Longtime critic still best guide to London architecture
By Giles Elgood In London | China Daily | Updated: 2015-02-11 07:45
Arguably the best guide to London published this season was written nearly 50 years ago.
Nairn's London by Ian Nairn first appeared in 1966 and has been reprinted after fans of the idiosyncratic architectural enthusiast mounted a public campaign.
The author, a former Royal Air Force fighter pilot who badgered the editors of the Architectural Review into giving him a job and who went on to become the Observer's architecture critic, died of drinking in 1983, aged 52.
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