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Author Cameron, Milton.

Title Experiments in modern living : scientists' houses in Canberra, 1950-1970 / Milton Cameron.

Imprint Canberra : ANU E Press, 2012.
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 213 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Language English.
Subject 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 -- Australie -- Canberra.
Architecture.
The arts.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Contemporary (1945- )
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Buildings
Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmP6BTMTWWrWJdDDTDDv3
Indexed Term australia.
modern architecture.
history.
architecture.
domestic architecture.
buildings.
canberra.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 192186270X
ISBN 9781921862700 (electronic bk.)
192186270X (electronic bk.)
1921862696
9781921862694
Standard No. 10.26530/OAPEN_459101 doi
459101
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GBVCP 865745684
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