• Sir John Newenham Summerson, CH, CBE, FBA, FSA (25 November 1904 – 10 November 1992) was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th...
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    101–106 Summerson, 266–269 Summerson, 44–45 Summerson, 44–45 Summerson, 45 Summerson, 73–86 Summerson, 147–191 correspondence in The Guardian Summerson, 159-160...
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  • Summerson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hugo Summerson (born 1950), British politician John Summerson (1904–1992), English architectural...
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    Islam in the region. In a 1941 essay, the architectural historian Sir John Summerson called it "surface modulation". The earliest decoration and ornament...
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    Retrieved 2 July 2022. Summerson 1953, pp. 295–297. Cruikshank 1985, pp. 6–7. Summerson 1953, p. 188. Summerson 1953, p. 208. Summerson 1953, pp. 297–308....
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  • US Boston: MIT Press, 1965, and other editions. Summerson, 6 Summerson, 144 Summerson, 6 Summerson, John, The Classical Language of Architecture, 1980 edition...
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    Midlands. The term originates with the architectural historian Sir John Summerson, and has been generally adopted. He called them "...the most daring...
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    classical architecture. This broad use of the term is employed by Sir John Summerson in The Classical Language of Architecture. The elements of classical...
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    financially unsustainable in the 1930s. The architectural historian John Summerson attended the school in the early 20th century. While he enjoyed his...
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    have the handsomest barn in England". The building is described by Sir John Summerson as "a study in the strictly Vitruvian Tuscan Order" and "almost an archaeological...
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