The architecture of Inigo Jones was the flatpack of its day

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Inigo Jones was described as the first professional English architect, who invented a form of architectural education that was to set the model for the next two centuries. He was undoubtedly a formidable intellect as his drawings revealed a process through stages of uncertainty and awkardness in the Classical repertoire, but it was difficult to imagine that all previous designers were unselfcritical and avoided drafts.

Works, Architecture, British, British architecture, Jones, Inigo

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The practice of architecture must be as old as arranging rocks

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A study reveals that even before the term Architect was coined, the history of architecture stretches back many thousands of years. Some of the earliest recorded artisans on earth are architects as fine concepts of any historical or prehistorical era, for real or imagined buildings, the instigator might as well be regarded as an Architect.

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What was expected of the bright young thing in the later 18th century?

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The trends in architecture prevailing during the later eighteenth century are traced and discussed.

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