Why is many of Londons buildings greatly influenced by Greek architecture?
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture. The term was first used by Charles Robert Cockerell in a lecture he gave as Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy in 1842. A very interesting question. It could be that following the Great Fire of London of 1666 and when the City of London had to be redesigned and rebuilt, Sir Christopher Wren, who in his youth had been a student at Gresham College in London, where he was taught by ‘Puritans’, who were influenced by the Greek version of the Holy Bible and not the Catholic Latin Bible. Saul of Tarsus spoke Greek and not Latin, etc. When we come to Sir Christopher Wren’s great masterworks, including esp such as Saint Paul’s Cathedral here in London, it is entirely Greek in it’s design. St. Paul’s Cathedral, City of London –
