Graham Jahn

photographs by Patrick Bingham-Hall

Now reprinted, the first in the architectural guide series is a highly informative and interesting commentary on the built environment of Australia’s largest city. An ideal guide for tourists and Sydneysiders alike, it has also proved to be a vital tool for students of architecture and design. More than 250 buildings are placed in historical context from the colonial era through to contemporary architecture. There are biograhies of the major architects as well as suggested tours with maps of seven distinctive areas of Sydney.

ISBN 0 949284 32 7

256 pp Softcover
255mm x 134mm

Two-colour throughout

$36.00

Philip Goad

photographs by Patrick Bingham-Hall

The third in the series gives great insight into the gracious city of Melbourne and this book examines the greater issues of preservation versus development and urban planning while charting the features that create a city’s spatial character. This guide was awarded the Bates Smart Award for excellence for published works which promote architecture.

ISBN 0 949284 36 X

288 pp Softcover
255mm x 134mm
Two-colour throughout

$36.00

Fiona Gardiner, Alice Hampson, Don Watson

photographs by Richard Stringer

To be published in March/April 2002 this guide also includes the new tropical architecture of the Sunshine and Gold coasts. The first of the architectural guides in the new format with colour throughout, it provides a highly informative and interesting commentary on the Brisbane area by three knowledgeable local architects. An ideal guide for anyone wanting to learn more about the unique architecture of Queensland. More than 300 buildings are placed in historical context with biograhies of the major architects as well as suggested tours with maps.

ISBN 0 949284 32 7

256 pp Softcover
255mm x 134mm
Two-colour throughout

$36.00

Andrew Metcalf

To be published in July 2002. The Sydney Opera House has a visionary design which has helped make it become an international cultural landmark. The organic shape and complete lack of surface decoration made it instantly both dateless and ageless. This guide covers the background history, political intrigue and final development one of the most famous buildings of the world with many photographs, plans, sections and drawings.

ISBN 0 949284 60 2

128 pp Softcover
255mm x 134mm
Four-colour throughout

$29.95

Geeta Mehta, Kim Carew-Reid and others

To be published in September 2002 this guide covers one of the most architecturally interesting cities of the world. With the financial ascendancy of Japan in the 80s huge changes came about during the so-called ‘Bubble Economy’. This put an entirely new face on Tokyo with many designs by internationally renowned architects and designers such as Philippe Starck, Gae Aulenti, and Frank Gehry amongst others. Also includes are some of the new satellite cities in the greater Tokyo area. This carefully constructed guide divides Tokyo into 15 carefully defined areas with suggested walking tours, maps and instructions on how to get there.

ISBN 0 949284 58 0

256 pp Softcover
255mm x 134mm
Four-colour throughout

$39.60

Zeny Edwards

Author/historian Zeny Edwards had, for many years, been intrigued by William Hardy Wilson (1881–1955), a significant but enigmatic figure in Australian art. As curator of Eryldene, the National Trust property on Sydney’s North Shore, she had experienced, first hand, the magic of his architecture.

Now with access to his manuscripts, letters, photographs, sketches and prints, many hitherto unpublished, she has produced the definitive biography of this extraordinary man. Additional essays have been contributed by experts in the fields of oriental art architecture and gardens.

ISBN 0 949284 55 6

260 pp Hardback
275mm x 210mm
Four-colour throughout

$77.00 also Limited edition of 100 copies $250.00

Sydney

Andrew Metcalf

Rarely, does a new development act as a fitting counterpoint to a city’s natural features. However, with the Aurora Place/Macquarie Apartments complex the critically acclaimed architect, Renzo Piano, has made a major addition to the Sydney city skyline. This is the first high-rise building designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and within its curved and slender profile are numerous innovative design concepts including elevated plazas where people can meet outdoors without exiting the building. Aurora Place and Macquarie Apartments exhibit refinements of many of the themes for which RPBW is famous. This is one of the most detailed books about a single development and with its many colour photographs, drawings and sections, it will be a valuable addition to the records of modern architecture.

ISBN 0 949284 53 X

128pp Hardback
290mm x 255mm
Four-colour throughout

$99.00

Patrick Bingham-Hall

A visual history of the best Australian architecture from settlement to the present day with incisive text, useful bibliography and full index. Over 200 beautifully reproduced photographs of Australia’s best buildings from colonial architects Greenway, Verge and Blackett, to modern leaders such as DCM, Durbach and Stutchbury.

ISBN 0 949284 42 4

256 pp Softcover
245mm x 245mm
Printed 3 and 4 colour
240 photographs plus location map

$60.00

Patrick Bingham-Hall

The 2000 Olympics in Sydney has seen the largest number of purpose-built stadia ever produced for an Olympic Games. Moreover, 90 per cent of these buildings are contained in one area, at the geographic centre of the Sydney metropolis.

The overall cost runs into billions of dollars. Every step of the construction of these buildings has been recorded brilliantly in Olympic Architecture, from the original briefing of the architects through all phases of design and construction up to the final hand-over.

ISBN 0 949284 39 4

280 pp Hardback
310mm x 240mm
Five colour throughout

$93.50