Planning and Building Down Under

New Settlement Strategy and Current Architectural Practice in Australia

By Harry Seidler
Series: Human Settlement Issues
Publisher: UBC Press
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774845151, 48 pages, January 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774857932, 48 pages, January 1978

Table of contents

Foreword / H. Peter Oberlander

Introduction / Robert K. McLeod

1. New Settlement Strategy in Australia

2. Current Architectural Practice in Australia

Epilogue / Donald E. Olsen

Description

Internationally renowned architect Harry Seidler discusses the aims
emerging from the United Nations Habitat Conference as they relate both
practically and theoretically to major metropolitan and regional growth
centres he has developed in Australia. Seidler's planning designs
emphasize the "cohesion of the whole" -- harmonizing building
forms and landscapes with the age-old concept of pedestrian town
centres.