Visual Planning and the Picturesque | Buch

Cover: 9781606060018 | Visual Planning and the Picturesque | Nikolaus Pevsner | Buch | 2010

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A previously unpublished work by one of the most important architectural historians of the twentieth century

"If the whole of a town is in the end not visually pleasing, the town is not worth having."
>Pevsner's Townscape presents a previously unpublished work by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), one of the twentieth-century's most widely read scholars of art and architectural history. Begun in the mid-1940s, Pevsner's unfinished manuscript is something of an anomaly in his vast oeuvre of writings in so far as it sought to complement the body of thought emerging in postwar Britain that was concerned with urban design, generally referred to as "Townscape."

As assembled and annotated here, Pevsner's Townscape: On Visual Planning and the Picturesque comprises three parts. The first part analyzes English planning tradition before 1800. The second surveys English planning theory or, by Pevsner's lights, the theory of the picturesque. The third part is essentially a meditation on how this tradition and this theory shaped architecture and urban planning in England in the nineteenth century and, potentially, the twentieth as well. The work as a whole is a surprisingly fresh plea for a visual approach to urban design and common sense in architecture, one that sought to incorporate and mediate, rather than idealize and exclude.

A previously unpublished work by one of the most important architectural historians of the twentieth century

"If the whole of a town is in the end not visually pleasing, the town is not worth having."
>Pevsner's Townscape presents a previously unpublished work by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), one of the twentieth-century's most widely read scholars of art and architectural history. Begun in the mid-1940s, Pevsner's unfinished manuscript is something of an anomaly in his vast oeuvre of writings in so far as it sought to complement the body of thought emerging in postwar Britain that was concerned with urban design, generally referred to as "Townscape."

As assembled and annotated here, Pevsner's Townscape: On Visual Planning and the Picturesque comprises three parts. The first part analyzes English planning tradition before 1800. The second surveys English planning theory or, by Pevsner's lights, the theory of the picturesque. The third part is essentially a meditation on how this tradition and this theory shaped architecture and urban planning in England in the nineteenth century and, potentially, the twentieth as well. The work as a whole is a surprisingly fresh plea for a visual approach to urban design and common sense in architecture, one that sought to incorporate and mediate, rather than idealize and exclude.

Über den 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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Architektur
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781606060018
ISBN-10:	1606060015
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Pevsner, Nikolaus
Redaktion:	Aitchison, Matthew
Hersteller:	Getty Publications
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	277 x 197 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Nikolaus Pevsner
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.05.2010
Gewicht:	0,954 kg

Artikel-ID: 132514011