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Artforum International, December, 2005 by Brown, Denise Scott
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AFTER THE GREAT FIRE OF 1666, England's leading architect, Sir Christopher Wren, made a plan for rebuilding London. Adopting a style fashionable in Europe, he proposed cutting across the city's medieval fabric with broad diagonal avenues that would meet at Rond-Points--a pattern already found on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles and used again in L'Enfant's Washington.
Architects ever since have expressed outrage that Wren's plan was not undertaken, but historians point out that the English monarch at the time lacked the power of a Louis XIV and could not stand against the ...
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