Pevsner, Nairn and Chichester: revising 'The Buildings of England'
The lecture would deal with the Buildings of England project as a whole since its foundation by the art and architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner in the 1940s; the two editions of Sussex/ West Sussex (1965 and 2019); and in particular my part in the revision of the Chichester article, which was originally written chiefly by Ian Nairn, the crusading architectural journalist of the 1950s and 60s.
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The lecture would deal with the Buildings of England project as a whole since its foundation by the art and architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner in the 1940s; the two editions of Sussex/ West Sussex (1965 and 2019); and in particular my part in the revision of the Chichester article, which was originally written chiefly by Ian Nairn, the crusading architectural journalist of the 1950s and 60s.