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Architectural style spreads its wings: New Zealand Architecture in the 1880s

Author(s) -

Christine McCarthy

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

architectural history aotearoa

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."

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