Open AccessArchitectural style spreads its wings: New Zealand Architecture in the 1880s
Author(s) -
Christine McCarthy
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
aha
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2703-6626
DOI - 10.26686/aha.v10i.7306
Subject(s) - mainstream , period (music) , architecture , style (visual arts) , history of architecture , depression (economics) , unemployment , crash , great depression , history , engineering , political science , economics , keynesian economics , economic growth , aesthetics , art , law , archaeology , computer science , programming language
The 1880s was a period in New Zealand of economic depression. It caused "unemployment, family distress, ragged children and exploited women workers, general business collapse, a crash in the property market, a ten-year banking crisis, bankruptcies and unstable ministries." But despite this Hodgson identifies this period in New Zealand's architectural history as one when: "Architectural style ... started to spread its wings and this period contains some fine examples of building design which was definitely out of the mainstream."