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Title Hot Modernism : Queensland Architecture 1945-1975 / edited by John Macarthur, Deborah van der Plaat, Janina Gosseye, Andrew Wilson
Published London : Artifice books on architecture, [2015]
London : Artifice Books on Architecture, 2015
©2015
©2015

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Description 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Contents note continued: 9.Healthy Minds in Healthy Bodies: Building Queensland's Community, One Weatherboard at a Time / Janina Gosseye -- Visual Essay Urbanisation -- Image credits
Machine generated contents note: FOUNDATIONS: MODERNISM AND ITS CRITIQUE -- 1.Bringing Architecture to the People: Defining Architectural Practice and Culture in Postwar Queensland / Andrew Wilson -- 2.Angry Young Architects: Counterculture and the Critique of Modernism in Brisbane, 1967--1972 / John Macarthur -- Visual Essay Climate and Regionalism -- INFLUENCES -- 3.Twentieth-Century (Sub) Tropical Housing: Framing Climate, Culture and Civilisation in Post-War Queensland / Elizabeth Musgrave -- 4.The Discovery of Queensland's Architectural History / Robert Riddel -- 6.International influences in Postwar Queensland: Protagonists, Destinations and Models / Andrew Wilson -- PEOPLE, FIRMS AND NETWORKS -- 6.Architectural Practice in Post-War Queensland / Donald Watson -- 7.̀Shabby' Careers? Women Working in Architecture in Post-War Queensland / Deborah van der Plaat -- Visual Essay Lifestyle -- BUILDING PROGRAMMES -- 8.Civic Visions for Brisbane / Robert Riddel --
Summary In nine essays written by a group of international scholars and organised into four thematic sections (Foundations: modernism and its critique; Influences; People, firms and networks and Building programs. Hot Modernism highlights the foundation and growth of modern architecture in Queensland, as well as issues that are common to post-war architecture internationally, such as urban form and transport, art and education, civic pride and the rediscovery of history
Analysis Australian
Notes Part of the Asia Pacific Design Library. QSL
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references and index
Subject Architectural design -- Social aspects -- Australia -- Queensland.
Architecture and society.
Architecture -- Australia -- Queensland -- 20th century.
Architecture -- Australia -- Queensland -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture -- Australia -- History -- 21st century.
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Australia -- Queensland.
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
Architecture, Australian -- 20th century
Buildings -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.
Architecture, Modern -- 21st century.
Modern movement (Architecture) -- Australia -- Queensland.
Modern movement (Architecture) -- Australia -- 20th century.
Public buildings -- Australia -- Queensland -- Design and construction.
SUBJECT Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Buildings, structures, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004820 -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001272
Genre/Form Illustrated works.
Author Gosseye, Janina, editor
John, Macarthur, editor
Van der Plaat, Deborah, editor
Wilson, Andrew, editor
LC no. 2015513326
ISBN 1908967587
9781908967589