Pevsner
Americannoun
noun
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Antoine (ɑ̃twan). 1886–1962, French constructivist sculptor and painter, born in Russia; brother of Naum Gabo
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Sir Nikolaus (ˈnɪkəlaʊs). 1902–83, British architectural historian, born in Germany: his series Buildings of England (1951–74) describes every structure of account in the country
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It's at Matlock Bath that I meet architectural historian Clare Hartwell, who has just finished revising the 1951 Pevsner guide to Derbyshire.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2017
The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner called the Brownian landscape park “England’s greatest contribution to the visual arts.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2016
In 1958, the poet Sir John Betjeman and the architecture guru Nikolaus Pevsner set up the Victorian Society to save the glories of the age from destruction.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2013
When Nikolaus Pevsner visited Welbeck Abbey in 1950, it was used by an army college.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2012
A comprehensively informed, exhaustively organized scholar, who taught at both Cambridge and Oxford, Pevsner supervised and contributed to a multivolume history of world art.
From Time Magazine Archive
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