Experiments in Modern Living : Scientists' Houses in Canberra 1950-1970 / Milton Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Milton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 213 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

When a group of brilliant young scientists arrived in Australia’s national capital after World War II to take up leading roles in the establishment of national research institutions, they commissioned Australia’s leading architects to design their private houses. The houses that resulted from these unique collaborations rejected previous architectural styles and wholeheartedly embraced modernist ideologies and aesthetics. The story of how these progressive clients contributed to the innovative design of their houses brings fresh insights to mid-twentieth-century Australian domestic architecture and to Canberra’s rich cultural history.URI

Contents:

Preliminary

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Map of Canberra

Select Inventory

Introduction: Domestic Voyeurism

1. Age of the Masters: Establishing a scientific and intellectual community in Canberra, 1946-1968

2. Paradigm Shift: Boyd and the Fenner House

3. Promoting the New Paradigm: Seidler and the Zwar House

4. Form Follows Formula: Grounds, Boyd and the Philip House

5. Where Science Meets Art: Bischoff and the Gascoigne House

6. The Origins of Form: Grounds, Bischoff and the Frankel House

Afterword: Before and After Science

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed June 10, 2020).

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781921862700 (ebook)

OCLC:

801422069

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459101