portada Visual Planning and the Picturesque (en Inglés)

Visual Planning and the Picturesque (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Nikolaus Pevsner

Ilustrado por

Matthew Aitchison

Editorial

Getty Research Institute

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

232

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

27.2x19.6x2 cm

Peso

0.98 kg.

ISBN

9781606060018

ISBN13

9781606060018

Categorías

Arquitectura: edificios públicos
Urbanismo y urbanización: aspectos arquitectónicos

Visual Planning and the Picturesque (en Inglés)

Nikolaus Pevsner (Autor) · Matthew Aitchison (Ilustrado por) · Getty Research Institute · Tapa Dura

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 -Sir Nikolaus Pevsner Pevsner's Townscape presents a previously unpublished work by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), one of the twentieth-century's most widely read scholars of art and architectural history.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