The Architecture of the Eighteenth Century

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Looks at eighteenth-century palaces, churches, theaters, libraries, museums, prisons, hospitals, and banks, discusses their various styles, and discusses the development of urban planning.

Sir John Newenham Summerson, CBE was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century. He wrote mainly about British architecture, especially that of the Georgian Era.He was a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, curator of Sir John Soane's Museum, London and Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford.