Posts Tagged ‘the Group’
Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
I first discovered the elegant curve of the Symonds St Flats in the early 1980s (more…)
Tags:Architectural Centre, Auckland School of Architecture, Auckland University, Bates Smart McCutcheon, Berhampore Flats, Boyd, Cedric Firth, Centennial Flats, Department of Housing Construction, Dixon St Flats, Frederick Newman, Fredrich Neumann, Gordon Wilson, Gordon Wilson Flats, government architect, Grey's Avenue Flats, Greys Ave Flats, Grounds, Harry Seidler, Haywards Substation, Housing New Zealand, Housing NZ, Hutt Valley, Imi Porsolt, Ken Davis, Labour government, McIntyre, McLean Flats, Modernism, Mount Eden, My favourite modernist building, Otago University, Post-Modernism, Romberg, School of Dentistry, state housing, State Housing in New Zealand, Stephenson & Turner, Symonds Street Flats, Symons St Flats, the Group, University of Auckland, University of Otago, Upper Grays Avenue Flats, Victoria University
Posted in Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings, HISTORY | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 24th, 2016
So why modernism is important? (more…)
Tags:A.R.D. Fairburn, Auckland, Bill Toomath, Bill Wilson, Gordon Wilson, Gordon Wilson Flats, Housing Division, John Scott, mass production, Miles Warren, Ministry of Works, open planning, standardisation, structural grid, Takapuna, the Group, The Terrace
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Thursday, November 5th, 2015
Yes, so we’re 70 next year, and the committee is working away at thinking about what this means and how we should celebrate. (more…)
Tags:Amsterdam Centre for Architecture, Architectural Centre, Architectural League, Architectural Research Group, Architecture Centre, Architecture Foundation, Architekturforum Aedes, Architekturzentrum Wien, Arkitera Architecture Center, Auckland Architectural Association, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Centre of Contemporary Architecture, Chicago Architectural Foundation, CIAM, Congres International d'Architecture Moderne, Danish Architecture Centre, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, MARS, Modern Architectural Research Group, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Philadelphia Centre for Architecture, TAC, Te Putahi: Christchurch Centre for Architecture & City-making, Terreform ONE, The Architects Collaborative, the Group
Posted in AC History, Architectural History | 2 Comments »
Monday, September 7th, 2015
post by Gill Matthewson
Marilyn Reynolds née Hart passed away on the 31st of August, an event that cannot go unremarked in architectural circles because she was one of the six signatories to the famed Group constitution in 1946. (more…)
Tags:Auckland architecture school, Ian Reynolds, KRTA, Marilyn Hart, Marilyn Reynolds, Stephanie Bonny, the Group, women and architecture
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Of course everyone knows that the Arch Centre was born – no doubt on a dark and windy Wellington evening – on Tuesday the 23rd of July 1946 in the Baronia Lounge. (more…)
Tags:Andrew Leach, Architectural Centre, Bank of England, Bank of New Zealand, Baronia Lounge, Barry Martin, Bell Laboratories, Benjamin Spock, Bikini Atoll, bikinis, Cedric Firth, Charles Fearnley, Cisitalia 202 GT, Daniel Libeskind, David Porter, Earl Flosdorf, ENIAC, Ernst Plischke, Farnsworth House, Fergus Shepherd, freeze-dried foods, Geoff Nees, Gordon Wilson, Graham Dawson, Graham Kofoed, Helmet Einhorn, Ian Calder, John Cox, John Gates, John Mauchly, Kaufmann Desert House, Le Corbusier, Mensa International, Mies van der Rohe, NZ National Orchestra, Resene, Richard Neutra, Rob Fantl, the Group, UN General Assembly, Unite d'Habitation, Wellington Film Society
Posted in AC History, HISTORY, RANTING | 3 Comments »
