Johannesburg Style, Architecture & Society 1880's-1960's
(Clive M Chipkin)
Published by David Philip, South Africa (1993)
Slight wear to dustwrapper, and what looks like a manufacturing defect on the front board. No inscriptions.
First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A good first edition hardcover, red cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong.
Covers the architecture of Johannesburg, set in the context of the history and culture of the city.
336 pages - in English - 154 duotone, color and b/w illustrations - the parallel evolutions of the history and architecture of Johannesburg - Victorian Johannesburg, the Edwardian age, the 1920s, the 1930s, Johannesburg-Paris, township Johannesburg, and, post-war Johannesburg - glossary of terms and index.
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From http://www.artefacts.co.za/main/Buildings/books.php?bookid=335:
Just as we have come to talk about distinctive styles of urban architecture in Europe and North America - such as Chicago Style - so Clive Chipkin argues that Johannesburg has evolved a recognisable style or procession of styles that are as interesting and deserving of serious consideration as those of other major cities of the world. Like Chicago, too, Johannesburg was the progeny of nineteenth-century industrial society, and its history is the story of its development as an industrial metropolis tied to the world market.
In this lively and engaging work, Clive Chipkin sets the architecture of Johannesburg firmly against its historical context and surveys the development of the city's fabric and cultural style up to the 1960s. There are chapters on Victorian architecture - the first in the procession of building styles; on Edwardian architecture - which characterised the mining town of the early twentieth century that was fast growing into a little New York in the mid-1930s, with stunted skyscrapers to emulate their Manhattan paradigms. Further sections deal with the Modern Movement, Township Johannesburg, and Johannesburg's architecture after the Second World War.
As Professor Julian Cooke of the School of Architecture, University of Cape Town, has commented:
"Students and professional architects will find Clive Chipkin's refusal to follow conventional mainstream accounts of Johannesburg's architectural history challenging. General readers will enjoy the way the book romps through politics, music, biography, industry and architecture - very consistent with Johannesburg's mad romp through history."
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Towns on this website found in this book
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Structures on this website found in this book
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Alexander Theater, 1951, Johannesburg.
Anstey's Building - Third, 1935, Johannesburg.
Arop House, 1932 : 1935-1936, Johannesburg.
Broadcast House, 1935, Johannesburg.
Chamber of Mines Building, 1950-1954, Johannesburg.
Chamber of Mines Building, 1894-1895, Johannesburg.
Chrysler House, 1938, Johannesburg.
Colosseum Theatre, 1931, Central, Johannesburg.
Courtyards, The, c1969, Craighall Park, Johannesburg.
Daventry Court, 1933-1934, Killarney, Johannesburg.
Davidson's Mansions, 1923-1925, Johannesburg.
Dunkeld Mansions, 1939, Johannesburg.
Elephant Trading Building, 1919-1923, Johannesburg.
Elgin Mansions, c1935, Johannesburg.
Escom House (Van Eck Bldg), 1937, Central, Johannesburg.
Exploration Building, 1897, Johannesburg.
Friedenskirche (German Lutheran Church), 1912, Johannesburg.
Gallo Building, 1920s : 1936 : 1949, Johannesburg.
General Post Office, 1897 : 1905, Johannesburg.
Great Synagogue, 1912-1914, Johannesburg.
Harvard Buildings, 1928, Johannesburg.
House Archdeacon and Mrs Furse: Bishopskop, 1904, Parktown, Johannesburg.
House Grinker, 1939, Parkwood, Johannesburg.
House Hanson, 1938, Houghton, Johannesburg.
House Schwartz, 1960, Parktown West, Johannesburg.
Lhenveolan, pre-1944, Killarney, Johannesburg.
Main Post Office - Jeppe Street, 1933-1935, Johannesburg.
Market Theater, 1976, Johannesburg.
Markham's Building, 1896, Johannesburg.
Medical Centre, 1946, Central, Johannesburg.
Normandie Court, 1937, Johannesburg.
Northwards, 1904 : 1912, Parktown, Johannesburg.
Palace Building, 1889, Johannesburg.
Penmore Towers, 1974, Central, Johannesburg.
Radoma Court, 1937, Johannesburg.
Rand Club - Third, 1902-1904, Johannesburg.
Reading Court, 1936, Berea, Johannesburg.
Southern Life Building, 1938-1939, Johannesburg.
Transvaalsche Bank en Handelsvereeniging (later Security House), 1906, Johannesburg.
Volkskas, Market Square, 1946, Central, Johannesburg.
Washington House, 1937, Johannesburg.
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