An authoritative survey of British buildings between the wars by the late Gavin Stamp - one of Britain's best-known architecture critics
Gavin Stamp was an architectural historian and scholar, one of Britain's leading experts on pre-war building and design. 'Brought up in a Tudor bungalow on the Orpington by-pass', as he recalled, he was educated on a scholarship at Dulwich College. Prolific as an author, curator and journalist, as 'Piloti' he wrote Private Eye's 'Nooks & Corners' column from 1978 until his death in 2017. He was chairman of the 20th-Century Society from 1983-2007, and wrote more than twenty books on topics including Edwin Lutyens, George Gilbert Scott, brutalism and telephone boxes.
'Praise for Gavin Stamp' - :
'It is a puzzle to me that Stamp is not better known. He is
eloquent, funny and eccentric. He is as familiar with the streets
of our cities as a taxi driver with The Knowledge, and brilliant at
connecting sublime ideas with the ordinary aspects of our daily
lives' - Charles Moore
'Acute, erudite, elegant' - The Times
'A wonderful celebration of the best in English design, and a
stylish invective against the worst.' - Mary Beard, on
'Anti-Ugly'
'Informative and engaging about all kinds of English things, from
royal tombs to London buses ... Stamp always tell[s] you something
new, which is a wonderful thing' - Ian Jack
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