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.
Ian Nairn was an architecture writer whose outspoken critique of banal postwar city planning, 'Outrage', first propelled him to fame. 'Nairn's London'...
'Without any doubt, London is one of the best cities in the world for modern architecture. But it is also one of the biggest cities in the world, and it does not make a display of its best things. A visitor looking for new buildings in the City and the West End might well be justified in turning away with a shudder. Yet delightful things may be waiting for him in Lewisham or St. Albans.' Ian Nairn, from the 'Foreword' to Modern Buildings in London. As one of the few architectural critics to eschew purely aesthetic modes of analysis, Ian Nairn's timeless books on modern urban cities have...
'Without any doubt, London is one of the best cities in the world for modern architecture. But it is also one of the biggest cities in the world, and ...
