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‘Varying with reason’: Inigo Jones’s theory of design

Inigo Jones’s architectural theory has attracted much scholarly comment over the past forty years. According to the most widely accepted interpretation of his theory, Jones was a Platonist, who believed that architecture should embody perfect geometrical or numerical forms to reflect the harmonious structure of the cosmos. According to this view, Jones’s design method was strictly rational and mathematical. Plans and elevations were generated on a modular system to incorporate harmonic ratios, so that the building was ‘an organic whole, completely definable in terms of metrical relationships’. Jones’s inventive handling of Italian Renaissance architectural forms and his studious imitation of classical Roman detail were both thought to be subject to the same rigorous metrical discipline, which was ‘founded on the metaphysical belief in the universal efficacy of number’.