Visual Planning and the Picturesque

Informationen zum Autor Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was a German-born British scholar of the history of art and architecture best known for his forty-six-volume series of comprehensive county guides, The Buildings of England. Mathew Aitchison is a lecturer in architecture and urban design at Queen's University Belfast. Klappentext A previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner, much of which was published as journal articles in the Architectural Review in the 1940s and 1950s during Pevsner's term as editor. Zusammenfassung Analyses English planning tradition before 1800. This title surveys English planning theory or, by the author's description, the theory of the picturesque. It presents a meditation on how this tradition and this theory shaped architecture and urban planning in England in the 19th century and, potentially, the 20th as well.

Autorentext

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was a German-born British scholar of the history of art and architecture best known for his forty-six-volume series of comprehensive county guides, The Buildings of England. Mathew Aitchison is a lecturer in architecture and urban design at Queen's University Belfast.


Klappentext
A previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner, much of which was published as journal articles in the Architectural Review in the 1940s and 1950s during Pevsner's term as editor.


Zusammenfassung
Analyses English planning tradition before 1800. This title surveys English planning theory or, by the author's description, the theory of the picturesque. It presents a meditation on how this tradition and this theory shaped architecture and urban planning in England in the 19th century and, potentially, the 20th as well.

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