Claude Megson

Claude Megson
Title Claude Megson PDF eBook
Author Giles Reid
Publisher
Pages 23
Release 2016
Genre Architects
ISBN 9781526205995

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Toughen Up

Toughen Up
Title Toughen Up PDF eBook
Author Michael Hill
Publisher Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Pages 204
Release 2010-05-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1869793803

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Lessons from New Zealand's top entrepreneur on surviving tough times. Michael Hill believes it's possible to succeed in a downturn - in fact, it is the perfect situation in which to perfect a business. International jewellery store-chain owner Michael Hill believes the struggling economy can be a good thing for businesses and entrepreneurs. Instead of fearing the side-effects of recession, wallowing in gloom and convincing ourselves the only safe haven is at home under the blankets, entrepreneurs can use this period to their advantage. With the right attitude, you can not only survive, but also emerge from the crunch with a new feeling of prosperity and strength. Over the years, Michael Hill has had just about every possible experience in business: from lie-awake-at-night nerves to the joy of unexpected success. He's reshaped the landscape under his feet and he has ventured into new territory. And at every moment, he has relished the excitement of it all. Once, he was an outsider in his industry; the cheeky startup whom nobody expected to succeed. The established players had no reason to view him as a threat. Now, his business is the establishment. It dominates the markets in which it operates. Michael Hill Jeweller is a respected part of the business culture in a large part of the world - and they are continuing to expand in both size and ambition. This book encapsulates the ingredients of Michael's philosophy. There are no secret herbs and spices. It is not a magic recipe - it is just a collection of solid ideas, firmly grounded in reality. All these concepts are remarkable only because they make common-sense - but you'd be amazed how rarely they are fully understood and embraced in the business world.

Vertical Living

Vertical Living
Title Vertical Living PDF eBook
Author Julia Gatley
Publisher Auckland University Press
Pages 232
Release 2014-09-01
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1775587207

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In 1946 a group of students and idealists got together to realize their visions for a modern city. Over the following half century, the Architectural Centre they founded helped shape the possibilities of modern life in urban New Zealand and profoundly influenced the remaking of the capital city of Wellington. More than just an association of architects, the Centre furthered education, published a magazine—Design Review—hosted modernist exhibitions in its gallery, staged an audacious campaign for political influence called &“the Project,&” and fought for better planning, better design, and better built environments in Wellington. Charting these activists and their projects over the years, Julia Gatley and Paul Walker also offer a history of urban Wellington from the 1940s to the 1990s and beyond. The book reminds us that, in modernist ideology, architecture and urban planning went hand-in-hand with visual and craft arts, graphic and industrial design. In recovering the multidisciplinary history, politics, and planning of the Architectural Centre, Gatley and Walker begin writing the city back into the history of architecture in New Zealand.

Long Live the Modern

Long Live the Modern
Title Long Live the Modern PDF eBook
Author Julia Gatley
Publisher
Pages 264
Release 2008
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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Long Live the Modern celebrates New Zealands heritage of modern architecture. It is not a history of modern architecture in that country. Rather, it identifies 180 key modern buildings that survive and maintain their original design integrity.

The Drama of Space

The Drama of Space
Title The Drama of Space PDF eBook
Author Holger Kleine
Publisher Birkhäuser
Pages 296
Release 2017-10-23
Genre Architecture
ISBN 3035604355

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The experience of architectural spaces is formed by the way they are staged. The Drama of Space examines the composition and articulation of architectural spaces in terms of spatial dramaturgy, as a repertoire of means and strategies for shaping spatial experience. This fundamental approach to architectural design is presented in four parts: Archetypal principles of spatial composition are traced from the study of three assembly buildings of the early modern period in Venice. Theatre, film, music, and theory provide background knowledge on dramaturgy. Detailed analyses of 18 international case studies offer new perspectives on contemporary architecture. The book ends with a systematic presentation of the dramaturgy of space, its parameters and tools, in architectural design.

New Zealand Art

New Zealand Art
Title New Zealand Art PDF eBook
Author John Stacpoole
Publisher Wellington : A. H. & A. W. Reed
Pages 116
Release 1972
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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"This survey of New Zealand architecture -- the first to be separately published -- begins with precolonial buildings in the Far North and ends not far short of the present day. For easier consideration of the different influences at work, the period has been broken into three parts 1820-80, 1880-1920, 1920-1970. Within this framework the authors have chosen to illustrate buildings which best represent their time or which epitomise some important development. No building has been ruled out because of familiarity but, equally, text and photographs have sometimes been allowed to take unexpected directions. The aim of the authors has been to lay out the pattern of architectural design over 150 years and to encourage the general reader, and those newly interested in architecture, to look hard at buildings which have had only casual attention before. Selection, particularly of the work of living architects, has often been difficult, and some fine buildings have been excluded. Some have simply been casualties of the necessary limitation of numbers." -- Inside front cover.

The Elegant Shed

The Elegant Shed
Title The Elegant Shed PDF eBook
Author David Mitchell
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 116
Release 1984
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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