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Nikolaus Pevsner

April 2020

  • German-born art and architecture historian Nikolaus Pevsner, 1954.

    From the Guardian archive
    A day with Nikolaus Pevsner: 'it always pays to go the wrong way' - archive, 1960

    21 April 1960 Pevsner, and his wife, Lola, carry out research in Norfolk for the 23rd volume of his Buildings of England guide series

June 2018

  • Peter Gordon

    Other lives
    Peter Gordon obituary

    Other lives: Author and a professorof history and humanities at the Institute of Education, London

November 2014

  • Panoramic view inside Newcastle Central Station on the East Coast Main Line.

    Just the ticket: the joy of England’s railway stations

    The story of the English railway station since its Victorian heyday is that of a distinctively creative free-for-all, writes Rowan Moore

August 2012

  • Border Mires, ancient peat bogs in Northumberland and Cumbria

    The Northerner
    A tale of two bogs

    One is being nursed expensively and carefully back to muddy health. The other faces threats because of the demands of game hunters and grouse

February 2012

  • chastleton House

    360 degree buildings
    10: The long gallery, Chastleton House, Moreton-in-Marsh, 1607-1612

    Rowan Moore, introduces a spectacular interactive 360-degree panoramic view of this classic example of the Jacobean long gallery

December 2011

  • Lincoln Cathedral

    360 degree buildings
    9: Lincoln Cathedral

    Rowan Moore introduces an interactive 360-degree photograph of the cathedral so admired by Nikolaus Pevsner

September 2011

  • Response
    Don't ignore Britain's pre-Christian architecture

    Ed Frith
  • Nikolaus Pevsner

    Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life by Susie Harries - review

August 2011

  • Nikolaus Pevsner in 1974

    Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life by Susie Harries – review

    A towering account of the German-born scholar who chronicled England's most significant buildings is no more than he deserves, writes George Walden

July 2010

  • Response
    Though I didn't have his diaries, my biography of Nikolaus Pevsner is still reliable

    Stephen Games
    Response: My sources are legitimate. I've interviewed those who knew him and accessed his archive, says Stephen Games

December 2003

  • Constructed 1902. Unique

    Paul Kennedy salutes Nikolaus Pevsner, the most laconic, incisive judge of British architecture

July 2003

  • French are the windows

    Nikolaus Pevsner may be long gone but, thanks to Simon Bradley, his diligently revised architectural guide is very much alive, says Alan Hollinghurst

December 2002

  • Pevsner a Nazi? Don't be so ridiculous

    Britain's foremost architectural historian survives a scurrilous attack made against him in Stephen Games's introduction to Pevsner on Art and Architecture, thanks to his own words

November 2002

  • Pevsner was not a Nazi

    The Manchester Guardian was the first national newspaper to print the name of Nikolaus Pevsner (Was Pevsner a Nazi?, G2, November 20).

June 2001

  • I say, what a lovely building!

    Nikolaus Pevsner did more than anyone to shape the way the British view their architecture. Charlotte Higgins celebrates 50 years of his guides.

March 2000

  • Come friendly bombs and fall on Pevsner

    Timothy Mowl's Stylistic Cold Wars examines the prickly relationship between John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner, but was there ever real conflict?

November 1998

  • The guide of guides

    Last week, three weighty copies of London 4: North landed on my desk for review. This is the latest in the long line of architectural guides to The Buildings Of England, 49 to date, nominally co-written by the late Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83), an architectural historian who has become a household name among the great British church-crawling classes.

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