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New Zealand at Home - Modernism Triumphant (Episode Six)

2006 22m Television
  • Documentary
  • Lifestyle
  • NZ History

Design historian Douglas Lloyd Jenkins (The Big Art Trip) hosts this series celebrating 100 years of New Zealand home architecture. This episode looks at the post-war modernist style, which took hold in the 1950s and 60s. Examples include Christchurch’s Dorset Street Flats (designed by a young Miles Warren) and Wellington’s narrow Jellicoe Towers. Residents offer their take on living in these unique homes. Lloyd Jenkins also takes a look at the unique schools of architecture that took hold in cities — the "encompassing" Christchurch and "sheltered" Auckland styles.