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    Nairn's Paris

    By Ian Nairn and Andrew Hussey

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    Last printed in 1968, this is a unique guidebook from the late, great architectural writer Ian Nairn. Illustrated with the author's black and white snaps of the city, Nairn's Paris captures the city on the cusp of great changes and provides a glimpse of a city that is about to disappear. Here is an idiosyncratic and unpretentious portrait of the 'collective masterpiece' that is Paris.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNotting Hill Editions
    Release dateApr 19, 2017
    ISBN9781910749883
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    Ian Nairn

    Ian Nairn (1930–1983) was a British architectural critic and topographer who coined the term ‘subtopia’ for the areas around cities that had in his view been failed by urban planning, losing their individuality and spirit of place. In the 1960s he contributed to the volumes on Surrey and Sussex in Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England series and published a number of his own books, including Nairn’s Paris and Nairn’s Towns, both published by Notting Hill Editions.

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