Nikolaus Pevsner

"The great importance of Wilbury House lies less in its appearance now than in its appearance as it was first built and illustrated in Vitruvius Britannicus. It was designed by and built for William Be…"

"Pevsner's career is a prism through which to view the world of art history as it developed in England in the middle of the twentieth century."

"A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture. Nearly everything that encloses space on a scale sufficient for a human being to move in is a building; the term architectur…"

"It was perhaps a bad moment to undertake an architectural guide to the City of London. There are, at the time of writing, still whole areas lying waste after bombing in the Second World War. A number …"

"Pevsner was very much the German bourgeois Jew - a certain amount of austerity and not a lot of giggles."