| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 220 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| 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? Design Re |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Architecture -- New Zealand -- Wellington -- History
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ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
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Architecture
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New Zealand -- Wellington
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Walker, Paul, author
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| ISBN |
9781775587194 |
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1775587193 |
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