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In 1955, Britain's most prestigious architectural magazine, The Architectural Review, published a special issue featuring a single essay by Ian Nairn, a famously opinionated (and untrained) architectural critic. Based on observations made on a journey Nairn took across the UK in a Morris Minor, Outrage is...
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Acclaimed critic Ian Nairn's masterpiece, reissued for the first time since 1955.
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In 1955, Britain's most prestigious architectural magazine, The Architectural Review, published a special issue featuring a single essay by Ian Nairn, a famously opinionated (and untrained) architectural critic. Based on observations made on a journey Nairn took across the UK in a Morris Minor, Outrage is a searing critique of urban sprawl, or 'Subtopia'.
In this manifesto, Nairn warns that 'if what is called development is allowed to multiply at the present rate', Britain's natural - and urban - landscapes will lose their individuality and spirit. A call-to-arms against the 'greying out' of our towns and countryside before it's too late, Outrage is widely considered to be Nairn's masterpiece.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781912559633
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 February 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Notting Hill Editions
Illustration: Black and white illustrations throughout
Contributors:
- Introduction by Travis Elborough
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 120.0mm
Height: 190.0mm
Weight: 238g
Pages: 196
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About the Author
Ian Nairn (1930-1983) was a British architectural critic and topographer who coined the term 'subtopia' for the areas around cities that had in his view been failed by urban planning. In the 1960s he contributed to the volumes on Surrey and Sussex in Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England series and published a number of his own books, including Nairn's Paris, Nairn's Towns and Modern Buildings in London, published by Notting Hill Editions. Travis Elborough is the author of many books, including The Long-Player Goodbye, Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles and Atlas of Vanishing Places, winner of Edward Stanford Travel Book Award in 2020.
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