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Sydney brutalism / Heidi Dokulil.
Fine Arts Library NA682.B7 D65 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dokulil, Heidi, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Modern--20th century.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Architecture, Modern--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--History--20th century.
- Brutalism (Architecture)--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--History--20th century.
- Brutalism (Architecture).
- Architectural firms--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--History--20th century.
- Architectural firms.
- Architects--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--History--20th century.
- Architects.
- Sydney (N.S.W.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Sydney (N.S.W.).
- Physical Description:
- x, 225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kensington, NSW : NewSouth Books, 2023.
- Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2023.
- Summary:
- Sydney has some of the world's best examples of brutalist architecture. Heidi Dokulil explores these brutal beauties.While modernism is much celebrated, there's a growing appreciation for the latter years of the movement when Sydney architects and their international peers experimented with raw concrete and brick and brutalism was born.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the rise of the bruts
- How brutalism got its groove back
- Inside the government architect's branch
- Meet the architects
- Crafting the brut
- The domestic bunker
- The battle of Sirius
- Brutalism's vanishing act
- Rebooting Bréton Brut
- Timeline of brutalist buildings in Sydney.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781742236698
- 1742236693
- OCLC:
- 1398466232
- Publisher Number:
- 90100296865
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