Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold photography book reveals how the Christchurch Style movement produced an array of distinctive modernist houses in the New Zealand city in the 1960s.
JH Elworthy House is an example of a Christchurch Style home
Adapted from a Danish housing model, these properties explored building materials and techniques that were highly radical in their context. There s a running joke that someone in 1950s Christchurch owned a book of contemporary Danish homes, and that denied all contact with the wider world, local architects set about endlessly recreating them with the limited materials they had to hand, Arnold told Dezeen.
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Books to buy, borrow and be lost in Wednesday Dec. 23, 2020 I m looking forward to sitting down with I Never Met a Straight Line I Didn t Like, the second book from Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold (and featured in
Viva Volume Two). A collector’s tome in the making, it documents the modern architectural movement that rippled through Christchurch in the 1960s, with 12 incredible homes from the period designed by Warren & Mahoney, Ian Athfield, Nicholas Kennedy and more.