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By 1918, at the end of WWI, it could be said that Australia had already sampled a version of what modernism might mean. 1911 saw the awarding of the design of the nation's new capital, Canberra, to Chicago-based architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony. It was to be the 20th century's first modern capital city, a democratic vision of the garden city. That same year also saw the completion of what was for a short time, the world's largest reinforced concreite dome at the Melbourne Public Library, a technological feat that continued the competing embrace of American and British construction and service technologies that had been adopted in Australian cities like Syd1ney, Adelaide and Brisbane since the 1870s. 3 Such developments had grown from a notion of progress associated with the country's evolution, from an emerging series of British colonies since 1788, to the birth of Australia as a nation of federated states in 1901.
By 1918, at the end of WWI, it could be said that Australia had already sampled a version of what modernism might mean. 1911 saw the awarding of the design of the nation's new capital, Canberra, to Chicago-based architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony. It was to be the 20th century's first modern capital city, a democratic vision of the garden city. That same year also saw the completion of what was for a short time, the world's largest reinforced concreite dome at the Melbourne Public Library, a technological feat that continued the competing embrace of American and British construction and service technologies that had been adopted in Australian cities like Syd1ney, Adelaide and Brisbane since the 1870s. 3 Such developments had grown from a notion of progress associated with the country's evolution, from an emerging series of British colonies since 1788, to the birth of Australia as a nation of federated states in 1901.
Modernism and Australian architecture
Philip Goad (author)
2022
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