Spanish Mission Hastings - Styles of Five Decades by Peter Shaw; Peter Hallett
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Christchurch Architecture - A Walking Guide by Patrick John And Reynolds Walsh
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
SIXTY BUILDINGS AND SIX ROUTES AROUND A REBUILDING CITY. The second in the series of guides to New Zealands urban architecture by the wellknown team of writer John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds. This handy pocket-sized book suggests a series of city walks that take in both the historicbuilding ...Show more
Open Home - A Comprehensive Guide to the New Zealand House by Dave Cull
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Buildings of New Zealanders by Michael Fowler; Robert Van de Voort; Conrad Sims
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
John Kinder: A Taste for Architecture by John Stacpoole
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Kinder Lecture 1998 | Reading Level: very good
The Building: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu by Liz Grant
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Auckland Architecture - A Walking Guide by John Walsh
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
In this handy pocket guide, well-known architecture writer John Walsh teams up with architectural photographer Patrick Reynolds to offer a self-guided walking tour of 50 significant Auckland buildings, from the Victorian era to the brand new. The sparkling and informative text is accompanied by maps for ...Show more
Bloody Marvellous: George Haydn 1915 - 2005 by Dinah Holman; Christine Cole Catley (eds)
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
George Haydn so loved life, and lived it with such gusto, that his trademark response was either "Marvellous" or "Bloody marvellous". Sent away by his large and loving family in Hungary to escape Hitler, he arrived in New Zealand in 1939, alone except for one cousin. Together with business partner Georg ...Show more
At Home - A Century of New Zealand Design by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Taking the first decade of the twentieth century as its starting point, At Home joins the story of the New Zealand house just at the point when its inhabitants begin to ask whether a distinctive, uniquely New Zealand house might be possible. It then charts the way in which imported movements, fashions a ...Show more
Thinking it Through by Tony Watkins
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Thinking it through was originally published in Home and Building from 1988 to 1996 when Kirsty Robertson, then editor for “Home and Building” invited Tony Watkins, who had for many years been a contributor to the magazine, to begin a new column called simply, “Thinking it through”. She also invited Har ...Show more
Britomart - The Story by Carol Du Chateau
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Carroll du Chateau describes how the opportunity to restore the site and the heritage buildings was nearly lost late last century, as major demolition plans had already been put in place. Fortunately for Auckland, that never happened and instead Cooper and Company were selected to join with Auckland Cou ...Show more
The Life and Times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor by Judy Siers
$210.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of James Walter Chapman-Taylor - architect, craftsman, furniture designer, builder, photographer, astrologer and family man. The biography unfolds chronologically from Chapman-Taylor's birth in London to his childhood in Taranaki, New Zealand, and traces his career from his early years ...Show more