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John Simpson is one of the leading architects in Europe who has returned in recent years to the classical language of architecture, with all its richness, subtlety, and historic resonances. His public and private works show how this language, though abandoned by the Modernists, lends itself with particular ease to the incorporation of the latest developments in technology. Describing a wide range of work from furniture design to town-planning, this beautifully illustrated book gives pride of place to his principal commission so far, the new Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, a major new centre for the visual arts in London, opened by Her Majesty the Queen in May 2002 as part of the celebrations of her Golden Jubilee.

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Dr. Richard John was educated at Cambridge, where he took a starred First in History of Art, at Columbia University, and at Warburg Institute, London. He worked for HRH The Prince of Wales from 1995-1998, first as Director of the Prince's Institute of Architecture in London, and then as founding Director of the Prince's Summer School in Architecture in the United States. In 1999 he joined the Faculty of the School of Architecture at the University of Miami. Professor David Watkins is a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is Vice-chairman of the Georgian Group and was a member of the Historic Buildings Council and its successor bodies in English Heritage form 1980-1995.

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