Professor Taylor recognises the importance of the house in Australian society and shows how changing life styles have resulted in variations in the design of homes in rural and urban situations. The book presents a history, an analytical comment, and serves as a reference text. It is generously illustrated and provides a compendium of material on a crucial thirty-year period of Australian architecture.
About This Book
This is the first book to tell of an exciting phase in the development of Australian architecture. The second half of the 20th century saw the acceptance and spread of the ideas and technologies of the Modern Movement and the later questioning of the results of those same forces. In Australia these world-wide developments have produced buildings of a distinct character arising from the unique circumstances of the continent and its people. Professor Taylor discusses the architecture in the context of the culture that brought it about and supports the text with photographs that reveal the particular qualities of the new buildings.
The main theme is the increasing appreciation and understanding of the country and the resulting growth in confidence and maturity in the architecture. It explores the changing attitudes to building in the cities and the effects of these on urban form. the architects' responses to Australia as a unique land are highlighted with individual chapters devoted to Canberra and Queensland, places where the local conditions have given rise to differing architectural expressions. Professor Taylor recognises the importance of the house in Australian society and shows how changing life styles have resulted in variations in the design of homes in rural and urban situations. The book presents a history, an analytical comment, and serves as a reference text. It is generously illustrated and provides a compendium of material on a crucial thirty-year period of Australian architecture.
Key Features
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Traces Australian architecture from 1960 through the spread and later questioning of Modern Movement ideas
- Authored by Professor Jennifer Taylor, with a foreword by Peter R. N. Johnson
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Individual chapters devoted to Canberra and Queensland, examining how local conditions produced distinct architectural expressions
- Heavily illustrated with black-and-white and colour photographs and plans
What You'll Discover
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How growing understanding of the Australian landscape shaped a more confident, mature architecture
- The changing attitudes to urban building and their effects on the form of Australian cities
- The evolution of the Australian house and how shifting lifestyles reshaped domestic design in both rural and urban settings
About the Author
Jennifer Taylor (b. 1935) is a historian and academic specialising in Australian and Asia-Pacific architecture of the 20th century, with a body of published work examining the development of a distinctly Australian modern architecture.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Dimensions: 29.0 × 28.0 cm
- Pages: 264
- Language: English
- ISBN: 0455203512
- Publisher: Royal Australian Institute of Architects - National Office
Perfect For: Australian architectural practitioners, historians and theorists, anyone teaching or studying Australian architectural history critically, and readers who are engaged in a shifting condition and expression of local architectural practice.