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Book A History of New Zealand Architecture

Download or read book A History of New Zealand Architecture written by Peter Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated and re-jacketed edition reviews the latest developments in New Zealand's rich architectural history and explores the way a country's architecture reflects the spirit and aspirations of its inhabitants.

Book Wellington Architecture

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  • Author : JOHN. WALSH
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-04-07
  • ISBN : 9781991151100
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Wellington Architecture written by JOHN. WALSH and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in the series of popular and handy guides to our urban architecture by the well-known team of writer John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds. It tells the stories of more than 120 significant central-city buildings, and also of the architects who designed them. The buildings are grouped into five self-guided walking routes, each with a map; together these itineraries create a character portrait of New Zealand's most urbane city.It's the perfect guide for visitors to Wellington and also for locals who want to know more about their city.

Book Vertical Living

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  • Author : Julia Gatley
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2014-09-01
  • ISBN : 1775587207
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Vertical Living written by Julia Gatley and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946 a group of students and idealists got together to realize their visions for a modern city. Over the following half century, the Architectural Centre they founded helped shape the possibilities of modern life in urban New Zealand and profoundly influenced the remaking of the capital city of Wellington. More than just an association of architects, the Centre furthered education, published a magazine—Design Review—hosted modernist exhibitions in its gallery, staged an audacious campaign for political influence called &“the Project,&” and fought for better planning, better design, and better built environments in Wellington. Charting these activists and their projects over the years, Julia Gatley and Paul Walker also offer a history of urban Wellington from the 1940s to the 1990s and beyond. The book reminds us that, in modernist ideology, architecture and urban planning went hand-in-hand with visual and craft arts, graphic and industrial design. In recovering the multidisciplinary history, politics, and planning of the Architectural Centre, Gatley and Walker begin writing the city back into the history of architecture in New Zealand.

Book Long Live the Modern

Download or read book Long Live the Modern written by Julia Gatley and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long Live the Modern celebrates New Zealands heritage of modern architecture. It is not a history of modern architecture in that country. Rather, it identifies 180 key modern buildings that survive and maintain their original design integrity.

Book New Zealand

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  • Author : Dianne Buerger
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0756660904
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book New Zealand written by Dianne Buerger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history and culture of New Zealand and offers tips on accommodations, restaurants, and sights.

Book Harry Turbott

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  • Author : Garth Falconer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9780473517496
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Harry Turbott written by Garth Falconer and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental design and landscape architecture are growing fields in New Zealand as people become more aware of the possibilities and benefits of sustainable development. From the early 1960s Dr Harry Turbott played a key role in introducing these concepts to New Zealand. Now his enormous work and rich legacy can be truly celebrated for the first time. Landscape architect, teacher and environmentalist Harry Turbott (1930- 2016) was at the forefront of the first wave of environmental design. This book showcases his life and prolific works, and is beautifully illustrated. The estranged son of well-known radio broadcaster Dr Turbott, Harry had a very interesting and colourful career. Upon graduating from the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture, he won a scholarship to study at Harvard University, where he completed a Master’s in Landscape Architecture in 1958. He then spent 18 months working closely with Dan Kiley, America’s foremost landscape architect, before touring Europe and India with his wife Nan. They returned to New Zealand in 1961 and settled in Karekare, a remote West Auckland beach. From here Harry embarked on a ground-breaking design career, working on motorways, beachfront farms, suburban shopping centres,national parks, Pacific Island resorts and ski fields. He also taught at Auckland’s School of Architecture and Town Planning for more than 30 years. All of Harry’s work showed immense respect and care for the environment. He believed the designer’s role was one of service to society to protect, restore and enhance the environment of which people were intimately and irrevocably part of. Harry recognised the importance of indigenous architecture. He embraced Māori and Pasifika cultures during many collaborative projects, including the restoration of Rarotonga’s Para O Tane Palace in Rarotonga and the Arataki Visitors Centre in the Waitākere Ranges. The biography offers an intimate portrait of Harry’s life, his global influences and outlines several of his legacy projects. The final section is a short chapter written by Sir Bob Harvey on the life of Harry’s wife and her work. Harry and Sir Bob were close friends due to their years spent as neighbours.

Book Worship

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  • Author : Bill McKay
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-10-21
  • ISBN : 9781775538363
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Worship written by Bill McKay and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This stunning tribute to New Zealand church architecture brings together early country churches, grand cathedrals and striking modernist designs in a unique survey of some of our most compelling landmark buildings. Architectural historian Bill McKay thoughtfully explores the history and diversity of church building in New Zealand over the past 200 years, while award-winning photographer Jane Ussher captures in extraordinary detail an array of churches the length of the country"--Publisher information.

Book A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture

Download or read book A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture written by Elie G. Haddad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by seminal texts by Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi, and gave rise to the first revisionary movement following Modernism. Bringing together leading experts in the field, this book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the developments in architecture from 1960 to 2010. It consists of two parts: the first section providing a presentation of major movements in architecture after 1960, and the second, a geographic survey that covers a wide range of territories around the world. This book not only reflects the different perspectives of its various authors, but also charts a middle course between the 'aesthetic' histories that examine architecture solely in terms of its formal aspects, and the more 'ideological' histories that subject it to a critique that often skirts the discussion of its formal aspects.

Book American Architectural History

Download or read book American Architectural History written by Keith Eggener and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times.

Book Snapshot 500

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  • Author : Julia Gatley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9780987659552
  • Pages : 99 pages

Download or read book Snapshot 500 written by Julia Gatley and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What is Architectural History

Download or read book What is Architectural History written by Andrew Leach and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Architectural History? considers the questions and problems posed by architectural historians since the rise of the discipline in the late nineteenth century. How do historians of architecture organise past time and relate it to the present? How does historical evidence translate into historical narrative? Should architectural history be useful for practicing architects? If so, how? Leach treats the disciplinarity of architectural history as an open question, moving between three key approaches to historical knowledge of architecture: within art history, as an historical specialisation and, most prominently, within architecture. He suggests that the confusions around this question have been productive, ensuring a rich variety of approaches to the project of exploring architecture historically. Read alongside introductory surveys of western and global architectural history, this book will open up questions of perspective, frame, and intent for students of architecture, art history, and history. Graduate students and established architectural historians will find much in this book to fuel discussions over the current state of the field in which they work.

Book I Never Met a Straight Line I Didn t Like

Download or read book I Never Met a Straight Line I Didn t Like written by Mary Gaudin and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 1960s a small, conservative city at the bottom of the world exploded with a creative force that developed into a recognisable style of architecture...the homes illustrated here are just a small representation of the style and architects of the period"--Introduction.

Book At Home

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  • Author : Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins
  • Publisher : Godwit Pub.
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781869621100
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book At Home written by Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins and published by Godwit Pub.. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the first decade of the twentieth century as its starting point, At Home joins the story of the New Zealand house just at the point when its inhabitants begin to ask whether a distinctive, uniquely New Zealand house might be possible. It then charts the way in which imported movements, fashions and styles in twentieth-century architecture and design were adopted, or adapted, by New Zealanders to create a house environment whether international in its style or an attempt at something more distinctly local. At Home goes behind the scenes of architectural history to look at the way 20th century New Zealanders lived in environments created for them by architects, designers and craftspeople united in the pursuit of the contemporary New Zealand home.

Book House of the Dragon

Download or read book House of the Dragon written by Gestalten and published by Gestalten. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new design expression is being formed in China as architects look internally for visionary design instead of toward the West.

Book At Home in New Zealand

Download or read book At Home in New Zealand written by Barbara Lesley Brookes and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: