Australia : modern architectures in history / Harry Margalit.

Main entry:

Margalit, Harry, author.

Title & Author:

Australia : modern architectures in history / Harry Margalit.

Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2019.

Description:

364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

Modern architectures in history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

This book tells the story of the architects and buildings that have defined Australia's architectural culture since the founding of the modern nation through Federation in 1901. That year marked the beginning of a search for city forms and better buildings to accommodate the realities of Australian life and to express an emerging distinctive and, eventually, confident Australian identity. While Sydney and Melbourne were the settings for many of the major buildings, all states and territories developed architectural traditions based on distinctive histories and climates. This book covers the flowering of these many variants, from the bid to create a model city in Canberra, through the stylistic battles that opened a space for modernism, to the idealism of postwar reconstruction and beyond to the new millennium. It reveals a vibrant and influential culture, at its best when it matches a civic idealism with the sensuality of a country of stunning light and landscapes.

ISBN:

9781789141245 paperback
1789141249 paperback
electronic book
9781789141627

Subject:

Architecture Australia History.
Architects Australia History.
Architecture Australie Histoire.
Architectes Australie Histoire.
Architecture History. Australia.
Architects History. Australia.
Architects
Architecture
Australia.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Modern architectures in history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307428
Call No.: BIB 252915
Status: Available

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