Royal treatment
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Citation
Hinge, v.78, 2001, pp. 28-30
Abstract
The future unfurls, or so we sometimes say, like a carpet before our feet. I imagine that anyone contemplating design in the next century will have an image of furled surfaces at the back of their mind. There is an avant garde, set in train by John Frazer 30 years ago, preoccupied with setting computers to calculate and record surfaces that artists like Gabo were hand-making 30 years before Frazer's little round green screen revealed that first shell-like image, twisting - as they all still do - like a space ship in outer space. So if, as Ginsberg the historian of planning insists, ideas are implemented two 15-year generations after they are articulated, why am I addressing the future through the adaptive re-use of a 1930s deco hotel in St Kilda?
Description
Building Name: The Prince of Wales
Building Type(s): Hotels
Architect: Powell, Alan
Subject
Type
Article
Format
Date
2001
Language
en