| Description |
1 online resource (181 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Architecture Ser |
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Routledge Research in Architecture Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Uncharted territory -- Part I Art -- Chapter 1 At world's end: An architect's art in Australia -- A distant reception -- 'French Painting Today' -- Le Corbusier's global exhibitions -- Reactions of media and public -- Le Corbusier, Léger and the art critics -- Silence in the profession -- European art seen locally -- Synthesis in the Antipodes -- Travels of a muralnomad -- The governance of art |
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An uneven reception -- Notes -- Chapter 2 From Paris to Sydney via Hellebæk: The art commission for J ø rn Utzon's Sydney Opera House -- 'Off the shelf' and 'purpose-made' -- The seed of the art commission -- Meetings and negotiations -- Producing the Sydney commission -- The Opera House enamels -- Preparing Les dés sont jetés -- Background and foreground -- Utzon and Les dés sont jetés -- A tale of two tapestries -- Notes -- Part II Architecture -- Chapter 3 Eyes that see differently: Reactions of the profession, public and press -- Out of the distance |
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Le Corbusier's early reception by architects abroad -- Florence Taylor's critique -- Views from the Australian profession -- Views from the New Zealand profession -- Modernism as style -- Le Corbusier in the public eye -- The local relevance of Le Corbusier -- Between the press and the profession -- Le Corbusier: dismiss or debate? -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Learning by distance: Gauging influence in Australia and New Zealand -- At the fringe -- Le Corbusier and New Zealand's Group -- Le Corbusier via émigrés to Australia -- The case of Harry Seidler -- Two letters to Paris -- A chance meeting |
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Seidler's architectural tours -- Projects and analogues -- The image of the modern architect -- Le Corbusier and localism -- Notes -- Part III Urbanism -- Chapter 5 Maisons en serie for Australia: Reinterpreting the postwar house -- A Mission for housing -- Le Corbusier's contacts -- Re-proposing 'Les Murondins' -- Prouvé and prefabrication -- Carl Boester and American postwar housing -- Outcome of the housing mission -- The fate of the Murondins -- Brutalism, Le Corbusier and 'An Australian Identity' -- Technology, social need and aesthetics -- Notes |
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Chapter 6 Circulating ideas for new cities: From Adelaide to Chandigarh, between and beyond -- Witnessing, unpremeditated -- Networks and opportunities -- Travels through agronomy -- An encounter of experts -- The record of a city -- Finding Adelaide -- Adelaide and the 'garden city' ideal -- Adelaide and the 'Functional City' paradigm -- Adelaide and the plan for Bogotá -- Adelaide and Chandigarh -- Authorised precedents -- Le Corbusier's urbanism for Adelaide -- Walter Bunning's Homes in the Sun -- The case of Gordon Stephenson -- Perth's Metropolitan Plan 1955 -- Manifesting global vision |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317107163 |
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1317107160 |
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