• 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 century...
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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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    may have been involved. Eye Manor is a Grade I listed building. Sir John Summerson also notes the similarities between the woodwork and plasterwork at...
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    account has divided modern scholars. 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • delivered in 1947 by Sir John Summerson outlining the issues in historic preservation that underlie Lancaster's comedy. Summerson described tongue-in cheek...
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