John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense

Walker, Paul

ISBN 10: 0674278569 / ISBN 13: 9780674278561

Verlag: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2023

In. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ria9780674278561_new

Inhaltsangabe:

Though he garnered global praise at the peak of his career from 1960 to 1990, Australian architect John Andrews faced waning fame as postmodern cultural transformations challenged modernist design values, and wider social and economic changes led to a withdrawal of government-funded institutional commissions. Yet his body of work is a remarkable achievement that deserves to be better known.

Following a path from Australia to the United States and Canada and back again, John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense examines his most important buildings and reveals how the internationalization of architecture during this period was an unexpectedly dispersed geographical phenomenon, following more complex flows and localized progressions than earlier modernist ideas that travelled from center to periphery, metropole to outpost. Andrews negotiated the advent of postmodernism not by ignoring it, but by cultivating approaches that this new era foregrounded—identity, history, place—within the formal vocabularies of modernism. As Andrews assumed wider public roles and took appointments that allowed him to shape architectural education, he influenced design culture beyond his own personal portfolio. This book presents his legacy traversing local and international scenes and exemplifying late-modern developments of architecture while offering both generational continuities and discontinuities with what came after.

John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense features essays from Paul Walker, Mary Lou Lobsinger, Peter Scriver and Antony Moulis, Philip Goad, and Paolo Scrivano, along with nearly 100 new photographs from visual artist Noritaka Minami of existing buildings designed by Andrews in North America and Australia.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Paul Walker teaches architectural history and design at the University of Melbourne.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense
Verlag: Harvard Graduate School of Design
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New