Visual Planning and the Picturesque - Couverture rigide

Pevsner, .

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1606060015 ISBN 13 : 9781606060018

Editeur : Getty Research Institute,U.S., 2010

Synopsis

"If the whole of a town is in the end not visually pleasing, the town is not worth having."
-Sir Nikolaus Pevsner

Pevsner's Townscape presents a previously unpublished work by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), one of the twentieth-century's most widely read scholars of art and architectural history.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 propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Getty Research Institute,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1606060015
• ISBN 13: 9781606060018
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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