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This thematic presentation of the history of modernist architecture ofqueensland, Australia provides a fascinating case of the interrelationof climatic design and an aspiration for distinct cultural identity fora region.As international modernism swept the world after the Second WorldWar it confronted d
This thematic presentation of the history of modernist architecture ofqueensland, Australia provides a fascinating case of the interrelationof climatic design and an aspiration for distinct cultural identity fora region.As international modernism swept the world after the Second WorldWar it confronted differing landscapes, climates, and buildingtraditions. The case of queensland is exemplary in this regard.queensland provided the challenge of heat and humidity that thetheorists of modernism expected would be a scientific rationale fromwhich regional variations of the movement would grow as Westernprogressive architecture was taken up in the developing world. Butqueensland was a relatively wealthy society with a sophisticatedarchitectural culture and a well established discourse on the climaticdetermination of building form that had already given it a distinctregional identity. Hot Modernism is a thematic history that traces theconflicts and felicities that occurred as international modernism meta strongly developed regional cultural identity.In nine essays written by a group of international scholars andorganised into four thematic sections (Foundations: Modernism andits Critique; Influences; People, Firms & Networks and BuildingProgrammes), Hot Modernism highlights the foundation and growthof modern architecture in queensland, as well as issues that arecommon to post-war architecture internationally, such as urbanform and transport, art and education, civic pride and the rediscoveryof history.The regional flowerings of mid-twentieth century modernism inEurope and the Americas have in recent years been meticulouslydissected and widely published, and Hot Modernism contributesto the emerging understanding that modernism, despite itsinternationalism, was not a monolit hic cultural movement, norone that can be understood at a national level. The vastness ofthe Australian continent, along with its rich climatic, geographicand cultural diversity, necessitates a more nuanced, place-basedapproach. Hot Modernism zooms into this finer grain as it investigatesand expounds the idiosyncratic, regional building practice thatemerged in queensland in the decades following the Second WorldWar. Based on substantial oral history and archival research, thispublication offers engaging first-hand accounts and vivid illustrationsof significant buildings and their under-acknowledged designers.
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