Why did the English Gothic Revival ignore continental architecture for so long? Horace Walpole used motifs from Rouen Cathedral at Strawberry Hill in the mid-eighteenth century, it is true, and James Wyatt drew on the Portuguese abbey of Batalha for part of Fonthill Abbey, but these were straws in a wind that did not blow with any force until around 1850. The shift towards continental Gothic at that time, associated with Ruskin and with Benjamin Webb, is well known. Yet the national monoculture that went before tends to be taken for granted, or to be overlooked in favour of the growth of Gothic archaeology or of the incipient ‘Battle of the Styles’. This Late Hanoverian concentration on home-grown Gothic is doubly surprising when compared with the increasingly plural classicism of the day, which embraced Greek, Roman, Italian Renaissance, Louis XIV, and even Egyptian variants. It will be argued here that this cordon sanitaire can be linked with two continuing beliefs, sometimes held together, sometimes separately: that Gothic was invented in England, and that it reached its purest or finest expression there.

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Today the Queen’s Chapel at St James’s Palace is cherished as perhaps the most intact of all Inigo Jones’s works, and one which, in the words of John Harris, ‘expresses more of the quintessential Jones than any other surviving building.’ Yet its status was long uncertain, and its importance was established beyond doubt only during the scholarly restoration begun in 1937. Few archaeologically informed restorations of English classical buildings had then been carried out, and the Office of Works had to tread carefully around the sensibilities of the Royal Household to get its own way in the matter. Work on the chapel was finished in 1951, since when its strange eclipse from notice has been generally forgotten.

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The ultimate goal is to develop an Executable Architecture for System Engineering, Modeling and Simulation across the Aerospace and Defense landscape using a consistent, open framework -for the benefit of users, suppliers and ourselves. In this presentation, Dr. Bradley will touch on the complexities that delivering large and complex systems bring to the Research & Development group within EADS, where the objective is to marry the various stakeholders, all of whom are buried deep in operation projects, to a consistent vision of where EADS wishes to go with regards to a common framework for its solution design. We will talk about the work done by EADS Innovation Works and the Defense & Communication Systems business unit to create an "Executable Architecture," allowing a set of open enterprise frameworks to co-exist. This will enable suppliers and tool set developers to ensure that the maximum amount of interoperability can be provided within the development cycle, from Requirements Capture, Design, Development and Production, with a single simulation backbone giving verification and validation throughout the chain on a single data model. Current architecture framework products support only static analysis. Objects and Relationships in static architecture products must be mapped to dynamic models to create executable architectures, which offer a means to conduct dynamic analysis of systems or capabilities described through an Integrated Architecture. The challenges include mapping and data transformation between tools, capturing sufficient representation of system and operational environment in executable architectures, and collecting appropriate data to populate activities in executable architectures.Simon Bradley is the Vice President, Engineering, Physics, IT Security Services and Simulation at EADS Innovation Works. As head of a technical research division, he focuses on security, information technology, systems/ software engineering, multi-physics modeling and the use of simulation with a team of 150 people, based in six countries, ranging from PhD students to world renowned experts in their respective fields. He works closely with organizations around the world to look at using simulation and technology innovations to help governments, regional organizations and aid agencies to cope with the effects of geological and environmental change. Bradley is currently responsible for reviewing the long-term research work required for EADS to continue its growth in the homeland security market, which is being done through expansion into the UK and US markets.