biography
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| lived:
| (1682–1754)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Aberdeen, NE Scotland, UK. He studied under Carlo Fontana, in Italy. A friend and disciple of Wren, he became in 1713 one of the commissioners for building new churches in London. His designs included St Mary-le-Strand (1717) and St Martin-in-the-Fields (1726), the latter being perhaps his most influential and attractive work. He was also responsible for St Bartholomew's Hospital (1730). His Book of Architecture (1728) helped to spread the Palladian style, and influenced the design of many churches of the colonial period in America. |
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