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To mark the 300th anniversary of the death of Christopher Wren—one of the ... profile for a structurally sound dome. (Some of Wren's drawings and calculations for the structural role of the ...
Christopher Wren's 1690 drawing Credit: Photo: PHOTOLIBRARY Towards the end of his long life, Christopher Wren paid a heart-rending visit to St Paul's Cathedral, the building he called his ...
Sir Christopher Wren is one of the best-known British architects of all time. The RIBA Collections hold a vast number of drawings and photographs of his buildings, as well as many of his scientific ...
Did he or didn’t he? It’s a debate that began long before the American Revolution. No one knows for sure whether Christopher Wren, the famed 17th-century British architect, actually designed ...
To Wren, building was a three-dimensional science. By Michael Prodger If there is one part of one building that is quintessential Christopher Wren it is not the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral, or the ...
To Wren, building was a three-dimensional science. By Michael Prodger If there is one part of one building that is quintessential Christopher Wren it is not the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral, or the ...
He finds that praising Wren's works (shown in 30 b&w illustrations), can seem almost trite, "rather like saying that Shakespeare wrote some good plays." Still, readers interested in European art ...
"Sir Christopher Wren's failed project for a crossing tower and spire..." by Gordon Higgott in Burlington Magazine, Jan 2019. "The Wren-Hawksmoor collection of drawings at Westminster Abbey" by Gordon ...