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Athfield Architects

Author(s): Julia Gatley

architecture

‘Architecture is a social statement that has a responsibility beyond the building, the client and the architect.’ – Ian Athfield


Over many years, Ian Athfield and his team at Athfield Architects have reshaped New Zealand architecture – from the Buck House at Te Mata Estate to Wellington’s Civic Square, from Jade Stadium to Athfield’s own sprawling settlement on the Khandallah hills. Reflecting on half a century of work, Julia Gatley’s landmark book introduces a major body of architecture that will lead readers through modernism, postmodernism and beyond. Its four-part structure traces Athfield’s formative years; the fledgling firm and its radical 1960s and ’70s houses; its important break into commercial work; and finally its impact in the public, urban and institutional realms.


Athfield Architects combines newly commissioned photography, evocative original architectural drawings and a rich text informed by extensive archival research and interviews with key figures in the firm. Taking us from the slums of Manila to the streets of post-quake Christchurch, this major book shows how New Zealand’s leading contemporary architect is transforming the way we all might live.


 


Product Information

Dr Julia Gatley is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at The University of Auckland. She has edited two bestselling and critically acclaimed books for Auckland University Press, Long Live the Modern: New Zealand’s New Architecture, 1904–1984 (2008) and Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture (2010).

General Fields

  • : 9781869405915
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : 2.43
  • : May 2012
  • : 260x290mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Julia Gatley
  • : Hardback
  • : 1st edition
  • : en
  • : 720.6093
  • : Very Good
  • : 309
  • : colour illustrations