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Also Known As Wood of Bath
Baptized August 26, 1704 • Yorkshire • England
Died May 23, 1754 • Bath • England
Movement / Style Palladianism
Notable Family Members son John Wood the Younger

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Wood, John, the Elder: Queen Square
The Royal Crescent, Bath, Eng., designed by John Wood the Elder and built by his son John Wood the Younger, 1767–75.
Wood, John, the Elder: Royal Crescent
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Royal Crescent
The Royal Crescent
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Inigo Jones
English architect and artist
John Wood the Younger
British architect
Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Jaipur Column
Sir Edwin Lutyens
British architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
John Nash
British architect
Richard Joseph Neutra
Austrian-American architect
Jane Drew
British architect
Griffin, Walter Burley
Walter Burley Griffin
American architect and city planner
William Chambers
William Chambers
British architect
The Radcliffe Camera, designed by James Gibbs
James Gibbs
Scottish architect
House in the Wood
Pieter Post
Dutch architect
Northampton
Edward Godwin
British architect and writer
Webb, Philip Speakman: Red House
Philip Speakman Webb
British architect
Ealing: Pitzhanger Manor-House
Sir John Soane
British architect
Henry Holland
British architect
Burges, William: St. Finbar's Cathedral
William Burges
British architect
Thomas Rickman
British architect
William Kent
William Kent
British architect
London: Chiswick House
Richard Boyle, 3rd earl of Burlington
English architect

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