Announcing Pevsner’s Architectural Glossary App
The perfect way to check architectural terms when you are out and about, exploring buildings.
Just in time for National Landscape Architecture month, Yale University Press is pleased to announce the release of Pevsner’s Architectural Glossary app. Based on the 2010 publication of Pevsner’s Architectural Glossary, this iOS app will allow users to interactively engage with Pevsner’s vocabulary and knowledge base. With a glossary of architectural terms, explanatory line drawings, specific building maps, and beautiful color images, the app will allow both beginner students and expect scholars to explore Pevsner’s masterful understanding of the field.
Sally Salvesen, publisher of the Pevsner Guide Series said of the app, “This vocabulary is absolutely central to Pevsner’s famous survey of British architecture and the Glossary book has shown how keen people are to engage with it. We are excited to be taking this first step in digitizing Pevsner content…”
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Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83), one of the most learned and stimulating twentieth-century writers on art and architecture, began his career in Germany. He later became Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck College (University of London), Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge and a Gold Medallist of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In addition to The Buildings of England, first published from 1951 to 1974, he was founding editor of The Pelican History of Art and of The Buildings of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Among his many publications are An Outline of European Architecture, Pioneers of Modern Design and A History of Building Types. See all available titles from the Pevsner Architectural Guides here.
So Yale University Press supports only the Apple operating system? There seems to be no news of an Android version.