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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,…
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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…
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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…
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