John Andrews

Architect of Uncommon Sense

Paul Walker, Noritaka Minami, Mary Lou Lobsinger , Peter Scriver

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Harvard University Press
07 November 2023

Architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms

Though he garnered global praise at the peak of his career from 1960 to 1990, Australian architect John Andrews faced waning fame as postmodern cultural transformations challenged modernist design values, and wider social and economic changes led to a withdrawal of government-funded institutional commissions. Yet his body of work is a remarkable achievement that deserves to be better known.

Following a path from Australia to the United States and Canada and back again, John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense examines his most important buildings and reveals how the internationalization of architecture during this period was an unexpectedly dispersed geographical phenomenon, following more complex flows and localized progressions than earlier modernist ideas that travelled from center to periphery, metropole to outpost. Andrews negotiated the advent of postmodernism not by ignoring it, but by cultivating approaches that this new era foregrounded-identity, history, place-within the formal vocabularies of modernism. As Andrews assumed wider public roles and took appointments that allowed him to shape architectural education, he influenced design culture beyond his own personal portfolio. This book presents his legacy traversing local and international scenes and exemplifying late-modern developments of architecture while offering both generational continuities and discontinuities with what came after.

John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense features essays from Paul Walker, Mary Lou Lobsinger, Peter Scriver and Antony Moulis, Philip Goad, and Paolo Scrivano, along with nearly 100 new photographs from visual artist Noritaka Minami of existing buildings designed by Andrews in North America and Australia.

By: Paul Walker
Photographs by: Noritaka Minami
Contributions by: Mary Lou Lobsinger, Peter Scriver, Antony Moulis
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 171mm,
ISBN: 9780674278561
ISBN 10: 0674278569
Pages: 508
Publication Date: 07 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Walker teaches architectural history and design at the University of Melbourne.