Post-war Years
In the post-war years of new ideas, its reputation for scholarship grew and Pevsner was succeeded by a young Colin Rowe, who made memorable contributions to the magazine.
After the strong foreign flavour of the war and its immediate aftermath, the 1950s witnessed a shift back to the conscientious efforts of British architects to rebuild a shattered nation. Reyner Banham (who had studied under Pevsner) joined in 1952, and made an almost immediate mark on the magazine that seemed to him ‘rather fusty and run by elderly men’.
In its Townscape, Subtopia and Outrage sections, pioneered by Ian Nairn and Gordon Cullen, the AR campaigned vigorously against the curse of mediocre philistinism and celebrated the apotheosis of modernism.
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