Vertical Living: The Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington - Hardcover
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.
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Julia Gatley is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. She is author of Athfield Architects and editor of Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture and Long Live the Modern: New Zealand’s New Architecture, 1904–1984. Paul Walker is a professor of architecture at the University of Melbourne. He is coauthor of Looking for the Local: Architecture and the New Zealand Modern. Recent publications include chapters in Colonial Modernities, Neo-Avant-garde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond, and The Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory.
“Julia Gatley has established herself as the country’s leading commentator on our architectural heritage.” —Art News on Athfield Architects
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- PublisherAuckland University Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1869408152
- ISBN 13 9781869408152
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages232
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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. More than just an association of architects, the Centre wrote manifestos, 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, better built environments in Wellington. Its members also built a demonstration house, but 'planning was the battle-cry'. Charting these activists and their projects over the years, Julia Gatley and Paul Walker in Vertical Living 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 multi-disciplinary history, politics and planning of the Architectural Centre, Gatley and Walker begin writing the city back into the history of architecture in this country. Recovers the powerful history, politics and architecture of the Architectural Centre to return us to a vision of a modernist city, partially realised in Wellington New Zealand. Gatley and Walker begin writing the city back into the history of architecture in this country. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781869408152
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