• Quinlan Terry's Life in Architecture Quinlan Terry's Life in Architecture

    Quinlan Terry's Life in Architecture

    March 2025

    This video is an interview between Francis and his father Quinlan Terry CBE, discussing the many unforgettable moments in his highly successful sixty-year career. His life has seen classical and traditional architecture change from being derided as a joke and even immoral in the ‘50s and ‘60s, to its adoption by Prince Charles and the Post-Modern movement in the ‘80s, and now its total acceptance. With a broad variety of topics discussed, this interview will interest architects and non-architects alike.

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  • NPPF Paragraph 84e Explained NPPF Paragraph 84e Explained

    NPPF Paragraph 84e Explained

    March 2024

    Many people, perhaps you, would love to build yourself a new house in the country where you could live with your family and work from home in rural tranquility. It is perhaps the English dream. The problem is getting planning permission. But don’t despair, NPPF paragraph 84e is the planning legislation which is specifically written to allow this to happen. The clause states that the new house has to be an ‘exceptional’ work of architecture and so it is not easy to get planning permission… but not impossible. In this video architect Francis Terry and planning specialist Martin Leay discuss how this can be done in practical terms using examples of their many past successes of ‘paragraph 84e’ houses.

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  • What is Sustainable Architecture With Joey and Francis Terry What is Sustainable Architecture With Joey and Francis Terry

    What is Sustainable Architecture With Joey and Francis Terry

    May 2023

    In this video Francis Terry discusses with his son Joey what ways architects can address these pressing issues, and how traditional construction methods and materials can contribute to the debate.

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  • Francis Terry - The Leake Street Classicist Francis Terry - The Leake Street Classicist

    Francis Terry - The Leake Street Classicist

    April 2011

    On the 1st of April 2011 Francis entered the unfamiliar territory of ‘Banksy’s Tunnel’ in London’s Leake Street to spend the whole day treating the graffitied walls as a classical facade.

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  • How to Draw Like Raphael How to Draw Like Raphael

    How to Draw Like Raphael

    April 2020

    The highest praise one can give an artist is to say he or she draws like Raphael. It comes in the same package as writing like Shakespeare or ‘bending it like Beckham’. As I can’t write poetry and don’t play football the latter two challenges are not open to me, but drawing like Raphael... how hard can it be?

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  • Three Classicists drawing at the Mantownhuman Winter School Three Classicists drawing at the Mantownhuman Winter School

    Three Classicists drawing at the Mantownhuman Winter School

    November 2010

    For the Mantownhuman Winter School, the Three Classicists - Francis Terry, Ben Pentreath and George Saumarez Smith - spent a day drawing a classical scheme which was immediately rubbed out on completion.

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  • An Introduction to the Architecture of the Italian Renaissance An Introduction to the Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

    An Introduction to the Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

    May 2018

    This is a video of my ‘in house’ office lecture about the Italian Renaissance. This lecture covers one of the greatest outbursts of creativity in the history of western art and architecture.

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  • An Introduction to Baroque Architecture An Introduction to Baroque Architecture

    An Introduction to Baroque Architecture

    February 2019

    This is a lecture I gave to the office about the baroque movement in architecture. It follows on from a lecture I gave about the renaissance and is the precursor to a future lecture on neoclassicism.

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  • An Introduction to 18th Century Architecture from Rococo to Neo Classicism An Introduction to 18th Century Architecture from Rococo to Neo Classicism

    An Introduction to 18th Century Architecture: From Rococo to Neo Classicism

    December 2019

    The 18th century is where I go routinely for inspiration. There is something magical about Georgian architecture which everyone seems to enjoy no matter who they are. Historically I see the 18th century as the transition from traditional society to the modern world. As catholicism gradually lost its power, the Baroque style also began to lose its grip and evolved into the Rococo. Like the last moments of a dying star which produces the many and varied elements of the universe, the Rococo was Baroque in an explosive, dynamic and beautiful decline.

