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Long Live the Modern
Long Live the Modern

Long Live the Modern

New Zealand's New Architecture, 1904–84

Edited by Julia Gatley

ARCHITECTURE

240 Pages, 12 x 11

Cloth, $44.95 (US $44.95) (CA $49.95)

Publication Date: December 2008

ISBN 9781869404154

Rights: US, CA, UK, EUR, ASIA & ZA

Auckland University Press (Dec 2008)

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Overview

From houses, factories, bridges, and apartment blocks to chapels, motorways, and memorials, this pictorial history celebrates 180 iconic New Zealand buildings, sites, and neighborhoods, designed by many of the nation's most famous architects. The 46 contributing writers document each building's design, construction, context, and history, assisted by historic and contemporary photographs and floor plans. Representing a unique and precious part of New Zealand's history, this showcase reveals an acclimatized, vernacular style singularly adapted to suit the New Zealand climate and conditions.

Reviews

"Opens up modernism as it occurred in New Zealand . . . to allow it to be understood at a glance."  —Architecture New Zealand

Author Biography

Julia Gatley is an architectural historian who lectures at the University of Auckland. She is a member of DOCOMOMO International (the international working party for the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites, and neighborhoods of the modern movement) and the coeditor of Interstices 08.