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Soane, Sir John
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Soane, Sir John (1753–1837). English architect. Following an apprenticeship and successful studies at the Royal Academy, between 1778 and 1780 Soane travelled in Italy on a scholarship awarded by George III. In 1788 he won the competition to design a new Bank of England and remained as surveyor to the Bank until 1833. Of this, his most important work, only some fine interiors remain. Two houses he designed for himself show his mature style; Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, is now a library, while 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields is the Sir John Soane Museum, containing his collection of antiques and paintings. Dulwich College Art Gallery, another most original design, was destroyed in 1944, but faithfully rebuilt. Less successful than his great rival John
Nash, from whom he differed in every respect, Soane was probably a truer interpreter of the period's taste for the classical. He was knighted in 1831.
June Cochrane
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Sir John Soane and London
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal; 7/13/2006; ; 700+ words
; Sir John Soane and London By Ptolemy Dean. Lund Humphries...pencil guideline and you wonder, since Soane's work is anything but tentative, why...the architectural illuminati need to buy Sir John Soane and London? Architecture school libraries...
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Soane wanted to view himself as a teacher as well as a practitioner.(Royal Academy of Arts (London, England))(Sir John Soane's Museum (London, England))
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 11/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Beauty in Architecture Until 30 January 2010, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK www.soane.org The Soane Museum takes up its founder...Architecture, which were originally prepared for John Soane's lectures at the Royal Academy in 1809...
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Sir John Soane's Museum. (London, England) (Column)
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...The collection on view in Sir John Soane's Museum, displayed...possible in the state in which Sir John Soane shall leave it'. The...Albert Museum to succeed Sir John Summerson in 1984, is...reinforced his admiration for Soane, who incidentally was...
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Let there be magical light Sir John Soane was not highly praised in his lifetime, but does his work hold lessons for radical modern architecture? By Nonie Niesewand
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/13/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...hadn't even been discovered when Sir John Soane (1753-1837) experimented with...twinkle in Thomas Edison's eye. Yet Soane understood all about the impact of...Philip Johnson who declared that John Soane was "really a ceiling architect...
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Sir John Soane's Moggerhanger: a very personal work.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...corner, an extension designed by Sir John Soane in 1791 completes the east front...FIGURE 2 OMITTED] With so many of Soane's buildings altered or lost, Moggerhanger...houses, and the archives in Sir John Soane's Museum allow insight into...
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Three into one will go With the acquisition of a next-door house, Sir John Soane's Museum in London can at last do full justice to its creator's genius, reports JAY MERRICK
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/23/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...world's architectural holy grails, Sir John Soane's Museum in London's Lincoln...is about to become even holier. Soane, whose lavish imagination produced...Lincoln's Inn Fields duly became Sir John Soane's Museum. But number 14...
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Capital Soane.(Sir John Soane and London)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; SIR JOHN SOANE AND LONDON By Ptolemy Dean. Aldershot: Lund Humphries. 2006. [pounds sterling]40 John Soane must be the most popular historic architect in Britain, so it is remarkable...
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Built from the heart: Tom Lawrence visits an exhibition at the Sir John Soane Museum that celebrates the work of the deliberate romantic architect Will Alsop. (The Week Ahead).
Magazine article from: Design Week; 4/4/2002; ; 700+ words
; Sir John Soane's biographer, Gillian Darley...buildings are chalk and cheese. Soane constantly refined and reduced...And well done, the Sir John Soane's Museum, for engaging...Joy and the Real' is at Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln...
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Soane ranger: Sir John Soane's museum, London, 1808-1812 Sir John Soane.(end quote)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Residential Architect; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Sir John Soane, the English architect, scholar, and...In addition to serving as a residence for Soane and his family, the house held office space...considerable skills with light and color, Soane created a house devoted to the display and...
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Our Glorious Heritage: The ruins of Sir John Soane
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 4/27/2003; ; 700+ words
; The architect Sir John Soane was fascinated by ruins - as many architects...ruined Palace of Westminster, which Soane was rebuilding. At that time, in the...s Inn Fields - now preserved as Sir John Soane's Museum - is more or less as...
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Sir John Soane
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir John Soane Sir John Soane (1753-1837) was one of England's most original and distinguished architect in the neoclassic idiom. The son of a bricklayer, John Soane was born on Sept. 10, 1753, at Goring-on-Thames, Reading. He entered...
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Soane, Sir John
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Soane, Sir John (1753–1837). English architect...1759–1806), cousin of one of Soane's friends from his Roman trip, and Prime...1812–13—now Sir John Soane's Museum), one of the most complex...
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Summerson, Sir John Newenham
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Summerson, Sir John Newenham (1904–92). Anglo...He made his name with his biography of John Nash (1935, 1949, 1980), yet after...the year he was appointed Curator of Sir John Soane 's Museum, a position he held until...
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Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis ( b London, 1756; d London, 7 Jan. 1811). English...paintings and helped to finance the building of a gallery designed by Sir John Soane, the most original English architect of his time and a friend of Bourgeois...
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Georgian architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...stemming from buildings by Sir Christopher Wren and carried on by Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor...George Dance II, and Sir John Soane. A vast increase in population...the Bank of England, by Sir John Soane; and monumental street...
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