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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
The rise, fall and rise of the state house, Ian Lochhead
Beyond the State: New Zealand State Houses from Modest to Modern Bill McKay and Andrea Stevens (Simon Devitt photographs) Penguin Books, $75.00, ISBN 9780143570653 In the catalogue of the exhibition, Homebuilding 1814-1954: the New Zealand tradition, held at the Auckland…
Tagged with: Andrea Stevens, Bill McKay, Ian Lochhead, Issue 106, Penguin Books, Simon Devitt, Winter 2014
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Pacific art on the world stage, Ian Lochhead
Art in Oceania: A New History Peter Brunt and Nicholas Thomas (eds) Thames and Hudson, $130.00, ISBN 9780500239018 When New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) opened its landmark exhibition Arts of the South Seas in 1946, the war in…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Ian Lochhead, Issue 101, Nicholas Thomas, Peter Brunt, Thames and Hudson
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
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