In the Steps of the Medici: A Walk Through Renaissance Florence
Put on some comfortable shoes (or just imagine putting them on!) and join us in our Italian holiday…
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Pevsner People Power: The Aldeburgh petition
‘The counties of England implicitly argue in their architecture that our ancestors knew what they were about and…
For the love of cider: Pevsner in Suffolk
Author James Bettley on Nikolaus Pevsner in Suffolk, his practices and an ongoing mission of vision and revision…
Interview with David Adjaye, by David Ebony
Postcolonial Realism: The Architecture of David Adjaye Merging the worlds of architecture, art, and design in a unique way,…
Durham Cathedral: History, Fabric and Culture
‘Grey towers of Durham, Yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles’, proclaimed Sir Walter Scott. New…
David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material
David Adjaye is one of the most exciting and important architects and designers of his generation. Yale is…
Art and Architecture of Ireland: From Start to Finish
A new group of deeply researched books covering the Art and Architecture of Ireland (AAI) in 5 volumes, is…
Albert Speer: An Artist Under Hitler
‘When Speer’s father saw the model of Berlin, he responded to his son, “You’ve all gone completely insane”.’ Albert…
5 books to watch (and read) in 2015
We’ve had an exciting year here at Yale UP London, with highlights such as a Nobel prize-winning author,…
FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIALS IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE CHURCHES
In this centenary year of the Great War, Pevsner author Simon Bradley explores some rarely seen memorials to…
Pevsner Guides: Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire & Peterborough
Yale’s Pevsner Architectural Guides series has continued to grow during 2014, and now includes a revised volume on Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire…
Watts and Co: Intelligent Design and the Gothic Revival
The leading textile and design firm Watts and Co. has carefully reviewed its archive and has curated its…
The Decorative History of the Basilica of San Francesco
For a brief moment at the close of the 13th century, the town of Assisi was the focus…
Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art
Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art offers a new…
A Conversation with Pevsner editors Simon Bradley and Charles O’Brien
The Pevsner Architectural Guides were begun in 1951 by the architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83) with the aim…