Main entry:

Chipkin, Clive M.

Title & Author:

Johannesburg style : architecture & society, 1880s-1960s / Clive M. Chipkin.

Publication:

Cape Town : D. Philip Publishers ; Johannesburg : Thorold's Africana Books [distributor], 1993.

Description:

vii, 335 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-329) and index.
1. Victorian Johannesburg -- The Lost World -- Age of Capitalism -- Victorian Prelude -- Beginnings -- Gold Fever -- Victorian Townscape -- Victorian Architecture -- 1890's Residential Boom -- Trek to the towns -- Compounds of the Rich -- 2. Edwardian Age -- Imperial tide -- Herbert Baker -- Edwardian Johannesburg -- Edwardian Splendour -- Johannesburg-Pretoria-New Delhi -- 3. 1920's Johannesburg -- Hegemony, not modernity -- Cape Riviera -- Georgian Revival -- New wine, old bottles -- 1920's classicism -- Americanisms -- 1929 -- 4. 1930's Johannesburg -- Discrediting the old -- Metropolis -- Art Deco Johannesburg -- Schlesinger know-how -- 1936 -- Exhibition style -- Flight -- Monolithic Johannesburg -- The National Question -- Modern in modernisation -- Skyscrapers -- 5. Johannesburg-Paris -- Origins -- New architecture -- Houghton Villas -- Corbusier in the suburbs -- Rue de Sevres -- Alternative modern -- Climax -- 6. Township Johannesburg -- Migration -- Locations -- Black areas -- New Botshabelo -- Marabi Age -- Call of the city -- World of strangers -- Native housing -- Destruction of Sophiatown -- 7. Post-war Johannesburg -- Revaluations -- Hillbrow Vernacular -- Brazil builds -- Little Brazil -- Berea Scale -- Regional office style -- Precincts -- Alternatives -- Architektura -- Cowin and continuity -- Perret Interlude -- Johannesburg-Pretoria -- Out of Africa -- Patio Houses -- Johannesburg-Berlin -- Johannesburg-New York -- Johannesburg-Philadelphia.

ISBN:

0864862210
9780864862211

Subject:

Architecture South Africa Johannesburg History 19th century.
Architecture South Africa Johannesburg History 20th century.
Architecture Afrique du Sud Johannesburg Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture Afrique du Sud Johannesburg Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture
Buildings
Architektur
Bildband
Johannesburg (South Africa) Buildings, structures, etc.
South Africa Johannesburg
Johannesburg

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319425
Call No.: 319425
Copy: 1
Status: Available