Nikolaus Pevsner

Details

Nationality

German-British

Notes

Author of Pioneers of the Modern Movement (1936, revised as Pioneers of Modern Design 1949). Launched the Pelican History of Art and the Buildings of England series (1951–74), making him the institutional architect of British architectural history.

Connections

• authored Pioneers of the Modern Movement: From William Morris to Walter Gropius
• influenced Reyner Banham

Sources

1. Pevsner. Pioneers of the Modern Movement: From William Morris to Walter Gropius. Faber & Faber, 1936.
2. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 5 of 22