Ken Woolley and Ancher, Mortlock & Woolley
Ken Woolley and Ancher, Mortlock & Woolley

Author: Ken Woolley

Publisher: Images

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781864700244

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Ken Woolley is an Australian architect who early in his career became involved in major projects such as the Fisher Library (Sulman Award) and the State Office Block. In 1962 Woolley's home at Mosman won the Wilkinson Award and he was involved with proje

Conservation of Modern Architecture
Conservation of Modern Architecture

Author: Susan Macdonald

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1317704908

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The importance of protecting significant buildings from decay and destruction would seem to be undeniable. Yet whilst the majority of buildings of merit constructed before the Second World War have been highlighted as worthy of protection there is much indifference, and in some cases hostility towards many important post-war buildings. These deserve to receive wider formal recognition but in many cases continue to be mistreated or even demolished.This book examines many of the philosophical and practical issues surrounding the conservation of modern buildings and also the problems faced by building practitioners in dealing with buildings constructed in a wider range of styles and materials than at any other time. Climate change in particular has forced change in the way in which we think about buildings, with the pressures to address issues of energy efficiency becoming more urgent and likely to have consequences that may alter the perceived architectural and historic interest of modern and traditional buildings alike.

150
150

Author: Geoffrey London

Publisher: University of Western Australia Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9781742586694

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Architect-designed houses of the period 1950-65 proposed an innovative response to the social, economic, and climatic conditions of post-war Australia. At the same time they embraced the aesthetic, technological, and egalitarian aspirations of modern architecture. An Unfinished Experiment in Living traces the emergence of this architectural phenomenon in Australia, documenting the full range of its expression: from the postwar optimism of the early 1950s through to the affluence of the 1960s. It is a catalogue of the most significant houses of the period. It includes comprehensive plans and period photographs of 150 houses from around Australia, dating from a time when the great Australian dream was the single family house. This book puts forward new research founded on the premise that the most significant houses of the 1950s and 60s represent an unfinished and undervalued experiment in modern living. Issues such as the open plan, the changing nature of the family, the embrace of advances in technology, the use of the courtyard, and the orientation of the house to capture sun and privacy, were valuable and critical lessons. This is a compelling reminder of their continuing relevance. [Subject: Architecture, Design, Australian History, Sociology]

Art Works
Art Works

Author: Ken Woolley

Publisher: Images Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781876907792

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Ken Woolley likes to draw. He draws with apparent ease and style the large-scale natural and urban landscape; buildings of architectural merit, significant character and the vernacular; profile, surface and detail. He draws what he sees in distant lands

The Architecture of East Australia
The Architecture of East Australia

Author: Bill MacMahon

Publisher: Edition Axel Menges

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9783930698905

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The story of Australian architecture might be said to parallel the endeavours of Australians to adapt & reconcile themselves with their home & neighbours. It is the story of 200 years of coming to terms with the land: of adaptation, insight & making do. Early settlers were poorly provisioned, profoundly ignorant of the land & richly prejudiced towards its peoples. They pursued many paths over many terrains. From the moist temperate region of Tasmania with heavy Palladian villas to the monsoonal north with open, lightweight stilt houses, the continent has induced most different regional building styles.

A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture
A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture

Author: Elie G. Haddad

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 1351962590

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1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by seminal texts by Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi, and gave rise to the first revisionary movement following Modernism. Bringing together leading experts in the field, this book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the developments in architecture from 1960 to 2010. It consists of two parts: the first section providing a presentation of major movements in architecture after 1960, and the second, a geographic survey that covers a wide range of territories around the world. This book not only reflects the different perspectives of its various authors, but also charts a middle course between the 'aesthetic' histories that examine architecture solely in terms of its formal aspects, and the more 'ideological' histories that subject it to a critique that often skirts the discussion of its formal aspects.

Architects for the New Millennium
Architects for the New Millennium

Author:

Publisher: Images Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781864700794

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A celebration of architecture from around the world profiling todays leading firms. The top one hundred firms.