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Vertical living : the Architectural Centre and the remaking of Wellington / Julia Gatley and Paul Walker ; internal design, Katrina Duncan ; case and jacket design, Spencer Levine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gatley, Julia, author.
- Walker, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--New Zealand--Wellington--History--20th century.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For more than fifty years, the Architectural Centre has helped shape the possibilities of modern life in urban New Zealand and profoundly influenced the remaking of Wellington. In 1946 a group of students and idealists got together to realise their visions for a modern city. Over the following half century, the Architectural Centre they founded helped to shape the possibilities of modern life in urban New Zealand and profoundly influenced the remaking of Wellington. More than just an association of architects, the Centre wrote manifestos, furthered education, published a magazine ? Desi
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; The Forties; Context: A Burgeoning Modernism; The Foundation of the Centre; Educating Architects and the Public; The Fifties and Sixties; Context: Affluence, Consumerism and Sprawl; Bursting into Print; The Gallery; The Battle for Town Planning; The Seventies and Eighties; Context: Commercial City; The Centre as a Protest and Lobby Group; The Recognition of Heritage Values; The Nineties and Beyond; Context: Leisure City; Exhibiting Architecture; Turning Sixty; Notes; Select Bibliography; Architectural Centre Presidents; Acknowledgements; Contributors
- IndexCopyright
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 30, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1775587207
- OCLC:
- 879946080
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