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The changing of the guard: The social and cultural reflections of community in 1970s Melbourne architecture

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posted on 2024-11-01, 02:49 authored by Douglas Evans
[article extract] In Europe and North America, as in Australia, the 1970s were a decade of architectural transition. In the 1950s and 1960s various manifestations of late modernist architecture held sway and in Australia a leading proponent of one type of regional-modernist architecture was the Melbourne architect Kevin Borland. Borland, by the 1970s in mid-career, rose to national prominence with a creative, highly-personal and somewhat romantic form of rough-hewn regional modernist architecture. Throughout the 1970s, his much awarded, widely published and exhibited residential and small-scale institutional commissions were acknowledged as a high point of creative Australian architecture. However, during this decade, a tidal wave of post-modern theory and practice swept through architecture, submerging the various pre-existing manifestations of an apparently vitiated late modernism. In Australia, the tidal wave arrived middecade and the initial focus of postmodern architectural change, and the site of its most vigorous and protracted development, was Melbourne.

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Journal

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Volume

15

Issue

1

Start page

39

End page

53

Total pages

15

Publisher

Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand

Place published

Adelaide

Language

English

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Copyright in individual articles remains with the respective authors.

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2005001448

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2009-02-27

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