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1	The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture: Fifth Edition more books like this by John Fleming, Hugh Honour, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist Need a handbook to your architect's business or studies? Struggling with your latest DIY project? Interested in the art of architecture? This classic work, now in its fifth edition, covers every aspect of architecture and landscape architecture. Ranging from ancient times to contemporary trends, it adopts a truly international perspective, ... see all copies from £4.35! new only from £9.66!
2	An outline of European architecture more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist One of the most widely read boks on European architecture, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work was first published in 1942. Through several revisions and updates during Pevsner's lifetime, it continued to be a seminal essay on the subject, and even after his death, it remains as stimulating as it was back in the mid-twentieth century. Sir Nikolaus ... see all copies from £1.32! new only from £17.95! \| first editions
3	Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist This is a book on artists and architects from Britain, USA and Europe and how the best remains today where laid by a small group of people who thought and taught as well as designed. see all copies from £1.32! new only from £9.52! \| first editions
4	The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design see all copies from £1.33! new only from £6.01! \| first editions
5	Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius; Revised and Expanded Edition more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Richard Weston (Introduction by) add to wishlist One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936. This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing Pevsner's illuminating account of the roots of ... see all copies from £7.17! new only from £7.17!
6	A History of Building Types more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist Why does the Hilton Hotel look different from a coaching inn - because of changes in architectural taste or changes in the hotel business? The study of building types is a history of institutions - official, social and commercial; of their changing architectural requirements; and of the way in which these requirements have been met. The building ... see all copies from £7.93! new only from £24.21! \| first editions
7	Sussex by Ian Narin, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist Sussex turns away from nearby London, towards the sea and the massive ridge of the South Downs. Its coastal resorts are particularly distinguished, nowhere more so than at Brighton where Nash's orientalising Pavilion sets the tone. Elsewhere castles and fortified town walls along the coast attest to Sussex's military past; Chichester cathedral and ... see all copies from £15.13! new only from £23.11! \| first editions
8	County Durham, Second Edition by Elizabeth Williamson, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist The premier monument is Durham Cathedral, greatest of English Norman churches. Lovers of the Middle Ages will also seek out the county's exceptional Anglo-Saxon churches, while many of its great castles - Brancepeth, Raby, Auckland, Lambton - conceal palatial Georgian and Victorian interiors. The landscape varies dramatically, from the wilds of ... see all copies from £16.48! new only from £16.48!
9	Dictionary of Architecture, the Penguin: Fifth Edition more books like this by John Fleming, Nikolaus Pevsner, Hugh Honour add to wishlist Extended to include recent developments in the field of landscape architecture, this text takes full account of the significant recent work in a huge range of building traditions around the world. see all copies from £7.90! new only from £77.95! \| first editions
10	London 4: North more books like this by Bridget Cherry, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist This essential volume on London architecture covers the boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey and Islington. Bridget Cherry gives an enlightening view of London's expansion northward from formal Georgian squares, to the hill towns of Hampstead and Highgate, from the regenerated industrial areas of Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to ... see all copies from £24.82! new only from £26.01! \| first editions
11 view cover	Dictionary of Architecture, the Penguin: Fourth Edition more books like this by John Fleming, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Hugh Honour add to wishlist The definitions and terminology used in this book attempt to relate to the architectural terms used in professional practice. see all copies from £1.32!
12 view cover	Northumberland more books like this by Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist The county's remarkable and richly varied military architecture, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln or standing proudly by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. Newcastle upon Tyne has the most elegant nineteenth-century city centre in England. Elsewhere the ... see all copies from £5.32! new only from £67.25! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt c. 300 BC to Ad 700 more books like this by Judith McKenzie, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (Editor) add to wishlist This masterful history of the monumental architecture of Alexandria, as well as the rest of Egypt, encompasses an entire millennium, from the city's founding by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. to the years just after the Islamic conquest of A.D. 642. Long considered lost beyond recall, the architecture of ancient Alexandria has until now remained ... see all copies from £46.00! new only from £46.00!
14 view cover	Worcestershire more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist This comprehensive guide to the buildings of Worcestershire is fully revised and expanded from the first edition of 1968. The county extends from the dramatic Malvern Hills through the Severn Valley to the fringes of the Cotswolds, with architecture no less rich than the landscape. Medieval Worcestershire is represented by the fine Gothic ... see all copies from £9.54! new only from £19.89! \| first editions
15 view cover	Yorkshire, the West Riding. more books like this by Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist see all copies from £16.15! first editions
16	Pioneers of Modern Design: 2from William Morris to Walter Gropius more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist see all copies from £1.32! new only from £16.45! \| first editions
17 view cover	North Somerset and Bristol more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist "Somerset is a serene county, varied in mood more than most, yet always mild", wrote Pevsner, drawing attention to its freedom from the extremes of its neighbouring counties. Highlights of this volume are a full account of the Georgian marvels of Bath, and a separate section on the port of Bristol, whose sumptuous Victorian commercial buildings ... see all copies from £6.58! new only from £23.07! \| first editions
18 view cover	Cheshire, more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist For the architectural tourist, one of Cheshire's greatest and most characteristic delights is the use of timber. Little Moreton Hall has the most elaborate, fantastical and wholeheartedly vulgar display of black-&-white timbering that England has to offer, while the churches include an array of fine late medieval roofs. Chester, whose famous 'rows ... see all copies from £9.54! new only from £23.11! \| first editions
19	Dictionary of Arch more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Hugh Honour, John Fleming add to wishlist see all copies from £5.94! new only from £8.43! \| first editions
20 view cover	Herefordshire more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist "Not a mile visually unrewarding or painful" Pevsner wrote of this attractive rolling county on the borders of Wales, studded with red sandstone churches and appealing villages of timber-framed and brick houses. There is a rich medieval legacy, from tiny county churches with the distinctive wiry Norman sculpture of the 'Herefordshire school', to ... see all copies from £11.06! new only from £16.48! \| first editions
21 view cover	Cumberland and Westmorland more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist The well-loved Lake District makes up only part of a wild and spacious county, a poetic setting for exceptionally rich Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon monuments. Carlisle Cathedral and Lanercost Priory represent Northern Gothic, while castles such as Naworth and Appleby developed into fine houses which, in their style and decoration, show a rugged ... see all copies from £9.78! new only from £23.11! \| first editions
22	Dictionary of Architecture, the Penguin more books like this by John Fleming, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Hugh Honour add to wishlist see all copies from £1.32! first editions
23 view cover	Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist The varied architecture of this east Midland area ranges from the Norman glory of Peterborough cathedral and notable Early English churches to many fine Elizabethan and Jacobean mansions. The finest of these is Houghton House but the most spectacular is Burghley, of palatial proportions in a perfect landscape setting by Capability Brown. Southill ... see all copies from £14.30! new only from £23.11! \| first editions
24 view cover	London 3: North West more books like this by Bridget Cherry, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £12.79! new only from £26.47! \| first editions
25	South and West Somerset more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist see all copies from £8.36! new only from £19.81! \| first editions

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