Nikolaus Pevsner was a German-born British scholar of the history of art and architecture best known for his forty-six volume series of county architecture guides, The Buildings of England (1951-1974). Matthew Aitchison is a lecturer in architecture and urban design at Queen's University Belfast.
"A blend of pragmatism and nostalgia for an idealized landscape."--
"The Financial Times"
"Seeing the world through [Pevsner's] eyes is rewarding."--Building
Design
"The third [part of the book] collects Pevsner's attempts to apply
picturesque principles to modernist architecture, and the first is
a brilliant, hauntingly illustrated photo-essay on a select series
of streets, squares, and quadrangles in Oxford and London."--Icon
Magazine
"The three quite distinct parts of the revealed book show Pevsner
as guide, historian, and critic ... the cinematic passage of the
first part's pictures are a treat in themselves."--The Architect's
Journal
"Well worth reading."--The Times Literary Supplement
"A detailed and dense reminder of Pevsner's genius, wrapped up with
some beautiful images of bygone Britain."--Monocle Magazine
"A fascinating collection of thoughts by one of the twentieth
century's heroes of architectural thinking."--Urban Design
"The excellent introduction by John Macarthur and Mathew Aitchison
. . . contextualizes the manuscript with as much erudition as
insight."--The Architectural Review
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