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  • An Introduction to British Architecture from Queen Victoria to George VI An Introduction to British Architecture from Queen Victoria to George VI

    An Introduction to British Architecture from Queen Victoria to George VI

    March 2020

    The Victorian age inherited the battle of styles which defined the end of the Georgian era, a battle which was not convincingly won by either side. Gothic, Classical and even Mughal style architecture were all available to patrons and architects.

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  • English Architecture Between the Wars English Architecture Between the Wars

    English Architecture Between the Wars

    March 2020

    It is hard to imagine the decimation caused by the First World War. Understandably, a growing number of people started to feel that there was something terribly wrong with a civilisation which caused young boys from neighbouring countries to commit murder for a purpose that no one really knew or understood.

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  • Classical Architecture in Modern Times

    April 2012

    Classical architecture in modern times: A talk by George Saumarez Smith and Francis Terry at TEDxLondonBusinessSchool. Six commonly asked questions.

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  • A Life In Sketchbooks A Life In Sketchbooks

    A Life In Sketchbooks

    April 2022

    Francis gave a zoom talk on his sketching through the decades to the Traditional Architects Group recently. In this talk, Francis discusses his work from his various sketchbooks and focus on how these drawings inspired his work.

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  • The Erechtheum Portico, From Ancient Greece to Downing and Beyond The Erechtheum Portico, From Ancient Greece to Downing and Beyond

    The Erechtheum Portico, From Ancient Greece to Downing and Beyond

    March 2017

    Part of 'Catalysized: Outcomes of Catalysis' at the Seventh Catalysis Conference, 24-26 March 2017, Downing College, Cambridge.

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  • NPPF Paragraph 79e Explained NPPF Paragraph 79e Explained

    NPPF Paragraph 79e Explained

    October 2020

    Many people, would love to build a new house in the country. The problem is getting planning permission. But don't despair, NPPF paragraph 79e is the planning legislation which is specifically written to allow this to happen. In this video Francis and planning specialist Martin Leay discuss how this can be done in practical terms using examples of their many past successes of 'paragraph 79e' houses.

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  • NPPF Paragraph 80e Explained NPPF Paragraph 80e Explained

    NPPF Paragraph 80e Explained

    November 2021

    Many people, perhaps you, would love to build yourself a new house in the country where you could live with your family and work from home in rural tranquility. It is perhaps the English dream. The problem is getting planning permission. But don’t despair, NPPF paragraph 80e is the planning legislation which is specifically written to allow this to happen. The clause states that the new house has to be an ‘exceptional’ work of architecture and so it is not easy to get planning permission… but not impossible. In this video architect Francis Terry and planning specialist Martin Leay discuss how this can be done in practical terms using examples of their many past successes of ‘paragraph 80e’ houses.

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Podcasts

  • What Do You Need for a Career in Architecture

    27 July 2021

    An informal discussion between Francis Terry and his daughter Claudia about what is needed for a carrer in architecture.

  • The Traditional Architecture Group Discusses Ornament

    12 August 2020

    This is a zoom discussion about Ornament organised by the Traditional Architecture Group (TAG). The event was hosted by Francis Terry (the chairman of TAG) with guest speakers Svante Helmbaek Tirén, a renowned architecture theorist and Sandy Stoddart the great Scottish Neo-Classical sculptor. The discussion covers many aspects of ornament in architecture with valuable contributions from Robert Adam, Hugh Petter and George Saumarez Smith.

  • Palladio, Classical and Gothic Architecture

    29 March 2020

    An interview about architecture with Francis Terry by his son Alfred. The conversation meanders around from Palladio, to classical architecture, then on to gothic, ending with the philosophical question of what beauty is.

  • Discussion About Beauty and Architecture

    3 April 2021

    An informal discussion between Francis Terry and his son Alfred about beauty and architecture.

  • Proportion and Inspiration in Music and Architecture

    10 January 2021

    Francis Terry and his son Alfred talk about proportion and inspiration in music and architecture.

  • Francis Terry and Jeremy Musson Discuss Stowe House and Its Landscape Garden

    11 July 2020

    A discussion between architect Francis Terry and architecture historian Jeremy Musson about Stowe House and its seminal landscape gardens. Stowe has a special place in both their hearts as Francis was at school there and Jeremy was a trustee of the Stowe House Preservation Trust.