| Description |
264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
Contents: Introduction -- Essay: Current surges in Australian architecture -- Tendencies: Free geometrics - Matchstick mannerism - Cubic abstraction - Fragments, layers, collage - Romantic austerity -- Types: Public Works: Icons of education - Public buildings - Libraries - Hospitals - Indigenous pavilions - Halls of worship - Environmental art - Traffic Structures -- Commerce and leisure: Metropolitan magnets - District hubs - Public living rooms - Tourist checkpoints - Recreation pavilions - Sydney Olympics venues -- Revisions of history: Heritage transformations -- Recycled wharves - New hats -- Housing: Vertical living - Residential blocks - Villages - Queensland farmhouses - Tropical tin huts - Sydney's white houses - Skeletons and skins - Rustic retreats - Open houses - Suburban swerves - Warehouses -- Essay: Exotic Australia: The line and the place -- Exemplars: Civic symbols: Archery pavilion - Aboriginal place - Tower complex - Academic library - Resurrection City - Rail terminal - University ensemble - Exhibition Hall - Visitor centre - Apartment block -- Houses: Temple of breezes - The public home - Rural ruin - Ambiguous zones - Beach cabin - Suburban citadel - Pitching camp - Voluptuous domesticity - On the ledge - Bush craft - Courtyard compound - Pastoral homestead |
| Summary |
Recording some two hundred of the most significant buildings and places, this book captures the most exciting work that has been completed in Australia since 1994. Far beyond the stereotypical tin sheds and farmhouses, these projects range from the breezy east-coast houses to the stadia built for Sydney's Olympics |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
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Architecture -- Australia -- 20th century.
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Architecture -- Australia.
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Architecture, Australian
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Australia.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Architecture, Modern -- Australia -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Johnson, Chris, 1945-
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| LC no. |
00002162 |
| ISBN |
050034177X |
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050034177X |
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