Higher Ordinariness
Jonathan Meades: Poor Surrey, 23 May 2024
Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39
by Gavin Stamp.
Profile, 568 pp., £40, March,978 1 80081 739 5 Show More
by Gavin Stamp.
Profile, 568 pp., £40, March,
The Buildings of England: Surrey
by Charles O’Brien, Ian Nairn and Bridget Cherry.
Yale, 854 pp., £60, November 2022,978 0 300 23478 7 Show More
by Charles O’Brien, Ian Nairn and Bridget Cherry.
Yale, 854 pp., £60, November 2022,
“... he discovered, for instance, the fine perspectivist and occasional architect Raymond Myerscough Walker living in a vagabond caravan in a wood near Chichester, his archive stored in his car, a near sunken Rover. Such persons are much more than also-rans. They are the substance of a parallel history of Stamp’s creation that abjures inflated ... ”
