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Terms and conditions applyVisual Planning and the Picturesque
Nikolaus Pevsner and Mathew Aitchison
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Format: Book
Pages: 221
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Date Published: May 2010
Stock Code: 71750
ISBN: 9781606060018
Binding: Hardback
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This previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), one of the 20th century's most widely read scholars of art and architectural history, was begun in the mid-1940s. The 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, Visual Planning and the Picturesque comprises three parts. The first part analyses 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 19th century and, potentially, the 20th 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 idealise and exclude.
Nikolaus Pevsner was a German-born British scholar of the history of art and architecture best known for his 46 volume series of comprehensive county guides, The Buildings of England. He received a knighthood in 1969. Mathew Aitchison is a lecturer in architecture and urban design at Queen's University Belfast.
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