 churches burnt down and he rebuilt 50 + st pauls cathedral

built in style of neo classical/baroque

inspired john nash and nicholas hawksmore

mainstreamed neoclassical architecture

Pugin/ Ruskin

believed that architecture required true principles

gothic architecture was more moral (made for god) instead of for personal ego of architect and is more “british”

Ruskin: believed gothic architecture was morally superior

inigo jones

built queens house and banqueting house (neo classical)

and designed st pauls church

andrea palladio

4 books of architecture

influenced inigo jones

st martins in the fields (1721-6)

gothic revival