Northbourne Avenue flats, Canberra, 1965 [picture] / Australian News and Information Bureau
- Bib ID:
- 3643918
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Australian News and Information Bureau
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1963
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.6 x 21.9 cm.
- Biography/History:
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Sydney Ancher (1904-1980) was a pioneer of the modern movement in Australia. His houses were described by Robin Boyd as being in the best Australian tradition of horizontally bleached colours and decorative shadows ... a line of development, unaffected, uncomplicated and an undeviating search for simplicity. Ancher's houses and buildings were designed to adapt to the conditions of their Australian bushland sites. He made extensive use of open planning, pergolas and wide terraces, opening the interior of his white painted houses to the landscape. After graduating from Sydney Technical College in 1930 Ancher won the Board of Architects of New South Wales Travelling Scholarship. He then worked in London and travelled throughout Europe, where he was exposed to the architecture and ideas of Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and other Bauhaus architects prior to the Second World War. Ancher had not been exposed to modernist ideas in his formal education and his travels in Europe had a great influence on his architecture. Reference: http://www.canberrahouse.com.au/biographies/sydneyancher.html
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on information on verso and from compactus card.
- "The maturing trees and shrubs near the two and three storey flats in Northbourne Avenue"--Inscriptions on verso.
- "NDC 685/5 May, 1965."--Inscriptions on verso.
- These flats were designed by Sydney Ancher.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-137155147
- Subject:
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- Ancher, Sydney, 1904-1980
- Dwellings -- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra -- Photographs
- Apartments -- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra -- Photographs
- Architecture -- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra -- Photographs
- Canberra (A.C.T.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs
- Canberra (A.C.T) -- Photographs
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2035 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1965
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