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John Simpson CVO (born 9 November 1954), is a British New Classical architect.
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John Simpson CVO (born 9 November 1954), is a British New Classical architect.
Simpson attended The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, United Kingdom. [1] He is Principal of John Simpson Architects, based in London, and a visiting professor at the School of Architecture at Cambridge University [2] and Fellow at Gonville and Caius College.
Simpson is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Simpson is part of the New Classical Architecture movement of contemporary architects designing in classical styles. A profile of Simpson's design for his own house featured on the Sky Arts programme The Art of Architecture in 2019. [3]
An extract from the entry in the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, compiled by Professor James Stevens Curl, reads:
“English architect. Having rejected International Modernism, he sought to show how the classical language of architecture could be used in contemporary economic, technical and functional requirements.......Simpson had considerable influence in making the public aware of New Classicism in the 1980s, especially with the exhibition Real Architecture (opened in 1987 by HRH Prince Charles). His works at Gonville and Caius College, at the University of Cambridge (1994-98), have added lustre to his reputation. The Brownsword Hall and Market, the first public building to be built at Prince of Wales’s development in Poundbury, was completed in 2000. In 1998 his firm won the competition to redevelop the Queen’s (now the King’s) Gallery, and the Royal Kitchens at Buckingham Palace, London which was completed in time for the opening of Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee Celebrations in 2002. Since then, the practice has been commissioned to carry out work in the USA and has worked on a number of buildings on the upper East side of Manhattan and on 5th Avenue in New York. The first, the Carhart was completed in 2005, has been described by the Landmarks Commission of New York as the first Traditionally Classical Building to be built in the city since the 1960’s and for which he was awarded the Palladio prize in 2007.”
In the opening introduction of his book The Architecture of John Simpson, the timeless language of Classicism, Professor David Watkin says:
“…….. His buildings are at once fresh and original yet are conceived as contributions to the classical and traditional architecture that has been at the heart of Western Civilisation for approaching two thousand years…….Simpson draws into a [architectural] language of his own many sources from Greek and Roman architecture……demonstrating that the classical language is timeless, and thus that architects such as Alberti, Soane, Schinkel and Cockerell, on whom Simpson also draws for inspiration, are as relevant as Bathykles, Mnesicles or Ictinus. In other words, the age of a building is immaterial as regards its claim to beauty. “
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