Title & Author:

Nash's London / [presented by] Sir John Summerson.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1980.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (23 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Sir John Summerson, 1981 -- Nash's London Superimposed On Modern Tourist Map -- 17 Bloomsbury Square & 68 -- 71 Great Russell Street, 1777 -- 1778. The Porch & Attic Storey Were Added In 1860 -- Top: Caerhays Castle, Cornwall, 1808. Bottom: Cronkhill, Near Shrewsbury, c. 1802 -- Blaise Hamlet, Near Bristol, 1811 -- Marylebone Park Farm (Stockdale Map), 1809 -- Leverton's Plan For Marylebone Park -- Nash's First Plan For Marylebone Park, 1811 -- Sections Of Panorama Illustrating Nash's Proposals For Marylebone Park -- Top: Plan For Marylebone Park, 1812, Showing Leasing Proposals. Bottom: Plan Of Regent's Park, 1826 -- Leverton's Plan For A New Street From Charing Cross To Portland Place -- Nash's Plan For The New Street -- Portland Place, 1782 -- Plan Of The New Street, 1814 -- Waterloo Place, 1827 -- Top: The Quadrant At South End Of Regent Street. Bottom: North End Of Regent Street -- Top: Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park. Bottom: Park Crescent Today -- Park Village West Today -- Top: Buckingham Palace As First Designed & Partly Built, 1825 -- 1828. Bottom: Proposed Plan Of St. James' Park, 1828 -- Throne Room In The Palace -- All Souls, Langham Place Today -- Carlton House Terrace Today -- Sussex Place, Regent's Park, Recently Rebuilt -- Wax Miniature Portrait Of John Nash By J.A. Cunningham.

Summary:

Nash's architecture is among the greatest of London, yet few people realise that John Nash was a great entrepreneur without whose drive, sense of urgency and unfailing invention none of it would have been realised. Only one architect before Nash's time had proposed a London re-planning on such a scale, and that was Wren. Wren's proposals failed, Nash's succeeded. The London he shaped started in 1812, in his 60th year, and ended in 1832. His plans gave London new life, a great new system of circulation, a new equilibrium, and indeed a new sense of pride and self-confidence as the capital of a great nation. The late Sir John Summerson, formerly curator of Sir John Soane's Museum in London and author of "The Life & Work Of John Nash", tells the story in his talk of Nash's incredible achievement.

Subject:

Nash, John, 1752-1835.
Architecture, Modern 18th century.
Architecture, Modern 19th century.
Architecture 18e siècle.
Architecture 19e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Summerson, John, 1904-1992, narrator.