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For over 60 years Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s study of European architecture has been regarded as a seminal work which has inspired countless students of architecture around the world. In this updated, larger format edition, which also has a new and elegant design and completely new drawings, an extra dimension is provided through the integration of over 200 superb colour photographs. Through his perceptive understanding of the heritage of past civilizations, and in the delineation of the buildings that continue to be recognized as the greatest symbols of artistic endeavour, Pevsner remains the essential guide and companion.

• A revised and expanded edition of Nikolaus Pevsner’s masterly survey of Europe’s most beautiful, dramatic and outstanding architecture, now fully illustrated throughout in colour.
• ‘A definitive and personal overview of the buildings that make European cities the glories they are, written by one of the great critics of the 20th century’ – Sir John Tusa
• A new preface and an illuminating postscript by architect Michael Forsyth continues where Pevsner left off by bringing the review right up to the present day.
• Includes considerations of recent buildings in Europe by acclaimed modern masters such as James Stirling, Norman Foster and Frank Gehry.

Table of Contents

Preface • Foreword • Introduction • 1. Twilight and Dawn: From the 4th to the 10th century • 2. The Romanesque Style: c.1000–c.1200 3. The Early and Classic Gothic Style: c.1150–c.1250 • 4. The Late Gothic Style: c.1250–c.1500 • 5. Renaissance and Mannerism: c.1420–c.1500 • 6. The Baroque in the Roman Catholic Countries: c.1600–c.1760 • 7. Britain and France from the 16th to the 18th Century • 8. The Romantic Movement, Historicism and the Beginning of the Modern Movement: 1760–1914 • 9. From the End of the First World War to the Present Day • Footnotes, Bibliography