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Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold photography book reveals how the Christchurch Style movement produced an array of distinctive modernist houses in the New Zealand city in the 1960s. JH Elworthy House is an example of a Christchurch Style home Adapted from a Danish housing model, these properties explored building materials and techniques that were highly radical in their context. There s a running joke that someone in 1950s Christchurch owned a book of contemporary Danish homes, and that denied all contact with the wider world, local architects set about endlessly recreating them with the limited materials they had to hand, Arnold told Dezeen. ....