London 3: North West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (v. 3) [Hardcover]

Bridget Cherry (Author), Nikolaus Pevsner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 11, 1991 | Series: Pevsner Architectural Guides

This comprehensive architectural guide encompasses three centuries of metropolitan growth, spanning an area from Georgian St. Marylebone and the riverside terraces of Chelsea and Chiswick to Heathrow Airport and the outer fringes of Middlesex. Individual buildings to be explored range from homely medieval churches and farmhouses of once rural Middlesex villages to the stately Victorian cultural institutions which made South Kensington internationally famous. Country mansions of distinction - Burlington's Chiswick House, Soane's Pitshanger - still grace the outer areas, while from the last fifty years the varied and stimulating selection ranges from art deco factory and cinema to progressive social housing and the late-twentieth-century business park. A complete architectural guide to Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington & Chelsea, and Outer Westminster (St Marylebone and Paddington), this volume is fully illustrated with photographs, maps and plans.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"To historians and students and all who want to know a county in depth, the new editions form an essential encyclopedia; as Pevsner himself said when the first revisions came out, these are the ones to have." Andor Gomme, Times Literary Supplement --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Simon Bradley worked for the Historic Royal Palaces Agency begfore joining The Buildings of England. He has lectured on many aspects of the City of London, and is now starting work on a new volume on The City of Westminster to complete the London series. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 808 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (March 11, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300096526
• ISBN-13: 978-0300096521
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 4.8 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,001,209 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)