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| | Book |  | | | Author: | Chipkin, Clive M | | Year: | 1993 | | Title: | Johannesburg Style - Architecture & Society 1880s - 1960s | | Place: | Cape Town | | Publisher: | David Phillip |
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." | | | Link to WorldCat - find this book in a library near you |
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Buildings linked to this bookAiton Court, 1937 : 2012-2014, Hillbrow, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 169, 170, 171, 172, 226   | | Alexander Theater, 1951, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 310 | | Anglo American Building, 1937, Central, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 127-129 | | Anglo American Corporation Head Offices, 1947, Central, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 129, 250 | | Anstey's Building - Third, 1935, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 79, 88, 146, 147, 148-9 | | Arop House, 1932 : 1935-1936, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 76 | | Astor Mansions, 1931, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 62 ill, 84, 85-86, 86 ill, 92 ill, 93 ill, 96, 115 | | Barbican Building, 1929, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 84 ill, 85 | | Broadcast House, 1935, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 99, 100 ill, 101 | | Carlton Centre, 1967-1974, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 318 | | Carlton Hotel - First, 1906 : 1935 : 1960s, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 43, 44, 45 ill, 46, 104, 151 314 | | Chamber of Mines Building - First, 1894-1895, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 16-17 ill, 19 ill | | Chamber of Mines Building - Third, 1950-1954, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 130 ill | | Chrysler House - Atkinson House, 1938, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 84, 146, 150-151 ill | | Colosseum Theatre, 1931, Central, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 100 | | Constantia Court, 1935, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 150 | | Courtyards, The, 1965, Craighall Park, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 243 | | Cullinan Building, 1906, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 42 ill, 48-49, 48 ill | | Daventry Court, 1933-1934, Killarney, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 111 ill | | Davidson's Mansions, 1923-1925, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 79, 80 ill | | Dunkeld Mansions, 1939, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 174, 177 ill | | Dunvegan Chambers, 1933, Central, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 110-111, 115 ill | | Egon Guenther Gallery, 1965, Linksfield Ridge, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 298, 299 ill | | Elephant Trading Building, 1919-1923, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 72 ill | | Elgin Mansions, c1935, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 178 | | Empire Theatre, 1936, Central, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 99, 104 | | Escom Centre, 1956-1958, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 259-260, 259 ill, 260 ill, 263 ill, 283 | | Escom House (Van Eck Building), 1937, Central, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 148 | | Exploration Building, 1897, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 15 ill, 18, 46, 151, 175, 176 ill | | Friedenskirche (German Lutheran Church), 1912, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 50 | | Gallery van Blerk, 1967, Emmarentia, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 299 | | Gallo Building, 1920s : 1936 : 1949, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 235 | | General Post Office, 1897 : 1905, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 20, 21 ill, 84 ill, 85, 138 | | Great Synagogue, 1912-1914, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 50 ill | | Harvard Buildings, 1928, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 74, 74 ill | | Hollandia House, 1939, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 112 | | House Archdeacon and Mrs Furse: Bishopskop, 1904, Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 54 | | House Boterman, 1960s, Buccleuch, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 298 | | House Grinker, 1939, Parkwood, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 119 ill | | House Hanson, 1938, Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 164 | | House L Phillips - Hohenheim, 1892-1894, Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 9, 34 ill | | House Schwartz, 1960, Parktown West, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 303-304 | | House Turgel, 'Marakesh', 1960, Lyndhurst, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 298 | | Innes Chambers, 1959, Central, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 239 | | Johannesburg Civic Art Gallery, 1910 : 1987, Joubert Park, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 49 | | Lhenveolan, pre-1944, Killarney, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 169, 174, 177 | | Lusam Mansions, 1935, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 141 | | Main Post Office - Jeppe Street, 1933-1935, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 138-139 ill | | Manners Mansions, 1939, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 149 | | Market Theater, 1976, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 310 | | Markham's Building, 1896, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 46 ill, 111 | | Medical Centre, 1946, Central, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 246 | | Normandie Court, 1937, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 114, 118, 118 ill, 178 | | Northwards, 1904 : 1912, Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 31 ill, 54 | | Palace Building, 1889, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 15 ill, 84 ill, 85 | | Park Station : Second Main Station, 1932, Central, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 253-258 | | Penmore Towers, 1974, Central, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 315 | | Provincial Building Society, 1960, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 240 ill | | Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital, 1943, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 145, 145 ill | | Radoma Court, 1937, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 154, 169, 172-174, 173, 174, 175, 226 | | Rand Club - Third, 1902-1904 : 1935, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 41 ill, 42, 151 | | Reading Court, 1936, Berea, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 169 | | Schlesinger Organisation Building, 1967, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 213-214 (+ill>_, 215 (ill.) | | Southern Life Building, 1938-1939, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 150 | | St Anthony's Catholic Church, 1980, Coronationville, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 298 | | Stanhope Mansions, 1935, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 114 ill, 115 | | Three Castles Cigarette Co, 1898, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 24 ill | | Transvaalsche Bank en Handelsvereeniging (later Security House), 1906, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 50, 258, 321 | | University of the Witwatersrand, Central Block - Robert Sobukwe Block, 1920, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 78, 79, 189, 271 | | University of the Witwatersrand, Main Block - Great Hall, 1920-1925 : 1937-1940, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 78, 78 ill | | Volkskas, Market Square, 1946, Central, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 280-281 | | Washington House, 1937, Johannesburg, Gauteng. pp 175, 176 ill |
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