New Directions in Australian Architecture, by Philip Goad & Patrick Binham-Hall (Pesaro Publishing 2001), presents and analyses 14 provocative architects.
The common thread that links Australian architecture is an ethos of willing experiment. This is not an accusation of flippancy, or a lack of consistency in ideas. There is about contemporary Australian architecture, a freshness and an openness of brow that comes with the territory. It is indeed a continent relatively unsettled, underdeveloped, and poised at the edges of world cultures. Australia is neither quite East nor West, but it is undeniably part of Asia. It is a place that is in a simultaneous and constant state of, on the one hand, searching for identity and on the other, a proudly parochial defence of difference.
– Philip Goad and Patrick Binham-Hall, New Directions in Australian Architecture (Pesaro Publishing, 2001), excerpt from the Introduction, p.10
The text is in English. The book is richly illustrated with colour photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy is in good condition. The pages are clean; no markings, only some slight toning on the edges of the pages. The binding is fine. The dust jacket has some edge wear, two small tears around the spine, and some usual signs of shelf wear and use.
