Vertical Living: The Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington
Gatley, Julia, Walker, Paul
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Description for Vertical Living: The Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 232 pages, colour and b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 180 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1039.
… we of this Architectural Centre in Wellington are a group of architects and draughtsmen and wood engravers and other people whose greatest claim to affiliation is an overriding enthusiasm for good design."" – Design Review, 1948
""Planning was the battle-cry, the code name for the vital process that would make possible and indeed inevitable the world we intended to make. It meant design, as opposed to accident, or habit; everything from lamp-post to urban design."" – Allan Wild
In 1946, just as the Group was being established in Auckland, Wellington established the Architectural Centre. Members of both ... Read more
… we of this Architectural Centre in Wellington are a group of architects and draughtsmen and wood engravers and other people whose greatest claim to affiliation is an overriding enthusiasm for good design."" – Design Review, 1948
""Planning was the battle-cry, the code name for the vital process that would make possible and indeed inevitable the world we intended to make. It meant design, as opposed to accident, or habit; everything from lamp-post to urban design."" – Allan Wild
In 1946, just as the Group was being established in Auckland, Wellington established the Architectural Centre. Members of both ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869408152
SKU
V9781869408152
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-24
About Gatley, Julia, Walker, Paul
Julia Gatley is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. A graduate of Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Melbourne, she is author of Athfield Architects (Auckland University Press, 2012) and editor of Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture (Auckland University Press, 2010) and Long Live the Modern: New ... Read more
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