Recording some 200 of the most significant structures and places, this volume presents Australian architecture produced during the unprecedented building boom of the mid- to late-1990s. These projects range from the breezy east-coast houses of Clare Design and Peter Stutchbury and the stadia built for the Sydney Olympics, to Melbourne's wave of daring monuments by Denton Corker Marshall, Peter Corrigan, Ashton Raggatt McDougall and Wood Marsh. Davina Jackson and Chris Johnson survey the contemporary scene in two central essays, with 33 concise chapters that explore prevailing styles and building types. The third section presents 22 extremely detailed case studies that examine the most remarkable public buildings and houses from a wide range of geographical areas.
Davina Jackson is a Sydney-based writer and promoter of progressive architecture and design. Trained as a newspaper reporter in the mid 1970s, she spent the 1980s as a writer and photographic stylist on glossy home design magazines including Belle and Vogue Living, then edited Architecture Australia 1992-2000, witnessing and influencing the Sydney Olympics property development boom.
Her hardcover books include Australian Architecture Now (Thames & Hudson, 2000), and various editions of Next Wave: Emerging Talents in Australian Architecture (Thames and Hudson, 2005). She also has edited and privately published various softcover exhibition catalogues and an anthology of articles about Australian architecture, titled Pink Fits: Australian perspectives on architecture 1993-2006.
She is next publishing her Masters (theory) and PhD (history) theses, and a range of new books, magazines and articles on how aerospatial technologies are being applied to cities, outdoor light art and architecture.
More information at davinajackson.com
