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Consecrated ground, Ian Lochhead
Historic Churches: A Guide to Over 60 Early New Zealand Churches Linda Burgess (Robert Burgess photographer) Random House, $50.00, ISBN 9781775537335 Worship: A History of New Zealand Church Design Bill McKay (Jane Ussher photographer) Godwit, $85.00, ISBN 9781775538363 One of…
Tagged with: Bill McKay, Godwit, Ian Lochhead, Issue 114, Jane Ussher, Linda Burgess, Random House, Robert Burgess, Winter 2016
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Brave new worlds, Ian Lochhead
Vertical Living: The Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington Julia Gatley and Paul Walker Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781869408152 The very notion of so rapid and wholesale a change to a city’s fabric … is a high-risk undertaking,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2015, Ian Lochhead, Issue 109, Julia Gatley, Paul Walker
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Houses and homes, Robin Skinner
Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture Julia Gatley (ed) Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869404666 Home Work: Leading New Zealand Architects’ Own Houses John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds Godwit, $75.00, ISBN 9781869621667 Sixty years ago The Group…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Godwit, Issue 94, John Walsh, Julia Gatley, Patrick Reynolds, Robin Skinner, Winter 2011
Posted in Architecture, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Architecture, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
An other architecture, Mike Austin
Whare Karakia: Maori Church Building, Decoration and Ritual in Aotearoa New Zealand 1834–1863 Richard A Sundt Auckland University Press, $69.99, ISBN 9781869404567 One of the perennial architectural questions concerns the international versus the regional, the foreign versus the indigenous,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 92, Mike Austin, Richard A Sundt, Summer 2010
Posted in Architecture, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Architecture, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Strength and integrity, Graeme McIndoe
Long Live the Modern: New Zealand’s New Architecture 1904-1984 Julia Gatley (ed) Auckland University Press, $64.99, ISBN 9781869404154 In this unashamedly celebratory volume, Julia Gatley has exercised a judicious eye in selecting and describing virtuoso architecture from all eras. Long…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Graeme McIndoe, Issue 87, Julia Gatley, Spring 2009
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
The sparkling, the homely and the cool, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
Built for Us: The Work of Government and Colonial Architects, 1860s to 1960s Lewis E Martin University of Otago Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877276642 We Call It Home: A History of State Housing in New Zealand Ben Schrader Reed, $39.99, ISBN…
Canterbury’s colonial idealism, Russell Walden
A Dream of Spires: Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival Ian Lochhead, Canterbury University Press, $79.95, ISBN 0 908812 85 X Ian Lochhead’s Dream of Spires is a long book glorifying the colonial architect Benjamin Mountfort (1825-1898). It has been…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Ian Lochhead, Issue 44, Russell Walden
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Built-in anodyne, Hamish Keith
Architects at Home — 30 New Zealand Architects and their Houses Adrienne Rewi & Euan Sarginson Shoal Bay Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 908704 32 1 The Bungalow in New Zealand Jeremy Ashford Viking, $34.95, ISBN 0-670-85673-8 Wellington’s Old Buildings David…
Tagged with: Adrienne Rewi, David Kernohan, Dunmore Press, Euan Sarginson, Hamish Keith, Issue 30, Jeremy Ashford, Lewis E Martin, Shoal Bay Press, Tony Kellaway, Victoria University Press, Viking, Winter 1997
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
From the marae to modernism: the buildings in which we live, Pam Wilson
New Zealand Architecture from Polynesian Beginnings to 1990 Peter Shaw, photographs by Robin Morrison, Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1991, $59.95 ‘New Zealand’s European-derived architectural history may be short but it should be accorded the same respect we now give as…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 4, Pam Wilson, Peter Shaw, Robin Morrison
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Pinning down New Zealand architecture, Christoper Vine
Looking at the Architecture of New Zealand Terence Hodgson Grantham House, Wellington, 1990, $39.95 Though architecture is the most public of the arts and lays claim to being the mistress of them all to boot, it is ill served by…
Tagged with: Christopher Vine, Grantham House, Issue 2, Terence Hodgson, Winter 1991
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
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