NAIRN'S TOWNS

摘要

I came late to Ian Nairn. I first heard of him just six years ago while visiting an architect who wanted the AJ to publish a review of his building. The architect clutched a dog-eared copy of Nairn's London and was eager to tell me how special it was. How Nairn's recollection of a particular sequence of buildings would cast a spell upon his senses. And how Nairn, his favourite writer, was guided more by instinct than by historians or other critics. He also told me Nairn was out of print and very hard to find, and no, sorry, I couldn't borrow his copy.