36-567: The Towers can refer to: United Kingdom [ edit ] The Towers (Manchester) , a 20th-century research facility The Towers (Sheffield) , a small country house in Sheffield United States [ edit ] The Towers (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey) , on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) The Towers (Narragansett, Rhode Island) , on
72-692: A blue plaque was erected by English Heritage at Wildwood Terrace, Pevsner's home since 1936. In 1984, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles acquired the Nikolaus Pevsner Papers, an archive that includes 143 boxes of typed and handwritten notes, clippings, photographs, books, lecture notes, and manuscripts. Research notes by Pevsner (and other editors) for the Buildings of England series are held in
108-588: A buyer of modern textiles, glass and ceramics for the Gordon Russell furniture showrooms in London. By this time Pevsner had also completed Pioneers of the Modern Movement: from William Morris to Walter Gropius , his influential pre-history of what he saw as Walter Gropius ' dominance of contemporary design. Pioneers ardently championed Gropius's first two buildings (both pre–First World War) on
144-578: A lifelong interest in Victorian architecture, also influenced by the Architectural Review , appeared in a series written under the pseudonym of "Peter F. R. Donner": Pevsner's "Treasure Hunts" guided readers down selected London streets, pointing out architectural treasures of the 19th century. He was also closely involved with the Review ' s proprietor, H. de C. Hastings , in evolving
180-458: A million copies. In 1942 Pevsner finally secured two regular positions. From 1936 onwards he had been a frequent contributor to the Architectural Review and from 1943 to 1945 he stood in as its acting editor while the regular editor J. M. Richards was on active service. Under the AR ' s influence, Pevsner's approach to modern architecture became more complex and more moderate. Early signs of
216-548: A tidal canal, with no locks and a deepened channel into Manchester; Williams was in favour of a series of locks. Both engineers were invited to submit proposals, and Williams' plans were selected to form the basis of a bill submitted to Parliament in November 1882. Due to the intense opposition by Liverpool and the railway companies, the necessary enabling Act of Parliament was not passed until 6 August 1885. Certain conditions were attached: £5 million had to be raised, and
252-550: Is a Grade II* listed building in the suburb of Didsbury , located 6 miles (10 km) south of the centre of Manchester , England . The building was constructed in the period 1868–72, for an estimated cost of £50,000. The house was designed by Thomas Worthington , for the editor and proprietor of the Manchester Guardian , John Edward Taylor . The building was described by Pevsner as "grossly picturesque in red brick and red terra cotta." The Towers
288-551: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Towers (Manchester) The Towers (later known as the Shirley Institute , and then the BTTG ) is a research establishment for new technologies in cotton production. The Shirley Institute was established in 1920 at a cost of £ 10,000 to accommodate the newly formed British Cotton Industry Research Association . It
324-470: Is no longer topical. Although Pevsner oversaw the publication of the initial volumes of the Scottish, Welsh and Irish counterparts of The Buildings of England (and in each was credited as "Editor-in-Chief", "Founding Editor" and "Editorial Adviser" respectively) he did not write any of them. As with the revisions of his earlier works, many of these volumes were the work of several contributors. Coverage of
360-672: The Buildings of England series began in 1945, and the first volume was published in 1951. Pevsner wrote 32 of the books himself and 10 with collaborators, with a further four of the original series written by others. Since his death, work has continued on the series, which has been extended to cover the rest of the United Kingdom, under the title Pevsner Architectural Guides , now published by Yale University Press . After updating and correcting London 1: The Cities of London and Westminster for its reissue in 1962, Pevsner delegated
396-662: The King Penguin series , to suggest ideas for future publications, he proposed a series of comprehensive county guides to rectify this shortcoming. "The volumes of the Buildings of England—and now Scotland, Wales and Ireland as well—will be written by, revised and expanded by others, but they will always be known as 'Pevsners'. They are his memorial" — Gavin Stamp in The Spectator 's obituary of Pevsner Work on
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#1732793418294432-713: The University of Birmingham , found for him by friends in Birmingham and partly funded by the Academic Assistance Council . A study of the role of the designer in the industrial process, the research produced a generally critical account of design standards in Britain which he published as An Enquiry into Industrial Art in England (Cambridge University Press, 1937). He was subsequently employed as
