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John Summerson
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Born: November 25, 1904
Died: November 10, 1992 (aged 87)
Bio: Sir John Newenham Summerson was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century.
Known for:
- The Classical Language of Architecture (1963)
- Georgian London (1945)
- Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830 (1950)
- El Lenguaje Clasico de la Arquitectura (1974)
- The Architecture of the Eighteenth Century (1986)
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