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.
 A two-storey cubic hall facing the river gives access to the bridge
and then to a loggia overlooking the park.
 Typically Palladian, the facades are tripartite with a central
projecting portion.
 Plain walls are set upon a rusticated ground floor and crowned by a
balustrade.
 Curving steps lead up to the main entrance, while the internal
circular staircase is of a type recommended by Palladio.
 Tulip staircase

Panoramic view
BANQUETING HOUSE
 Location : city of west minister , London, England (uk)
 Built : 1240 , 15 – 17 th century .
 Demolished : 1698 ( due to fire)
 Building type : residence of English monarchs
 Jones built a new banqueting house at the white hall
palace for James I. to replace the previous one destroyed
by fire.
 When the banqueting house in London ws completed . I
bore no resemblance to anything ever built in England
before
 It consisted of one cubic room that is served for royal
reception.
 In 1685 banqueting house became the first building in
England to use crowned glass in its window.
 Later in the fire that destroyed the old white hall palace,
the isolated position of the banqueting hall preserved it
from the flames
Interior view of banqueting house
 WILTON HOUSE

 LOCATION: Outside Salisbury, Wiltshire.

 DATE : 1636-1640.
 BUILDING TYPE : English country house.
 CLIMATE : Moderate sea climate.
 STYLE : Palladian style.
 1st there was a nunnery and after 3 centuries replaced
by Wilton house with monastic layout.
 Then became a centre for arts, with an ‘academy’ of
painters, sculptors, musicians, writers and actors
congregating here.
 The Double Cube Room is unique in that the height of of
the room is exactly twice its length and width.
 Almost overlooked beside the Double Cube Room is the
Single Cube Room, where the width, length, and height of
the chamber are equal.
 The Upper Cloister, a long sunlit corridor designed to show off
the 8th Earl's Roman classical sculpture.
 Among other features in the garden is the Whispering Seat, a
semi-circular bench so designed that a whisper into one
corner can be heard in the other corner of the seat, but
cannot be heard outside the seat.

cloister Whispering seat

 Aerial view

Palladian bridge
 Painting room

Library
Covent garden:
 The other project in which jones was involed was the design of
convent garden.
 Here he was commissioned by the duke of Bedford to build a
residential square along the lines of an Italian piazza.
 Convent garden maintained a large kitchen garden throughout the
middle age they provides its daily food.
 Over the next three years , the monks “ old convent garden”
become the major source of fruits and vegetable in London and
was managed by a succession of lease holders by grant from the
abbot of west minster.
Interior of convent garden
THANKYOU