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Johannesburg Style - Architecture & Society 1880s - 1960s - Clive M. Chipkin - David Philip, Cape Town - 1993, first edition - 335pp, index, numerous black & white and colour photographs.
Hardcover and dustcover in excellent, near mint condition.
This review is from:Johannesburg Style: Architecture and Society 1880s-1960s (Hardcover)
Clive Chipkin does not simply succeed in furnishing a fascinating and passionate history of South African architecture, his masterly work, amongst other things, reveals the ambivalence of the modern movement when deployed in a colonial context. This is one of the most important texts to have appeared in the last few years.
A must have for anyone interested in Architecure and Design or in Johannesburg’s evolution from mining shanty town to Metropolis.
CONTENTS:
PART ONE: Victorian Johannesburg
PART TWO: Edwardian Age
PART THREE: 1920s Johannesburg
PART FOUR: 1930s Johannesburg
PART FIVE: Johannesburg - Paris
PART SIX: Township Johanesburg
PART SEVEN: Post-war Johannesburg