
Johannesburg style : architecture & society, 1880s-1960s
Title:
Johannesburg style : architecture & society, 1880s-1960s
Author:
Chipkin, Clive M.
ISBN:
9780864862211
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Publication Information:
Cape Town : David Philip Publishers ; Johannesburg : Thorold's Africana Books [distributor], 1993.
Physical Description:
vii, 335 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Contents:
1. Victorian Johannesburg -- The Lost World -- Age of Capitalism -- Victorian Prelude -- Beginnings -- Gold Fever -- Victorian Townscape -- Victorian Architecture -- 1890's Residential Boom -- Trek to the towns -- Compounds of the Rich -- 2. Edwardian Age -- Imperial tide -- Herbert Baker -- Edwardian Johannesburg -- Edwardian Splendour -- Johannesburg-Pretoria-New Delhi -- 3. 1920's Johannesburg -- Hegemony, not modernity -- Cape Riviera -- Georgian Revival -- New wine, old bottles -- 1920's classicism -- Americanisms -- 1929 -- 4. 1930's Johannesburg -- Discrediting the old -- Metropolis -- Art Deco Johannesburg -- Schlesinger know-how -- 1936 -- Exhibition style -- Flight -- Monolithic Johannesburg -- The National Question -- Modern in modernisation -- Skyscrapers -- 5. Johannesburg-Paris -- Origins -- New architecture -- Houghton Villas -- Corbusier in the suburbs -- Rue de Sevres -- Alternative modern -- Climax -- 6. Township Johannesburg -- Migration -- Locations -- Black areas -- New Botshabelo -- Marabi Age -- Call of the city -- World of strangers -- Native housing -- Destruction of Sophiatown -- 7. Post-war Johannesburg -- Revaluations -- Hillbrow Vernacular -- Brazil builds -- Little Brazil -- Berea Scale -- Regional office style -- Precincts -- Alternatives -- Architektura -- Cowin and continuity -- Perret Interlude -- Johannesburg-Pretoria -- Out of Africa -- Patio Houses -- Johannesburg-Berlin -- Johannesburg-New York -- Johannesburg-Philadelphia.
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