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Vertical living : the Architectural Centre and the remaking of Wellington / Julia Gatley and Paul Walker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 220 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781869408152
  • 1869408152
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.99363 23
  • 720.993465 23
LOC classification:
  • NA1607.W4
Contents:
Introduction -- -- The forties -- Context: a burgeoning modernism -- The foundation of the centre -- Educating architects and the public -- -- The fifties and sixties -- Conntext: affluence, consumerism and sprawl -- The gallery -- The battle for town planning -- -- The seventies and eighties -- Context: commercial city -- The centre as a protest and lobby group -- The recognition of heritage values -- -- The nineties and beyond -- Context: leisure city -- Exhibiting architecture -- Turning sixty.
Summary: "In 1946 a group of students and idealists got together to realise their visions for a modern city. Over the following half century, the Architectural Centre they founded helped to shape the possibilities of modern life in urban New Zealand and profoundly influenced the remaking of Wellington."--Publisher's website.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 720.993465 GAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A529202B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- -- The forties -- Context: a burgeoning modernism -- The foundation of the centre -- Educating architects and the public -- -- The fifties and sixties -- Conntext: affluence, consumerism and sprawl -- The gallery -- The battle for town planning -- -- The seventies and eighties -- Context: commercial city -- The centre as a protest and lobby group -- The recognition of heritage values -- -- The nineties and beyond -- Context: leisure city -- Exhibiting architecture -- Turning sixty.

"In 1946 a group of students and idealists got together to realise their visions for a modern city. Over the following half century, the Architectural Centre they founded helped to shape the possibilities of modern life in urban New Zealand and profoundly influenced the remaking of Wellington."--Publisher's website.

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