Athfield Architects by Julia Gatley

Condition: Used, 2 / Very Good (dust jacket) - Inscribed by author and Ian Athfield.

ISBN: 9781869405915 Format: Hardcover Pages: 320 Year: 2012 Publisher: Auckland University Press Publisher Location: (Auckland)

Description: Throughout the years, the team at Athfield Architects has reshaped New Zealand architecture, from Wellington's Civic Square to Jade Stadium. Reflecting on half a century of work, this landmark book combines newly commissioned photography, original architectural drawings, and a rich text informed by extensive archival research and interviews with key figures in the firm. Journeying from the slums of Manila to the streets of postquake Christchurch, this record reveals how New Zealand's leading contemporary architects are transforming the way everyone might live. Editorial Reviews Review This book will be a great addition to every architect's private library-with well-reasoned and well-written words on architecture and buildings that display a certain unhurried, uncluttered calmness, and quiet self-confidence. -Cross Section on Group Architects About the Author Julia Gatley is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, where she teaches architectural history, design, and measured drawing, and the cofounder of the New Zealand branch of DOCOMOMO International-the international working party for the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites, and neighborhoods of the modern movement. She is the author of Group Architects and Long Live the Modern: New Zealand's New Architecture, 1904-1984, and the recipient of a New Z

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