John Nash
Designer of Regent Street and Royal Pavilion, shaping London's urban landscape with neoclassical elegance.
Most quoted
"I've always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask, what is truly logic? Who decides reason?"
— from A Beautiful Mind (film, attributed)
"I was in the middle of a dream, and I was talking to a beautiful woman, and I was saying, 'I'm sorry, I have to go to the bathroom.'"
— from Interview after Nobel Prize, 1994
"The ideas of game theory have been applied to many different fields, from economics to biology to political science."
— from Speech
All quotes by John Nash (100)
Balance is the silent architect of enduring beauty.
Collaborating with Repton taught me that landscape is the canvas of architecture.
Life's structures, like buildings, require strong foundations of integrity.
Regency style is the whisper of classical revival in modern ears.
To build is to dream in stone and mortar.
The folly of excess adorns no true edifice.
London's transformation begins with visionary streets.
Humor in design: a portico that smiles upon the passerby.
Aging gracefully, like a well-crafted facade.
Symmetry is nature's jest at chaos.
The Carlton House was a canvas of regal whimsy.
Politics shapes the patron, but art shapes the legacy.
Every arch tells a story of support and surrender.
In architecture, as in life, the view matters most.
Brighton Pavilion dances with oriental fantasy.
Wisdom dictates that form follows the function of joy.
A comeback to critics: Let the buildings speak.
The soul of a city resides in its public squares.
Classical orders are the grammar of stone.
Legacy is etched not in words, but in walls.
Contemporaries of John Nash
Other Architectures born within 50 years of John Nash (1752–1835).