Vertical living : the Architectural Centre and the remaking of Wellington / / Julia Gatley and Paul Walker ; internal design, Katrina Duncan ; case and jacket design, Spencer Levine
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Gatley Julia
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| Titolo: |
Vertical living : the Architectural Centre and the remaking of Wellington / / Julia Gatley and Paul Walker ; internal design, Katrina Duncan ; case and jacket design, Spencer Levine
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| Pubblicazione: | Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 720.9936309045 |
| Soggetto topico: | Architecture - New Zealand - Wellington - History - 20th century |
| Persona (resp. second.): | WalkerPaul |
| DuncanKatrina | |
| LevineSpencer | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; The Forties; Context: A Burgeoning Modernism; The Foundation of the Centre; Educating Architects and the Public; The Fifties and Sixties; Context: Affluence, Consumerism and Sprawl; Bursting into Print; 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; Notes; Select Bibliography; Architectural Centre Presidents; Acknowledgements; Contributors |
| IndexCopyright | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | For more than fifty years, the Architectural Centre has helped shape the possibilities of modern life in urban New Zealand and profoundly influenced the remaking of Wellington. 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 ? Desi |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Vertical living |
| ISBN: | 1775587207 |
| 1775587193 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786562203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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