The Early Australian Architects and Their Work by Morton Herman

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Sunning to foredges. Dust jacket has tearing at spine and book corners. Dust jacket is enclosed in protective covering. Interior and binding are still very good.

Between 1788 and 1845, Australia developed from a small settlement whose only inhabitants were a few wattle-and-daub huts to a country set on the road to nationhood and richly endowed with buildings, many of them of great beauty, all of the interesting.

In this book the early Australian architects, their triumphs and setbacks, characters and idiosyncrasies are sympathetically and skilfully reviewed. Morton Herman describes the methods of design and execution not only of the dominant figures - Francis Greenway, David Lennox and John Verge but also lesser known architects of well-known buildings.

Includes 127 drawings, many in colour.