ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 19??
Oblast: Arhitektura
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

DOUGLASS BAGLIN
PTER MOFFITT

THE AUSTRALIAN VERANDAH

Izdavač - Summit Books, Sydney

Godina - 19??

130 strana

28x21 cm

Povez - Broširan

Stanje - Kao na slici, nedostaje naslovna stranica, ima exlibris prethodnog vlasnika, tekst podvlačen grafitnom olovkom na nekoliko stranica



`The verandah, in all its varied forms, is almost certainly the most distinctively Australian feature of our architecture. In this continent of harsh extremes of climate, it is an exceptionally practical device, sheltering people from sun and rain, shielding the walls of buildings from the heat of the sun and contributing much to their coolness in hot weather.

The earliest recorded verandahs, and in fact the word verandah itself, existed in Spain and northern Portugal in the sixteenth century; from there it was `exported` to the far-flung reaches of the Portu- guese and Spanish colonial empires in the West Indies, South America, and coastal India. British colonists adopted the style in North America and India, and Dutch colonists took it to South Africa and the East Indies. With the founding of a penal settlement at Sydney Cove in 1788, it is not surprising that, before the end of that year, the first building with a verandah had been completed in Australia.

The earliest Australian buildings derived from the Georgian style familiar to the British colonists; the addition of a verandah to the simple Georgian box proved a most successful style in Australia for more than sixty years.

From about 1850, when the Industrial Revolution had made iron a cheap and readily available building material, the influence of Victorian style brought the addition of intricately patterned cast iron balustrades, frieze panels and supporting columns to the verandah. At the same time, corrugated iron made its appearance as a roofing material in vernacular buildings. This period, up to 1890, was one of great economic prosperity from gold mining, and it saw a tremendous building boom all over the country. The street verandahs of country towns which so delight visitors to Australia but have been sadly decimated in the name of `progress` date from this time.

The boom burst in 1893, and very little building took place until the turn of the century. By then the style had changed: the Federation style was far more restrained, with decorative patterns cut in timber replacing the more ornate Victorian cast iron lace.

The period between the Wars brought the `bungalow` style to Australia, and the verandah shrank to a meagre porch. It is only in the last ten to fifteen years that Australians have again begun to recognize the tremendous advantages of the verandah in our climate and life style.

Douglass Baglin`s superb photographs capture the essential uniqueness of the verandah in Australia. From the restrained elegance of a Colonial Georgian mansion to the extremely functional street verandahs of a country town or the rough simplicity of a prospector`s hut-simple or ornate, modest or imposing, utilitarian or decorative, it is always an honest expression of the land, its climate and its people.`



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