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Increased environmental awareness in the 1960s drove designs using alternative technology. A revival of vernacular forms, exploratory domes and autonomous houses were intended to address issues of ecology and energy. Mainstream housing was untroubled by a few remote hippy houses on the fringe, no matter how audacious.
The word sustainability, at least as applied to design, traces back to the 1970s, but the origins of the idea go back to interests in passive solar and better urban design after WW2 (Homes in the Sun, Walter Bunning, 1945). The 1960s then saw two emerging and intersecting trends.
The National Library incorporates major works of art that have become closely associated with the building. As the concept for the Library’s building developed, the chief architect, Walter Bunning (1912-1977), made the suggestions for initial artworks, believing they should reflect the classical style of the architecture. Most of these works of art were commissioned by Bunning around the time the Library was opened in 1968, and can still be found in the foyer, exterior and grounds of the building.
International House sits on City Road across from Victoria Park, between the Wilkinson Building and the Seymour Centre. Since opening seven odd decades ago…
Jackson finds that Freeland’s history holds up in the hindsight of more rigorous research, although she claims it mentions too few architects, which Jackson sets to ‘writes’ by name checking every architect with a significant building in Australia in the last 230 years.