Nairn's London

ISBN-13: 9780141396156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str.

Ian Nairn

Opis

Ian Nairn was an architecture writer whose outspoken critique of banal postwar city planning, 'Outrage', first propelled him to fame. 'Nairn's London', written a decade later, was his idiosyncratic, highly personal love letter to the London and its buildings, 'a record of what has moved me', as he put it, 'between Uxbridge and Dagenham', from well-known monuments such as Westminster Abbey to railway stations, synagogues, a timber merchants, a gas board building and 27 different pubs.

Recenzje

A masterpiece ... Nairn was a poet ... Nairn's London belongs to no genre save its own, it is of a school of one ... There is barely a page which does not contain some startling turn of phrase Jonathan Meades

O autorze

Ian Nairn (1930-1983) was a hugely influential and pugnacious architectural critic, inventor of the crushing term 'subtopia' and central to the growth of the British conservation movement. He co-wrote with Nikolaus Pevsner the Sussex volume in the Buildings of England series. London was his great obsession and Nairn's London his lasting monument. He once paid his wife the compliment of stating that she 'would certainly have been in Nairn's London had she only been made of brick or stucco'.