INIGO JONES

FATHER OF BRITISH ARCHITECTURE

NATIONALITY AND LIFESPAN
 Born in London on July 15 1573.
 Baptised at St. Bartholomew the less church.
 Died in London on June 21 1652 aged 69.

FAMILY
 His father was also Inigo jones. His mother died in child
birth.
 He never married.

EDUCATION
 It may be assumed as an element of architecture was
chosen by him due to the path in architecture he chose
for his career.
 He travelled to Italy between 1598 and 1603, and made
his second visit to Italy in 1606.
CAREER
 Designer of costume and stage design.
 He would have quite a successful and illustrious career
in architecture.
 Held to the architectural principles of Vitruvius an
ancient Rome writer.
 His architectural work was influenced by Palladio.
 His career took of in 1615 when he was appointed as
the surveyor general of kings works for buildings like
queens house and Wilton house.
 Redesign of white hall palace for king Charles.
 INFLUENCES

 Palladian architecture is a European style of

architecture.
 It is derived from the design of Italian architect Andrea
Palladio.(1508 – 1580).
 The term Palladian architecture is derived from Palladio's
own work.
 Palladio’s work was strongly based on the symmetry
,perspective and value of formal classical temple
architecture of ancient Greeks and roman.
 QUEEN’S HOUSE

 LOCATION: Greenwich, England.

 DATE: 1616 to 1635.
 BUILDING TYPE: Large house.
 CLIMATE: Temperate.
 STYLE: Palladian, Late English Renaissance.
 For Anne of Denmark, wife of James I, in
the grounds of Greenwich Palace.
 Conceived as a hunting lodge, it also
fulfilled the secondary function of a bridge
over the public road to Deptford, which
divided the park in two.
 Jones placed two blocks either side of the road and joined them at
first-floor level by means of a bridge.
 This H-shaped plan, perhaps modelled on the Medici villa at Poggio
a Caiano was later filled in by Webb's addition of two further bridges
on the side elevations.
 Either side of this axis are two suites of rooms.