Simon Thurley looks at the history of the guildhall as a seat of power to rival that of Parliament and Monarchs: www.gresham.ac....
The government of the City of London is older than parliament itself and its Guildhall is a rival to the Palace of Westminster. This makes the Lord Mayor a King in his own palace; but how has this been expressed in architecture?
This lecture looks at the architectural patronage of the City's Lord Mayors from earliest time to the present.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: www.gresham.ac....
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1 дек 2015