468-823: The English national character. His A. W. Mellon lectures in Fine Art at the National Gallery of Art , Washington, D.C., were published in 1976 as A History of Building Types . Pevsner was a founding member in 1957 of the Victorian Society , the national charity for the study and protection of Victorian and Edwardian architecture and other arts. In 1964 he was invited to become its chairman, and steered it through its formative years, fighting alongside John Betjeman , Hugh Casson and others to save houses, churches, railway stations and other monuments of
504-801: The NRHP The Towers (Newport News, Virginia) , a public housing project The Towers (Ohio State) , twin towers used a dormitories on the main campus of Ohio State University Canada [ edit ] The Towers (Canada) , a mountain on the Continental Divide and on the border of British Columbia and Alberta in the Canadian Rockies See also [ edit ] The Tower (disambiguation) Tower (disambiguation) (includes "Towers") All pages with titles beginning with The Towers All pages with titles containing The Towers Topics referred to by
540-691: The Victorian age. He served for ten years (1960–70) as a member of the National Advisory Council on Art Education (or Coldstream Committee), campaigning for art history to be a compulsory element in the curriculum of art schools. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1965 and awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1967. Having assumed British citizenship in 1946, Pevsner
576-626: The building be named after his daughter, Shirley. In the early 21st century, the estate land of the Shirley Institute was redeveloped and a new business park was constructed. Italics denote building under construction Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner CBE FBA (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74). Nikolaus Pevsner
612-571: The daughter of distinguished Leipzig lawyer Alfred Kurlbaum. He worked as an assistant keeper at the Dresden Gallery between 1924 and 1928. He converted from Judaism to Lutheranism early in his life. During this period he became interested in establishing the supremacy of German modernist architecture after becoming aware of Le Corbusier 's Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau at the Paris Exhibition of 1925 . In 1928, he contributed
648-486: The early Hitler regime . However, due to Nazi race laws he was forced to resign his lectureship at Göttingen in 1933. His first intention was to move to Italy, but after failing to find an academic post there, Pevsner moved to England in 1933, settling in Hampstead at 2, Wildwood Terrace , where poet Geoffrey Grigson was his next-door neighbour at No. 3. Pevsner's first post was an 18-month research fellowship at
684-469: The early hours of the morning to take [him] ... I managed, clutching my pyjama trousers, to catch them up with the best parting present I could quickly think of, which was an elegant little edition, a new edition, of Shakespeare's Sonnets ." Pevsner was released after three months on the intervention of, among others, Frank Pick , then Director-General of the Ministry of Information . He spent some time in
720-597: The first of several broadcasts on the BBC Third Programme , presenting nine talks in all up to 1950, examining painters and European art eras. By 1977 he had presented 78 talks for the BBC, including the Reith Lectures in 1955 – a series of six broadcasts, entitled The Englishness of English Art , for which he explored the qualities of art which he regarded as particularly English, and what they said about
756-691: The following observation is made by Pevsner on the boat to Dover in October 1933: "The second-class is almost entirely occupied by non- Aryans . Dreadful, dreadful – to think that's where I belong." Nonetheless, he was included in the Nazi Black Book as someone hostile to the Hitler regime. In 1940, Pevsner was taken to the internment camp at Huyton , Liverpool as an enemy alien . Geoffrey Grigson later wrote in his Recollections (1984): "When at last two hard-faced Bow Street runners arrived in
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#1732793418294792-495: The foundation of Pevsner's career in England as an architectural historian. Since its first publication by Faber & Faber in 1936, it has gone through several editions and been translated into many languages. The English-language edition has also been renamed Pioneers of Modern Design . Pevsner was " more German than the Germans " to the extent that he supported " Goebbels in his drive for 'pure' non-decadent German art". He
828-405: The grounds that they summed up all the essential goals of 20th-century architecture; in England, however, it was widely taken to be the history of England's contribution to international modernism, and a manifesto for Bauhaus (i.e. Weimar ) modernism, which it was not. In spite of that, the book remains an important point of reference in the teaching of the history of modern design, and helped lay
864-522: The magazine's theories on picturesque planning. In the same year Pevsner was appointed a part-time lecturer at Birkbeck College , London; he would eventually retire from the college in 1969 as its first Professor of Art History. He lectured at Cambridge University for almost 30 years, having been Slade Professor of Fine Art there for a record six years from 1949 to 1955, and was also the Slade Professor at Oxford in 1968. Framing all this
