Title & Author:

New dreamland : writing New Zealand architecture / [edited by] Douglas Lloyd Jenkins.

Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Godwit, 2005.

Description:

320 p. : ill., plans ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Collection of essays all previously published.
"A Goodwit book"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Writing New Zealand architecture / Douglas Lloyd Jenkins -- Architectural art in New Zealand (1900) / Samuel Hurst Seager -- How houses may be improved : A plea for art in house design (1912) / Gerald E. Jones -- Domestic architecture in New Zealand (1916) . Frederick de Jersey Clere -- The garden forecourt/Maori art motifs (1928) / Jocelyn Brown -- Some thoughts on the building of houses (1929) / James Walter Chapman-Taylor -- Evolution or revolution : What New Zealand architects are doing with modernism (1936) / Anonymous -- The stranger within your gate/The housing of books (1937) / Alison Pickmere -- Problems of working-class housing (1936) / Cedric Firth -- Workers' housing : A scheme for New Zealand (1937) / W. Robin Simpson -- About houses (1943) / Ernst Anton Plischke -- The modern house (1947) / Paul Pascoe and Humphrey Hall -- The constitution of the Architectural Group/On the necessity for architecture : The manifesto of the Architectural Group (1946/1948) / The Architectural Group -- The small house (1948) / Bill Wilson -- Another student house (1950) / A.R.D. Fairburn -- Architecture in the next fifty years (1956) / William Toomath -- South Island architecture (1967) / Peter Beaven -- A sense of community (1972) / Sue McCauley -- Of woolsheds, houses and people : A conversation with John Scott and Ming Ching-Fan (1973) / Ray Grover -- Auckland : Water city of the South Pacific (1976) / Richard H. Toy -- A description og the Maori marae (1976) / Michael Austin -- A survival kit for small offices; or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the institute / Chris Brooke-White -- Style in New Zealand architecture / Miles Warren -- The Slob City impulse (1979) / David Mitchell -- The mid-city crisis (1985) / Gerald Melling -- Paradise lost and found : The insinuation of architecture in New Zealand (1986) / Mark Wigley -- From the margins of architecture : An account of domesticity (1989-92) / Sarah Treadwell -- A house in the West / Bill McKay -- Projects of our times (1995) / Patrick Clifford and Giles Reid.

Summary:

Douglas Lloyd Jenkins brings together in one volume a selection of key essays (28 in total) that have shaped 20th century New Zealand architecture and architectural thinking. The essays have traditionally appeared in journals and magazines, but with an increasing popular and scholarly interest in NZ architecural history, particularly as it pertains to the 20th century, there is considerable renewed interest in these difficult-to-locate works. Each decade is well represented, particularly the 1940s and 1950s with the influences of the Central European refugees such as Plischke, Porsolt, Kulka and Cacala and the renowned Group Architects, and the 1970s with the innovative philosophies of Peter Beaven, Miles Warren, Chris Brooke-White and David Mitchell, both in the areas of residential and commercial architecture.

ISBN:

1869621182 (pbk.) (paperback)
9781869621186 (pbk.) (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture New Zealand.
Interior decoration New Zealand.
Architecture Nouvelle-Zélande.
Décoration intérieure Nouvelle-Zélande.
Architecture.
Interior decoration.
New Zealand.

Added entries:

Lloyd-Jenkins, Douglas.

New dream land
Writing New Zealand architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261378
Call No.: BIB 192386
Status: Available