Outrage

Description

Outrage by Ian Nairn is published on 4th February 2025 – available to pre-order now. Orders will be despatched a few days before publication date.

Acclaimed critic Ian Nairn’s masterpiece, reissued for the first time since 1955 and introduced by Travis Elborough.

In 1955, Britain’s most prestigious architectural magazine, The Architectural Review, published a special issue featuring a single essay by Ian Nairn, a famously opinionated (and untrained) architectural critic. Based on observations made on a journey Nairn took across the UK in a Morris Minor, Outrage is a searing critique of urban sprawl, or ‘Subtopia’. In this manifesto, Nairn warns that ‘if what is called development is allowed to multiply at the present rate’, Britain’s natural – and urban – landscapes will lose their individuality and spirit.

A call-to-arms against the ‘greying out’ of our towns and countryside before it’s too late, Outrage by Ian Nairn is widely considered to be his masterpiece.

Contains over fifty of Nairn’s original black-and-white photographs.

The following works by Ian Nairn are also available from Notting Hill Editions: Modern Buildings in London, Nairn’s Paris and Nairn’s Towns.