If you resist Paris, wrote the English topographer Ian Nairn in 1968, "it will kick you back". Give in to its charms, though, and you'll find "the whole city is urging you to greater depth of feeling, ...

The distinguished architectural writer Gillian Darley retraces the story of "Subtopia", one of the most significant architectural debacles of the post-war era, and considers its long shadow. Her story ...

Profile of architecture critic Ian Nairn who led a blistering attack on the soulless destruction of Britain by shoddy post-war planners, but who was a flawed, troubled character.

LONDON (Reuters) - 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 ...

Nairn reminds us that we have a right not to put up with this: a new range of pylons is set to march across East Anglia to the Thames - Gareth Fuller Ian Nairn, the architecture critic, achieved fame ...

In the week of what would have been Ian Nairn’s 95th birthday, the AJ is pleased to publish this update of Outrage – his epic howl against architectural mediocrity – written by his ghost (channelled ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the autumn of 1964, in the midst of a general election campaign that would bring Harold Wilson’s Labour party to ...

In these six programmes Ian Nairn looks at industrial landscape; considers the unique appeal of Liverpool; tries to analyse the attraction of a summer Bank Holiday county like Cornwall; asks if in new ...