Historic England has excelled itself with a publication that takes a fresh look at a style long viewed as little more than a profanity ... Ne-Georgian Architecture 1880-1970 offers the start of a fuller understanding, sketching out the style's appearance as a plaything of 1920s elites before its municipal heyday ... This is a publication that should open eyes and, ... Read morehopefully, result in a full monograph.
John Jervis
ICON Magazine, Issue 159, Sept 16
... the book's chapters offer a compelling overview of the subject, with common threads connecting them. ... By initiating a long overdue conversation on the merits and drawbacks of the Neo-Georgian style, this book paves the way for further consideration of the subject.
Robin Prater
Lutyens Society Newsletter, Summer '16
The book is splendidly illustrated throughout with historic and contemporary photographs and drawings. Between them the authors make a timely call for a more balanced view of 20th century architecture. The book will be of interest to architectural historians but it has a much wider appeal in making a case for a widespread but often underestimated architectural style.
Michael Taylor
CONTEXT 147: November 2016
It remains to be said that Neo-Georgian Architecture is handsomely produced and contains excellent pictures, few of them published before. It reflects credit on Historic England as well as its authors and editors.
Andrew Saint
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, Volume 61
The book's scope extend from the 1880s to the 1970s, but scholars of the interwar period, when the Neo-Georgian achieved near ubiquity, will find much that is stimulating here. Neo-Georgian Architecture reminds us that Modernism was not the only architectural language of complexity and ambition ...
Neal Shasore
The Georgian, September 2017
This is a fascinating and tightly organised collection, which functions well as an illustrated survey while also providing ways of understanding the shifting discourses and contexts within which the Neo-Georgian has been conceptually constructed over the long timeline established by the editors. It is also a strong demonstration of the way architectural history can work as a collaborative enterprise, capable of addressing significant gaps in both intellectual history and practical knowledge. ... the cumulative effect of these studies is highly constructive, and the positive advocacy of the Neo-Georgian as something far more complex than pastiche .... is well judged. The book works convincingly as reappraisal of a mostly default style that has never been subjected to consistent and clear critical appraisal, and has had to endure very many insults.
Ian Hunt
Architectural History, Vol 60, 2017
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