Robin Boyd: Australian Architect, International Critic: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture
Autor Philip Goaden Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 noi 2022
Robin Boyd was Australia's foremost architectural writer and critic from the late 1940s until his death in 1971. He was also a talented architect, designing houses, apartments, commercial and university buildings, as well as exhibits to represent Australia overseas.
This book situates his architecture and writings within the context of post-WWII global architectural discourse and production. A voice from the margins, yet one intimately engaged with contemporary US and European architecture, Boyd's geographic impartiality also drew architectures from Australia and Japan into global dialogue. He also had a local mission: to build an architecture culture and discourse for his own country. But his acuity in design criticism, widely admired at the time, has been overlooked by subsequent historiography. This book will fill that gap - placing Boyd's work and writing into an international context for the first time. The book is structured into three parts: Dwelling; Discourse and Australia. The first, Dwelling, focuses on Boyd's development of his theoretical ideas based on the laboratory of the single-family house. The second, Discourse, outlines Boyd's fight to find a voice for Australian architecture and create a local pedigree for modernism and finally the third, Australia, focuses on Boyd's commitment to a broader national project and the shaping of Australian identity.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350100558
ISBN-10: 1350100552
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 75 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350100552
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 75 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Part
of
the
newBloomsbury
Studies
in
Modern
Architectureseries,
which
brings
to
light
the
work
of
significant
yet
overlooked
modernist
architects
Notă biografică
Philip
Goadis
Chair
of
Architecture
and
Redmond
Barry
Distinguished
Professor
of
Architecture
at
the
University
of
Melbourne.
He
is
the
author
ofNew
Directions
in
Australian
architecture(2005),
editor
ofBates
Smart:
150
years
of
Australian
Architecture(2004),
co-editor
ofModern
Times:
The
Untold
Story
of
Modernism
in
Australia(2008)
andThe
Encyclopedia
of
Australian
Architecture(2011),
and
co-author
ofAn
Unfinished
Experiment
in
Living:
Australian
Houses
1950-65(2017).
Cuprins
ForewordIntroductionAt
the
Edge:
Robin
Boyd
and
the
Challenge
of
Australian
ArchitectureDWELLING1.
Living
in
Australia:
The
Idea
of
Home2.
For
Every
Man
His
Home:
The
Repeatable
House3.
Platforms
and
Parasols:
The
Finding
of
FormDISCOURSE4.
Bringing
it
to
the
People:
Inventing
the
Discourse
of
Australian
Architecture5.
Voice
from
the
Margins:
Infiltrating
the
Discourse
of
International
Architecture6.
Extending
the
Modern:
Promoting
Postwar
Japanese
Architecture7.
Expos
and
Exhibitionism:
Defining
1960s
Architecture
CultureAUSTRALIA8.
The
Critic
and
the
Car:
Taste,
Technology
and
the
Automotive
City9.
New
World
Dilemma:
The
City
and
the
Bush10.
The
Critic
and
the
Capital:
The
Shaping
of
CanberraConclusion:
Against
the
Dying
of
the
Light:
Robin
Boyd,
Aftermath
and
LegacyBibliographyImage
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