Nairn's London - Ian Nairn

Nairn's London

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
368 Seiten
2014
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-139615-6 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
Presents a subjective meditation on a city and its buildings including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs.
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'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.'

Nairn's London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation on a city and its buildings. Including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs, it is a portrait of the soul of a place, from a writer of genius.

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'.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.11.2014
Reihe/Serie Penguin Modern Classics
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 111 x 181 mm
Gewicht 238 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Europa
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 0-14-139615-6 / 0141396156
ISBN-13 978-0-14-139615-6 / 9780141396156
Zustand Neuware
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