Nash, John (1752-1835), was an English architect, urban planner, and landscape gardener. His designs played a major part in improving the architectural appearance of modern London, England. Under the patronage of the Prince of Wales, later King George IV of the United Kingdom, Nash replanned the Regent’s Park area of London as a vast landscaped garden. This garden was broken up by wide streets bordered on each side by villas. Regent Street and Carlton House Terrace were completed between 1810 and 1830. But the remainder of Nash’s design was abandoned because of the cost.
Nash’s designs created such central locations in modern London as Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, and Waterloo Place. Nash worked on a number of other projects in London, including Buckingham House (now Buckingham Palace) and the Marble Arch. One of his most famous projects was the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, England. Nash transformed this modest villa of Prince George into a showy structure topped by onion-shaped domes, like palaces and other structures built by the Mughal Empire in India.
Nash was born in London. After several years of apprenticeship, he started his architecture practice in 1777. He died on May 13, 1835.
