RENAISSANCE

FRANCE AND ENGLAND

 Inigo Jones was the first significant English
architect in the early modern period, and
the first to employ Vitruvan rules of
proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

INIGO JONES
Inigo Jones, (born July 15, 1573, London, Eng.died June 21,
1652, London), British painter, architect, and designer who
founded the English classical tradition of architecture. The
Queens House (161619) at Greenwich, London, his first major
work, became a part of the in 1937. His greatest achievement is
the Banqueting House (161922) at Whitehall. Joness only other
surviving royal building is the Queens Chapel (162327) .
 BEDFORD SQUARE - 1631
Bedford Square is named after the
Dukes of Bedford, who were the
main landowners in Bloomsbury and
developed the area from the 1660s
to the 1850s.

The Square was the first garden square with an imposed

architectural uniformity and it set the style for garden squares in
London through the late 18th and early 19th centuries

It became the focal point of a new grid of streets to the

west, north and south, although this plan took eighty
years to complete.