Pevsner, Nikolaus
Pevsner's Townscape: Visual Planning and the Picturesque
- ISBN 13:
- 9781606060018
- author:
- Pevsner, Nikolaus
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Getty Publications
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2010
- Pages:
- 221
- Dimensions:
- 26.9 x 19.3 x 2 cm
- Genre:
- Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Nikolaus Pevsner's Townscape: On Visual Planning and the Picturesque presents a previously unpublished work by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, one of the twentieth-century's most widely read scholars of art and architectural history. Begun in the mid-1940s, this manuscript is an anomaly in his vast oeuvre of writings.
Assembled and annotated here, the book comprises three parts that analyze English planning tradition before 1800, survey English planning theory or the theory of the picturesque, and meditate on how these traditions shaped architecture and urban planning in England in the nineteenth century and potentially the twentieth as well.
The work is a fresh plea for a visual approach to urban design and common sense in architecture, seeking to incorporate and mediate rather than idealize and exclude. This comprehensive analysis offers valuable insights into the evolution of urban design and its relationship with aesthetics.
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