Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner

The Architects' Journal;  September 9, 2004 ;   Powers, Alan;   708 words ......peace ALAN POWERS Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner Edited by Peter Draper. Ashgate, 2004. 262pp. 55 Nikolaus Pevsner was reassessed in 1977 when...contributors to Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner, the papers of a Birkbeck College...

Arts: The man who knew what he liked His `Buildings of Britain' series, 50...

The Independent - London;  May 28, 2001 ;   Ken Powell;   787 words ...The first volume of Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England - Cornwall...were all beginners at the job then," Pevsner admitted in a foreword to the second...the next 20 years, "BoE" dominated Pevsner's life (though he found time to teach...

Voice of a missionary

The Scotsman;  January 4, 2003 ;   Michael Pye;   787 words ...Pevsner on Art and Architecture...sharp, clever talks of Nikolaus Pevsner, when he calls the man...detect "fhrer-speak" when Pevsner diagnoses the cold, "totalitarian...age, despite the context (Pevsner is describing how "the...and the possibility that Pevsner was, at the time at ...

THE DOKTOR GOES FOR A DRIVE

The Independent - London;  March 9, 1997 ;   JONATHAN GLANCEY;   787 words ...Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the massively hard-working and hugely...son of a successful local businessman, Pevsner was a Russian Jew by background but a...than be sent to a concentration camp. Pevsner was, to say the least, highly educated...

A Nazi in England; The Arts: Sir Nikolaus Pevsner taught postwar England...

The Evening Standard (London, England);  November 18, 2002 ;   Games, Stephen;   787 words ...Byline: STEPHEN GAMES NIKOLAUS Pevsner's early work at the University of...as Chancellor on 30 January 1933, Pevsner's 31st birthday, and in March was...banning Jews from state employment and Pevsner among many others was put out of...

BOOK

The Architects' Journal;  January 31, 2008 ;   Harbison, Robert;   684 words ......reverence makes this revised Pevsner one of the best in the series...Worcestershire, by Alan Brooks and Nikolaus Pevsner. Yale. 846pp. 29.95 Worcestershire...revisers) to rethink even Nikolaus Pevsner's descriptions of medieval...no one in my gratitude to Pevsner, but I am not a ...

How they put new heart in the East; Writers following in Pevsner's...

The Evening Standard (London, England);  April 18, 2005 ;     787 words ......Cherry, Charles O'Brien and Nikolaus Pevsner (Yale University Press...ATTRIBUTION of part authorship to Nikolaus Pevsner himself is more an act of...Hardly a word remains of what Pevsner wrote about St Mary Magdalene...But it does suggest that Pevsner's heirs are, if you like...

Head to head: the poet & the realist; Stylistic cold wars - Betjeman...

The Birmingham Post (England);  July 22, 2000 ;   Edmonds, Richard;   677 words ......can be noisy. From the beginning Nikolaus Pevsner and John Betjeman were opposites...compassion and human sympathy. Pevsner, crop-headed and austere, could...historian when he arrived here in 1933. Pevsner supported minimalism in terms of...

Nikolaus Pevsner on Art and Architecture: the Radio Talks/Pevsner...

Visual Culture in Britain;  January 1, 2006 ;   Williams, Richard J;   787 words ...Nikolaus Pevsner on Art and Architecture: the Radio...6: Westminster by Simon Bradley and Nikolaus Pevsner, New Haven and London: Yale University...instructive, sometimes bracing, to read Nikolaus Pevsner again. His work no longer sits easily...

Taking the capital apart; LONDON 6: WESTMINSTER by Simon Bradley and...

The Evening Standard (London, England);  June 16, 2003 ;   Moore, Rowan;   519 words ......modern tourist guides describe. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's vision was different. In his...is a species of ant named after Pevsner, conferred by an entomologist who...houses and rural parish churches, Pevsner's approach works well. Applied...

BUILDING A LIBRARY: Nicholas Pevsner

The Independent on Sunday;  November 2, 2003 ;   Stephen Games;   641 words ......architectural historian and critic Sir Nikolaus Pevsner set out to catalogue every building...although Yale is rebranding them as Pevsner Architectural Guides, his authorship...Descriptions Act. To find out what Pevsner actually thought, go back to the...

Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius

The Architects' Journal;  August 9, 2005 ;   Parkyn, Neil;   514 words ......William Morris to Walter Gropius By Nikolaus Pevsner. Yale, 2005. 192pp. 19.95 For most of us, Nikolaus Pevsner will forever be associated with The...There's no mistaking the conviction of Pevsner's central thesis that 'the new style...

House hunting; Architectural guides; Pevsner's English buildings.(Books...

The Economist (US);  April 28, 2001 ;     679 words ......history. Nobody could have called Nikolaus Pevsner undirected. Had the phrase workaholic...countryside is a treacherous place. Pevsner, a funny foreigner in a shabby...advanced architects of his day, Pevsner in the 1960s played a significant...

An English gent . . . and no Nazi Ian Buruma on the German who did so much...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  December 15, 2002 ;   Ian Buruma;   787 words ...Pevsner on Art and Architecture: The Radio...book, there is no evidence that Nikolaus Pevsner was ever "a keen supporter of the...German Jews in the early 1930s, Pevsner wanted to believe things would...and all that. This didn't make Pevsner a Nazi, just a self-deluding Jew...

Pevsner guides to be expanded for anniversary

The Independent - London;  April 14, 2001 ;   Louise Jury Media Correspondent;   408 words ......summer will mark 50 years since the first of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's guides - to the counties of Cornwall, Nottinghamshire...whimsical fascination with Victorian Gothic. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was an academic, born in 1902 of Russian Jewish parents...