Ian Douglas Nairn (24 August 1930 – 14 August 1983) was a British architectural critic who coined the word "Subtopia" to indicate drab suburbs that look...
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in London' by architectural scholar Guy Williams. Architectural critic Ian Nairn wrote of the house, "If you want a definition of western civilization...
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the Gothic styles, and has been described by the architectural critic Ian Nairn as "the most typical English Cathedral". Despite this, Chichester has...
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exceptional interest), it has been described by architectural critic Ian Nairn as reflecting "the equivocal taste of the 1790s as well as anywhere in...
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Nairn's London is a 1966 book about the architecture of London. It is authored by British writer Ian Nairn and this is the work for which he is the best...
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Suffolk – see Superseded and unpublished volumes. First published as Sussex Ian Nairn was only indirectly involved in the text under revision in this volume...
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Encyclopaedia (1983 ed.). Macmillan. p. 729. ISBN 0-333-57688-8. Ian Nairn, Nairn's London (Harmondsworth, Middlesex.: Penguin, 1966), pp.161-2 Wikimedia...
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Mary's own original style". Other responses have been less positive. Ian Nairn, in the 1971 Surrey volume of the Buildings of England series, described...
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Australian politician Ian Nairn (1930–1983), British architectural critic James Nairn (1859–1904), Scottish painter Kristian Nairn (b. 1975), an actor and...
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by Decimus Burton), was described by 20th century architecture critic Ian Nairn as 'a definition of Western civilization in a single view'. Burton also...
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Cathedral, New Holland (2002), ISBN 1-84330-120-2 Nikolaus Pevsner and Ian Nairn, Buildings of England: Sussex, Penguin Books (1965) (now published by...
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(CIJ) Oswald Mosley, British Union of Fascists leader – Dolphin Square Ian Nairn, architectural critic – 14 Warwick Square Bill Nighy, actor Laurence Olivier...
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Britain. In his 1966 guide to London's buildings, the architectural critic Ian Nairn said of it, "miss the Tower of London if you have to, but don't miss this"...
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ritzy mews". The architectural critic Ian Nairn described the mews it as "a cathedral among mewses (sic)". The actor Ian Holm was a former resident of the...
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gothic, displays a good deal of eccentricity and mixes many styles". Ian Nairn, the main author of the Surrey Pevsner, wrote of Barry's Tudor Revival...
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Bradt, p. 202, ISBN 9781841621937 "Bermondsey Photographs: The strange tale of Cardinal Cap Alley". Nairn, Ian (1966) Nairn's London, Penguin Books v t e...
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Activity space Place identity Place attachment Topophilia Yi-Fu Tuan Ian Nairn Marc Augé Jane Jacobs Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge...
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Tower and five acres purchased". The Times. No. 43297. London. p. 13. Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England - Surrey, Penguin, 1962 Historic...
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terminus of the preserved line. Ian Nairn visited the station three years after its closing in his 1972 programme Nairn Across Britain: From Leeds into...
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design was to make it the Barbican of the south. Architecture critic Ian Nairn praised Eros House (Owen Luder, 1962) as: A monster sat down in Catford...
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Bridge". BBC News. BBC. 13 June 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2012. Nairn, Ian (1970), Nairn's Europe: Newcastle - Aarhus, Newcastle: BBC Hough, Andrew (29 June...
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son Decimus Burton, was described by 20th century architectural critic Ian Nairn as 'a definition of Western civilization in a single view'. Burton also...
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beauty far greater than was ever theirs in the days of its newness". Ian Nairn, Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry, in the 1971 revised Surrey Pevsner...
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London: Cassell Publishers Ltd. p. 133. ISBN 0-304-31561-3. Nairn, Ian (1966). Nairn's London (first ed.). Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0141396156. "Tube...
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Fitzroy Robinson & Partners. Commenting in 1971, architectural historians Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner stated that "most of the architectural details are...
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further fourteen having their statuses upgraded. The architectural critic Ian Nairn wrote of Lutyen's Surrey "masterpieces" in the 1971 Surrey volume of the...
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Major: The Autobiography. Harper Collins. pp. 50–1. Nikolaus Pevsner; Ian Nairn; Bridget Cherry (1971). Surrey. The Buildings of England (revised ed.)...
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Institute of British Architects, RIBA. Following in the footsteps of Ian Nairn he made a series of four films, Outrage Revisited (2010) on the banality...
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in Britain and Ireland[dead link] The Buildings of England: Sussex – Ian Nairn, Nikolaus Pevsner Stephen Bamber. "Southover Church Website – Who We Were"...
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church has fragments of medieval wall paintings. Architectural historian Ian Nairn comments that the Jacobean pulpit is "notable in a county which is poor...
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