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Ian Lochhead examines the links and parallels with British and American architecture, independent development of the timber bungalow, use of indigenous flora and fauna motifs and attitudes towards the art traditions of the Maori.
Lochhead is an associate professor of art history at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch and an expert on the history of New Zealand architecture with an emphasis on gothic revival and the arts and crafts movement. He authored “A Dream of Spires
Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival” in 1999.
Lochhead discusses how, at the beginning of the 20th century, progressive New Zealand architects sought ways to express an emerging sense of national identity; as they attempted to break free from the twin shackles of a dominant English tradition and 19th century historicism, they discovered in the ideals of the arts and crafts movement a means of expressing both national and regional identities. He describes how New Zealand architects such as Samuel Hurst Seager, Basil Hooper and James Chapman Taylor developed a regionally distinctive arts and crafts architecture but yet remain relatively obscure outside of New Zealand.
A reception at The Gamble House follows the lecture.
The Gamble House, a National Historic Landmark owned by the City of Pasadena and operated by USC, is open for public tours.
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