Of course, legibility was also important to the New Brutalists in Britain, and you can see their influence in the work of Sir Miles Warren in Christchurch in the 1960s. Miles made a great play of how he put his buildings together, articulating every joint, which is a fabricator’s way of looking at architecture.
In the 1960s New Zealand architects started to join houses together again. That didn’t really happen until after Sir Miles Warren designed the Dorset Street Flats in Christchurch [1957].
“The Pacific Gene”, David Mitchell in conversation with John Walsh, Last Loneliest Loveliest: The New Zealand Pavilion, 14th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, John Walsh (ed), NZIA, 2014, p.47, pp.54-55.
In the 1960s New Zealand architects started to join houses together again. That didn’t really happen until after Sir Miles Warren designed the Dorset Street Flats in Christchurch [1957].
“The Pacific Gene”, David Mitchell in conversation with John Walsh, Last Loneliest Loveliest: The New Zealand Pavilion, 14th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, John Walsh (ed), NZIA, 2014, p.47, pp.54-55.
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