New Pevsner Introductions: Shedding Light on Buildings
To celebrate publication of the first two volumes in a new series from Pevsner, we asked Pevsner publisher…
Architecture
Pevsner Highlights and a look ahead
The Pevsner annual newsletter is now available online. Read on for Pevsner highlights from 2015, as well as…
Bringing Modern Architecture to Oxford
By Elain Harwood, author of Space, Hope and Brutalism — It’s very easy to take England’s universities for…
Space, Hope & Brutalism: A Conversation with Elain Harwood
Many of us in Britain are familiar with the uncompromising Brutalist architecture that can be found throughout the…
Windows Should Dream… Pevsner & Stained Glass
The subject of stained glass windows has become an increasingly important aspect of the Pevsner guides, both in…
Xerxes, The Builder of Persepolis: Part I
Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 BC, is the focus of a lively new biography…
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…
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,…