John Summerson
Sign in to saveAlso known as John Newenham Summerson, Sir John Newenham Summerson, John Newenham, Sir Summerson, Sir John Summerson
British architectural historian (1904–1992)
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- Born
- 1959
- Works
- 8
Top works
- The Complete Guide to Climbing in the Northeast
- Complete Guide to Climbing in California 2nd Edition
- 50 Climbs in Utah
- The Complete Guide to Climbing by Bike in Colorado
- The Complete Guide To Climbing By Bike In The Southeast A Guide To Cycling Climbing And The Most Difficult Hill Climbs In The Southeast United States
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
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Quotes
- “Wanstead was a key building of its age. It looked back to Castle Howard, but by virtue of its purity of detail superseded that house as a model. In its designing there were three stages.”
- “With the completion of Shepherd's Grosvenor Square houses, about 1730, the development of urban design in London ceases, for a time, to be of much interest. The story, however, continues and reaches its climax in Bath where street design developed in a most important way for a matter of forty years.”
- “Street design up to the time of the Regency will be found to be loyal, in principle, to what had been developed in Bath. The two most important names in English planning during the period are those of Robert Adam and George Dance II, whose careers will be dealt with in the chapters which follow. Both of them recognized the principle of the monumentally treated block of ordinary houses, with centre and wings emphasized, as the proper solution of the urban street problem.”
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- date of birth
- 1904-11-25
- date of death
- 1992-11-10
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1904 births1992 deaths20th-century English historians20th-century English male writersAcademics of Birkbeck, University of LondonAcademics of the University of CambridgeAlumni of University College LondonBritish architectural historiansCommanders of the Order of the British EmpireEnglish architecture writersEnglish curatorsEnglish male non-fiction writersFellows of the British AcademyFellows of the Society of Antiquaries of LondonKnights BachelorMembers of the Order of the Companions of HonourPeople educated at Harrow SchoolPeople from DarlingtonPeople of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of EnglandRecipients of the Royal Gold MedalSlade Professors of Fine Art (University of Oxford)