900-697: The memorial address being given by Alec Clifton-Taylor , a friend of 50 years. He is buried in the churchyard of the Church of St Peter, Clyffe Pypard , in Wiltshire , where he and Lola had a cottage. His elder son, Dieter, was an editor at Penguin Books and co-founder with Oliver Caldecott of the publishing company Wildwood House in the 1970s. His younger son, Tom , was a film producer and director who went on to work on several James Bond films . Pevsner had many notable students including Phoebe Stanton . In 2007,
936-618: The months after the Blitz clearing bomb debris, and wrote reviews and art criticism for the Ministry of Information's Die Zeitung , an anti-Nazi publication for Germans living in England. He also completed for Penguin Books the Pelican paperback An Outline of European Architecture , which he had begun to develop while in internment. Outline would eventually go into seven editions, be translated into 16 languages, and sell more than half
972-406: The revision and expansion of further volumes to others, beginning with Enid Radcliffe for Essex (1965). The gazetteer descriptions of revised volumes do not routinely distinguish between Pevsner's original text and any new writing, but more recent books sometimes supply his words in quotation when the revising author's judgement differs, where a building has since been altered, or where the old text
1008-417: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Towers . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Towers&oldid=1067608919 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1044-699: The ship canal company had to buy both the Bridgewater Canal and the Mersey & Irwell Navigation within two years. In 1920 it became the base of the Shirley Institute of the British Cotton Industry Research Association as a research centre dedicated to cotton production technologies. A significant contribution to the purchase price of £10,000 was made by William Greenwood, the MP for Stockport , who asked that
1080-465: The volume on Italian baroque painting to the Handbuch der Kunstwissenschaft , a multi-volume series providing an overview of the history of European art. He taught at the University of Göttingen between 1929 and 1933, offering a specialist course on English art and architecture . According to biographers Stephen Games and Susie Harries, Pevsner welcomed many of the economic and cultural policies of
1116-673: The whole of Great Britain was completed in 2023, with the Irish series still in progress. As well as The Buildings of England , Pevsner proposed the Pelican History of Art series (which began in 1953), a multi-volume survey on the model of the German Handbuch der Kunstwissenschaft (English: "Handbook of the Science of Art"), which he would himself edit. Many individual volumes are regarded as classics. In 1946, Pevsner made
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1152-508: Was appointed a CBE in 1953 and was knighted in 1969 "for services to art and architecture". Pevsner also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1975. Pevsner died at his home 2, Wildwood Terrace , in August 1983. His wife, Lola, predeceased him by 20 years. His memorial service was held at the Church of Christ the King, Bloomsbury , the following December, with
1188-508: Was born in Leipzig , Saxony , the son of Anna and her husband Hugo Pevsner, a Russian-Jewish fur merchant. He attended St. Thomas School, Leipzig , and went on to study at several universities, Munich , Berlin , and Frankfurt am Main , before being awarded a doctorate by Leipzig in 1924 for a thesis on the Baroque architecture of Leipzig . In 1923, he married Carola ("Lola") Kurlbaum,
1224-424: Was his career as a writer and editor. After moving to England, Pevsner had found that the study of architectural history had little status in academic circles, and the amount of information available, especially to travellers wanting to inform themselves about the architecture of a particular district, was limited. Invited by Allen Lane , founder of Penguin Books , for whom he had written his Outline and also edited
1260-586: Was once the home of the notable engineer Daniel Adamson – whose idea for the canalisation of the Rivers Irwell and Mersey resulted in the creation of the Manchester Ship Canal project which made the rivers into Manchester navigable for sea-going ships. He invited representatives of several Lancashire towns, local businessmen and politicians, and two civil engineers, Hamilton Fulton and Edward Leader Williams . Fulton proposed
1296-516: Was reported as saying of the Nazis (in 1933): "I want this movement to succeed. There is no alternative but chaos... There are things worse than Hitlerism ." Pevsner's political leanings following Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in January 1933 are clearly revealed in several extracts from his diaries and letters that Suzie Harries includes in her 2011 book Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life . For example,
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