Nairn's Paris
Nairn's Paris
hardback
Published:
20 April, 2017
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781910749494 |
| ISBN10 | 1910749494 |
| Number Of Pages | 226 |
| Item Weight | 194 g |
| Product Dimensions | 120 x 190 x 17 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Notting Hill Editions |
| Format | hardback |
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"You could see that Nairn was made of equal parts of amiability and disagreeableness, that he could swoon, but only over the very finest things; that he could take joy in the most ordinary streetscape if it could be shown to make daily life better; and that he could always be counted on to prefer the work of an eccentric genius like Nicholas Hawksmoor over that of a sane and rational architect like Christopher Wren.”
-- Paul Goldberger * Books Every Architect Should Read *"It’s not easy to pigeonhole the late English writer Ian Nairn. But after reading his work you might rightly decide that there’s no need to do so. His rubric doesn’t matter because, whatever kind of writer he is, he follows his own meandering counsel, and the results are consistently brilliant.”
"To call Ian Nairn a great architectural writer is too restrictive; he was a great writer who happened to write about buildings and places….Cities change, but the quality of Nairn’s writing will always hold. He will take you to unexpected places, make you look at the familiar anew, or at least poke you into thinking about them again.”
-- N.J. McGarrigle * Irish Times *"As a guide to central Paris it would mostly still serve quite well."
-- Ian Brunskill * Times Literary Supplement *"In Nairn’s Paris the City of Light gets the flâneur it deserves: passionate, bilious, eloquently melancholy. This welcome and overdue re-issue compliments his masterpiece Nairn’s London, confirming his status as our best topographical writer. At his best he has no equal.
"Once you discover [Nairn] you want to read everything he’s written."
* Daily Telegraph *‘A guidebook to the city of love like no other.’
* The Connexion *GoodReads Reviews
Author's Bio
Ian Douglas Nairn (1930-1983) was a British architectural critic and topographer. He coined the term 'subtopia' for the areas around cities that had in his view been failed by urban planning, losing their individuality and spirit of place. Andrew Hussey is Professor of Cultural History at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He lives in Paris.