A History of New Zealand Architecture (3rd revised edition 2003)

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Description

This updated and re-jacketed edition reviews the latest developments in New Zealand's rich architectural history and explores the way a country's architecture reflects the spirit and aspirations of its inhabitants. First published 1991. This third edition 2003.

Table of contents

Raupo, timber and stone; the birth of Antipodean culture; cottages, villas and country houses; the architecture of prosperity; changing influences in domestic architecture; the conservative solution; modern, moderne and deco; the search for the vernacular; architecture as individualism; experiment, debate and demolition; responses to change.

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General Fields

• ISBN : 9781869589585
• Publisher : Hachette New Zealand Ltd
• Imprint : Hodder Moa
• Publication date : August 2003
• Dimensions : 288mm X 254mm
• Produced in : New Zealand
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Illustrations : colour photos
• Pages : 248
• Dewey classification : 720.993
• Edition : Revised edition
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Peter Shaw