| Description |
328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm |
| Contents |
Inlcudes bibliographical references and index |
| Summary |
This book is about houses - the commonest of all historic artifacts. Houses, being intimately and intensley used by people, are among the most authentic and interesting of heritage documents. They shape cities and towns, suburbs and streets. The History and Design of the Australian House looks at the infulence of environment - the distinctive Australian landscape and climate, which had tended to make design less formal than that of Europe or America. And a country the size of Australia shows considerable regional differences in house types - from the dugouts of the Red Centre, the stilt houses of the tropical north and the cyclone-resistent structures of Darwin, to the sprawling, verandahed homesteads of the inland and the dainty, lace decorated terraces of the cities. Part One is a history of the house in Australia, where the vast majority of houses in both country and city represent the asprirations of a people. Part Two discusses some of the distinctly Australian approaches to the way spaces for 'living in' are fashioned. There has always been a dichotomy about the Australian house, resulting from the fact that Australia's historical roots are in Britain, although the environment is quite different, and more recently, European and Asian Pacific influences have become discernible. Distance has modified things. -- Cover |
| Analysis |
Australia Residences Architectural features, 1800-1970 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 324 |
| Subject |
Architecture, Domestic -- Australia -- History.
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Architecture -- Australia.
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Architecture, Domestic -- Australia.
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Dwellings -- Australia -- History.
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Dwellings -- Australia.
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Housing -- Australia.
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Vernacular architecture -- Australia.
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| Author |
Irving, Robert M. (Robert McCardle), 1930-1989.
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| LC no. |
85131563 |
| ISBN |
0195544358 |
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