Outrage - Couverture rigide

Nairn, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1912559633 ISBN 13 : 9781912559633

Editeur : Notting Hill Editions, 2025

Synopsis

A call-to-arms against the ‘greying out’ of our towns and countryside before it’s too late, Outrage is widely considered to be Nairn’s masterpiece.

In 1955, Britain’s most prestigious architectural magazine, The Architectural Review, published a special issue featuring a single essay by Ian Nairn, a famously opinionated (and untrained) architectural critic. Based on observations made on a journey Nairn took across the UK in a Morris Minor, Outrage is a searing critique of urban sprawl, or ‘Subtopia’.

In this manifesto, Nairn warns that ‘if what is called development is allowed to multiply at the present rate’, Britain’s natural – and urban – landscapes will lose their individuality and spirit. Black and white photographs throughout.

With an introduction by Travis Elborough

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À propos de l'auteur

Ian Nairn (1930-1983) was a British architectural critic and topographer who coined the term 'subtopia' for the areas around cities that had in his view been failed by urban planning, losing their individuality and spirit of place. In the 1960s he contributed to the volumes on Surrey and Sussex in Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England series and published a number of his own books, including Nairn's Paris and Nairn's Towns, both published by Notting Hill Editions.

Travis Elborough is the author of many books, including Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, The Long-Player Goodbye, Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles and Atlas of Vanishing Places, winner of Edward Stanford Travel Book Award in 2020.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Notting Hill Editions
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912559633
• ISBN 13: 9781912559633
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 196
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• Personne responsable: non disponible