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Christopher Wren

1632–1723 · English astronomer and architect · England

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Godfrey Kneller · Licence: Public domain · Source

Bio

Rebuilt much of London after the Great Fire and developed a distinctive English Baroque architecture.

Key works

  • St Paul's Cathedral

THE RETHINK

Christopher Wren helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Christopher Wren changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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