English Architecture, 1650 to 1760: The Rise of Consensus - Simon Thurley

Opened up to the world once more England drank in influences and ideas from abroad which were to infuse English building with widely held ideas and values.
Simon Thurley, Chief Executive of English Heritage, delivers this lecture on English building between 1650 to 1760 in his capacity as Visiting Professor of the Built Environment at Gresham College.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
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[@ChristopherBowly]

Excellent lecture. Many thanks.

[@Scugnizz8]

Very useful. Liked the way key points were put across. Often in academia there is too much detail and too little context, which makes for some very dull listening. Great amount of context to the detail. Shows a through understanding of the issues being discussed which allows a huge amount of knowledge to be tranferred quickly. Thank you.

[@rubenjames7345]

Not the kind of thing that keeps me up at night wondering about it, but interesting and well presented.

[@xyzllii]

Excellent. Engaging and informative.

[@mr.bob4630]

A brilliant lecture. Very informative.

[@12dudette]

love this! England led the way to elegance and class of 18thc.

[@MUSTASCH1O]

Yeah the Brits took their influence from the French, but English interpretations of the ideas from abroad are beautiful.

[@GreshamCollege]

Thanks, KKahden - we will!

[@user-rs7th9jb6w]

39:53 elephants

[@optionsupdate]

did they set the fire to get rid of the plague

[@steffihex]

no

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

So basicly you were influenced by the Dutch to take it easy with the blingbling..

[@thejonnygator]

my old college...