MODERN
STYLE - ARCHITECTURE
1950s
architecture that had the following typical features:
- corner windows
- vigorous use of
colour
- texture
finishes on inside walls
- cement tiles of
various colours
- floorboards
exposed and waxed with a light colour
- exposed timbers
stained with a light colour.
Includes
the waterfall style which has rounded corners and the P
&
O style with portholes. There are some good examples of the
modern style in Canberra.
The
actual start of the Modern movement was in the 1930s and was a
reaction against the containment of Australian houses. A movement to
break out and get sunlight into the house. For this reason it was
styled on a glass box. The movement really found its feet during the
1950s, after WWII, with the new post war prosperity.
A
well known architect of the style is Harry Seidler and a number of
holiday houses along the east coast were copied from his famous house
for his mother. They were cheaply built in asbestos cement and have a
flat roof. The Modern movement is basically still with us and often
called “contemporary”.\
EXAMPLES
OF 50's MODERN HOUSES
