Nairn's London

AvIan Nairn

E-bok

Engelska, 2015

Del i serien Penguin Modern Classics

105 kr

Läs direkt i Bokus Reader – eller ladda ned till din enhet

Fler format och utgåvor

Häftad

133 kr

Beskrivning

TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014'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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-04-02
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780141396163
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd
Serie:Penguin Modern Classics

Utforska kategorier

Arkitekturhistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

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'.

Recensioner i media

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