Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was one of the twentieth century's most learned and stimulating writers on art and architecture. He established his reputation with Pioneers of Modern Design, though he is probably best known for his celebrated series of guides, The Buildings of England, acknowledged as one of the great achievements of twentieth-century scholarship. He was also founding editor of The Pelican History of Art, the most comprehensive and scholarly history of art ever published in English.
As a future architecture student at the university of Plymouth, owning this book means a lot to me.
It will act as a guide to historical buildings within the place that I will live. I can begin to understand the history, the narratives and motivations of those that lived in Plymouth and surrounding areas, before me.