Experiments in modern living : scientists' houses in Canberra, 1950-1970 / Milton Cameron.
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TextPublisher: Canberra : ANU E Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 213 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781921862700
- 192186270X
- 1921862696
- 9781921862694
- Architecture, Modern
- Scientists -- Homes and haunts -- Australia -- Canberra (A.C.T.)
- Architecture -- Australia -- Canberra (A.C.T.)
- Canberra (A.C.T.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- Architecture
- The arts
- ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Contemporary (1945- )
- Architecture
- Architecture, Modern
- Buildings
- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra
- australia
- modern architecture
- history
- architecture
- domestic architecture
- buildings
- canberra
- 720.99471 23
- NA682.M63
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Domestic Voyeurism -- Age of the Masters: Establishing a scientific and intellectual community in Canberra, 1946-1968 -- Paradigm Shift: Boyd and the Fenner House -- Promoting the New Paradigm: Seidler and the Zwar House -- Form Follows Formula: Grounds, Boyd and the Philip House -- Where Science Meets Art: Bischoff and the Gascoigne House -- The Origins of Form: Grounds, Bischoff and the Frankel House -- Afterword: Before and After Science.
The story of how these progressive clients contributed to the innovative design of their houses brings fresh insights to mid-twentieth-century Australian domestic architecture and to Canberra's rich cultural history.
English.
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