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Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner
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The Architects' Journal
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September 9, 2004
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Keeping the peace ALAN POWERS Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner Edited by Peter Draper. Ashgate, 2004. 262pp. £55
Nikolaus Pevsner was reassessed in 1977 when David Watkin, his former doctoral student, published Morality and Architecture. Even those who have never read the book will know that the first half, reviewing architectural theory after Pugin, is merely the prelude to an extended critique of Pevsner's work. Basing his argument on Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historicism, Watkin's main complaint is that Pevsner greatly exaggerated the importance of the Zeitgeist or spirit of the age, with the result that his judgement in certain areas became unreliable, and his master narratives ...
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