Title & Author:

Exquisite apart : 100 years of architecture in New Zealand / edited by Charles Walker.

Publication:

[Auckland, N.Z.] : [Balasoglou Books on behalf of the New Zealand Institute of Architects], [2005]

Description:

248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Foreword / Gordon Moller -- Introduction : Exquisite apart / Charles Walker -- 1. The first fifty years / Sir Miles Warren. History of the NZIA Awards. NZIA Awards 1927-1949 -- 2. Into the post war world / William Toomath -- 3. Tradition and innovation : Modern architecture in the South Island / Tony van Raat -- 4. The terrible twins : Athfield and Walker in (and out of) the 1970s / Gerald Melling -- 5. Watershed : Of buildings and stories and elegant sheds / Peter Wood. NZIA Awards 1950-1969 -- 6. Instituting bi-culturalism / Deidre Brown -- 7. Not as we know it / Tom Heneghan -- 8. Evolving plans / Marshall Cook -- 9. Sketching in the margins : Women in the architectural professions / Gill Matthewson -- 10. New patterns of settlement / David Mitchell. NZIA Awards 1970-1989 -- 11. Big / Pip Cheshire -- 12. Imaginary tradition : Pacific architecture and the New Zealand context / Albert Refiti -- 13. Architecture as stage / Dorita Hannah -- 14. Second nature / Christopher Kelly -- 15. Emerging practices / Charles Walker. NZIA Awards 1990-2004. NZIA award winners 1927-2004. List of NZIA presidents 1905-2005.

Summary:

"This book marks the centenary of the New Zealand Institute of Architects by gathering together a selection of buildings, people and opinions that both celebrate and critique many of our recent assumptions and expections about what constitutes an authentically New Zealand architecture."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0476013666
9780476013667

Subject:

New Zealand Institute of Architects Awards.
New Zealand Institute of Architects
Architects New Zealand.
Architecture New Zealand 20th century.
Architecture New Zealand 21st century.
Architectes Nouvelle-Zélande.
Architecture Nouvelle-Zélande 20e siècle.
Architecture Nouvelle-Zélande 21e siècle.
Architects
Architecture
Awards
New Zealand

Form/genre:

Book
Published in New Zealand

Added entries:

Walker, Charles, 1957-
New Zealand Institute of Architects.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241299
Call No.: BIB 171204
Status: Available