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Zeal and crusade : the modern movement in Wellington / edited by John Wilson.

Title
Zeal and crusade : the modern movement in Wellington / edited by John Wilson.
Publication
Christchurch, N.Z. : Waihora Press, [1996?]

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Additional Authors
Wilson, John.
Description
112 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
Thirteen essays about modernism in Wellington which focus on architecture of the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's.
Subject
  • Architecture, Modern > 20th century > Wellington
  • Architecture > Wellington
  • Wellington (N.Z.) > Buildings, structures, etc
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Modernising Wellington / Ben Schrader -- For(war)d thinking / Julia Gatley -- Europe to Wellington / Anne Beaglehole -- The urban & urbane / Linda Tyler -- A brilliant spectacle -- Greg Bowron -- A break with tradition / Bruce Petry -- For modern living / Julia Gatley -- A well kept secret / Wayne Nelson -- A breath of fresh air / Lesleigh Salinger -- Order from chaos / Paul Walker -- A contemporary dwelling / Julia Gatley -- Simplified & scientific / Greg Bowron -- Modernity arrives / Linda Tyler.
  • The Ford building, Seaview -- Ernst & Anna Plischke -- Ester and Helmut Einhorn -- Ernst Plischke's Kahn house -- The Centennial Exhibition buildings -- The State Fire Insurance Building -- Government blocks of flats -- The fortress at Wrights Hill -- The Architectural Centre Inc. -- Replanning Te Aro -- The Firth house -- Massey house.
ISBN
0908714084 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^97119379^
OCLC
  • 38010797
  • SCSB-11414725
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library