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John Nash: Works
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John Nash was born in London in September 1752. He began his career in the office of Sir Robert Taylor. In 1777 Nash established his own practice, but he went bankrupt in 1783 and moved to Wales, where he built country houses, cottages, and various minor public works. By 1791 he had achieved considerable success.
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In 1958 John Nash began to show the first signs of his mental illness. He became paranoid and was admitted into the McLean Hospital, April-May 1959, where he was diagnosed with 'paranoid schizophrenia'. After a problematic stay in Paris and Geneva, Nash returned to Princeton in 1960. He stayed there (in and out of mental hospitals) until 1970, unable to work or produce meaningful scientific results. Illustrative is the 30-years publication gap between 1966 and 1996 of any scientific work. In 1970 he remained at home and lived a quiet life.
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This reference work catalogues and illustrates all the known and attributed works and design of John Nash. Altogether, Nash was responsible for some 230 projects, and these are all illustrated, either by the author's own photographs or, in the case of demolished buildings, by contemporary views and technical drawings. The photographs are supported by captions giving factual data for the use and interest of scholars and general information about the buildings, their settings and their original owners for the general reader. Each caption has its own bibliography and plan where applicable. The book closes with a chronological list of works, a list of patrons and clients, a gazetteer and two maps showing the locations of the works.
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After graduating from Princeton, Nash taught mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. He had a son with Eleanor Stier before marrying Alicia Larde in 1957, with whom he ... fathered a son. Along with teaching at MIT, Nash worked at the RAND Corporation think tank in Santa Monica, California. Nash was fired in 1954 after being arrested for indecent exposure in a public restroom during a Santa Monica police sting against homosexuals. Nasar wrote: "The biggest shock to Nash may not have been the arrest itself, but the subsequent expulsion from RAND." In 1957, he divided his time between the Institute for Advanced Study and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
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Nash's other major building project in London, Buckingham Palace, did not fare so well.... When Nash began work on the Palace in 1825 it was still Buckingham House. The Prince Regent had decided that Carlton House was "antiquated, rundown, and decrepit", and decided to create a palace on the site of the Duke of Buckingham's former villa.
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From 1825 to 1827, after the prince had become King George IV, Nash remodelled Buckingham House (now Buckingham Palace) for him. Nash aimed at a truly magnificent palace, but the building was hasty and ill thought out, and after George IV’s death, Nash was dismissed and Parliament investigated his “irregularity and negligence”. His work is now hidden behind Aston Webb’s 1912 façade, facing the Mall, but can still be appreciated from the garden.
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