Except the Cities of London and Westminster (v. 2) (The Buildings of England) - Softcover

Pevsner, Nikolaus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014071006X ISBN 13: 9780140710069

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1969

Synopsis

This comprehensive architectural guide encompasses three centuries of metropolitan growth, spanning an area from Georgian St. Marylebone and the riverside terraces of Chelsea and Chiswick to Heathrow Airport and the outer fringes of Middlesex. Individual buildings to be explored range from homely medieval churches and farmhouses of once rural Middlesex villages to the stately Victorian cultural institutions which made South Kensington internationally famous. Country mansions of distinction - Burlington's Chiswick House, Soane's Pitshanger - still grace the outer areas, while from the last fifty years the varied and stimulating selection ranges from art deco factory and cinema to progressive social housing and the late-twentieth-century business park. A complete architectural guide to Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington & Chelsea, and Outer Westminster (St Marylebone and Paddington), this volume is fully illustrated with photographs, maps and plans.

About this title

Review:

"The greatest endeavour of popular architectural scholarship in the world." -- Jonathan Meades, The Observer, 25th November 2001.

About the Author:

SIR NIKOLAUS PEVSNER (1902-83), one of the most learned and stimulating twentieth-century writers on art and architecture, founded the Buildings of England series in 1951, and was the founding editor of The Pelican History of Art and The Buildings of Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

SIMON BRADLEY worked for the Historic Royal Palaces Agency before joining The Buildings of England. He is now starting work on a new City of Westminster volume to complete the London series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 014071006X
• ISBN 13: 9780140710069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496