The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design

About Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (19021983) was Slade Professor of Fine Art University of Cambridge 194955 and Fellow of St John's College 195055. He was the first Professor of the History of Art Department at Birkbeck College University of London retiring in 1969. He is probably best known for The Buildings of England completed in more than fifty volumes shortly before his death and for his Outline of European Architecture which has remained a standard work for over forty years. Kenneth Frampton CBE served as Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation Columbia University New York from 1972 to 2019. In 2018 he was awarded the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale. His publications include Studies in Tectonic Culture Labour Work and Architecture American Masterworks Kengo Kuma: Complete Works and A Genealogy of Modern Architecture.