New edition of Pevsner’s Sussex launched on campus

New edition of Pevsner's Sussex launched on campus. Nearly 50 years after it first came out, the revised Sussex edition of a renowned series of architectural guides is about to be published - with Falmer House on the front cover. Architects and architectural historians gathered in the Meeting House on campus on Thursday (23 May) to celebrate the publication by Yale University Press of the new Sussex: East edition of the Buildings of England series. The Sussex volume of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's comprehensive and authoritative 46-volume series was first published in 1965. Each book in the series contains an introduction to the architectural history and styles of the area, followed by a town-by-town account of notable buildings (with particular emphasis on churches and public buildings) and notes on lesser-known and vernacular buildings. Most of the original volumes have taken a long time to be revised as the work takes several years by a small, dedicated team, with one or two regional specialists for each volume. In 2008 the University of Sussex campus architecture did feature in a series of Pevsner City Guides on Brighton and Hove , in an illustrated paperback format.