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Architecture from the edge : the 20th century in Tasmania / Barry McNeill, Leigh Woolley.
Record number:
55427
Call No:
720.9946 ARC
Author/s:
McNeill, Barry.
;
Woolley, Leigh.
Subject:
Architecture - Australia - 20th century.
;
Architecture - Australia - Tasmania - 20th century.
;
Architecture, Modern - 20th century.
;
Architecture, Modern - 20th century - Tasmania.
;
Architects - Tasmania.
;
Architecture - Tasmania.
;
Tasmania - Buildings, structures, etc.
;
Tasmania - History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 112)
Contents: 1. Valuing the 20th century -- 2. Parochial backwater or lively edge? -- 3. Reactions to the 19th century -- 4. Legacies of the 19th century -- 5. Art Deco and the transition to modernism -- 6. Austerity and morality: the triumph of modernism -- 7. the breakdown of midernism -- 8. The post-modern era. Epilogue: where to from here?
Year:
c2002.
Publication details:
Hobart, Tas. : Montpelier Press
Description:
112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
ISBN/ISSN:
1876597046 (pbk.); $70.00 1876597097;
Type:
monograph
Abstract:
An important book that seeks to evaluate the importance of Tasmania's architectural gems that so clearly reflect the confidence of many of its architects in the twentieth century.
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