Slides from the London Society's Saturday morning architecture school. This is the 21st Georgian city - the lecturer was Dr Geoffrey Tyack

1. SATURDAY MORNING ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL
THE EVOLUTION OF LONDON’S ARCHITECTURE
DR GEOFFREY TYACK
GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
@londonsoc

2. GEORGIAN LONDON
GEORGIAN LONDON, 1714-1830

3. London in the first half of the
18th century

4. Rebuilding the City after the
Great Fire; Wardrobe Place

5. Mansion House (George Dance, begun 1736);
Stationers’ Hall (Robert Mylne, 1800); Bank of England as rebuilt
by Sir John Soane, starting 1792

6. London Bridge as rebuilt 1762; Custom House Quay; the East
India Company warehouses

7. Whitehall, and the Banqueting House
designed by Inigo Jones in 1619

8. Covent Garden (Inigo Jones, 1629-37)
and the market building, 1828-30

9. St James’s Square (begun 1665)

10. Spencer House (1756-8) and the first
picture from William Hogarth’s
‘Marriage a la Mode’

11. No.44 Berkeley Square (William Kent, 1742-5)

13. The
Cavendish/Harley
estate north of
Oxford Sreeet, and
Cavendish Square
(begun 1717)

14. Rugby Street, Bloomsbury;
Tavistock Square

15. Queen Anne’s Gate; Berkeley Square;
Bedford Row

16. Adelphi, by Robert and
James Adam, 1768-74

17. Bedford Square, 1775-86

18. First, Second and Third Rate houses bulit under the 1774 London
Building Act

19. Two streets at the northern end of St Martin’s Lane

20. Artillery Lane, Spitalfields (1756-7); Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury,
c.1822

21. Christ Church Spitalfields (Nicholas
Hawksmoor (1714-29); Fournier Street and
former Huguenot chapel 1743-5

22. St Martin-in-the-Fields,
(James Gibbs, 1721-6) and
the Royal Mews (by
William Kent) on the site
of the National Gallery

23. The newly-built Horse Guards and government buildings in
Whitehall from St James’s Park c.1752, after Canaletto

24. Somerset House (William
Chambers, 1776-1801) and the
Royal Academy’s exhibition
gallery

25. Waterloo Bridge (John Rennie, 1811-17, demolished), and
ribbon development along Kennington Road

26. Clapham Common in 1800

27. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, rebuilt by Benjamin Wyatt after a
fire, 1810-12

28. Guy’s Hospital (1738-41) and the
London Hospital, Whitechapel Rd
(1752-78)

29. Ironmongers’ Almshouses/Geffrye Museum, Shoreditch, 1712-14;
Raine’s school, Wapping, 1719

30. Bloomsbury Square looking
north to Russell Square; the
British Museum (rebuilt by
Robert Smirke in the 1820s-40s);
University College (William
Wilkins 1826)

31. Truman’s Brewery, Brick Lane, Spitalfields, c.1730-40, etc

32. West India Docks and London Docks, begun 1800

33. Regent’s Park, laid out by John Nash on Crown land, formerly
Marylebone Fields, 1813-16

34. Regents Park: the Holme (1816-18), Chester Terrace and
Cumberland Terrace (1820s)

35. Park Village East and West, 1824-38

36. The#16A7BE
Regent
Street, laid
out by Nash,
1815-22

37. Lower Regent St, Carlton House Terrace (1827-33) and St
James’s Park as landscaped by John Nash

38. The Royal Opera House and
Arcade (1816-18) and Haymarket
Theatre

39. Buckingham Palace, rebuilt
and extended by Nash,
starting 1825

40. Trafalgar Square as first conceived by Nash; St Martin’s parochial
buildings, and Nash’s ‘West Strand Improvement’ (1830-2)

42. @londonsoc
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