Iconographies of 'The House' and the Political Imagination in 1940s New Zealand

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Iconographies of 'The House' and the Political Imagination in 1940s New Zealand

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This article examines the ways in which various images of ‘the house’ were constructed with the support of the state in New Zealand in the late 1940s. The context for these constructions was a large-scale public housing scheme, the influence of international modernism, questions about the role of the architect in public cultural education, and increasing demands for housing and consumer goods following the end of the war. It is argued that these factors were condensed into particular images o...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Journal article

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Article

Date created

2003

Creator

Brickell, Chris

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/6501

Related subjects

architecture / New Zealand / modernism / housing / design / the state / Plischke, Ernst

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