Architectural Image and Idiom: Making Local

Using photographic images from South East Queensland mid-twentieth-century architecture, this essay investigates the translation and regeneration of modern themes into a local idiom that resonates with poetic qualities of pre-existent forms of inhabitation. It contributes to the discussion of the ph...

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Published in:Mosaic (Winnipeg) 2004-12, Vol.37 (4), p.255-273
Main Authors: MUSGRAVE, ELIZABETH, NEALE, DOUGLAS
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Architectural control
Architectural photography
Architecture
Associative processes
Barthes, Roland
Boyd, Robin
Buildings
Collective memory
Cultural factors
Dalton, John
Houses
Humid zones
Idioms
Malouf, David
Memory
Modernist art
Photography
Poetry
Time
Translation
Verandas
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Summary:Using photographic images from South East Queensland mid-twentieth-century architecture, this essay investigates the translation and regeneration of modern themes into a local idiom that resonates with poetic qualities of pre-existent forms of inhabitation. It contributes to the discussion of the photograph's role in communicating meaning in architecture through its potential to "reveal" the idiomatic.
ISSN:0027-1276
1925-5683