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Publication date: 07/18/2023. Though he garnered global praise at the peak of his career from 1960 to 1990, Australian architect John Andrews faced waning fame as postmodern cultural transformations challenged modernist design values, and wider social and economic changes led to a withdrawal of government-funded institutional commissions.
Dec 20, 2022 · John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense (Justin Knight/Courtesy Harvard GSD) Curated by Paul Walker and Kevin Liu. Druker Design Gallery. 48 Quincy Street. Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138....
Dec 11, 2023 · Too many books on the work of architects are hagiographies. In contrast, John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense (Harvard University Press, 2023) offers a thorough, thoughtful account of Andrews’s work in the United States, Canada and Australia.
Apr 6, 2022 · John Andrews was the first Australian to shoot to architectural prominence internationally. He consistently won design competitions for prestigious commissions against stiff competition.
Feb 12, 2013 · Architecture advocate Philip Drew recalls John Andrews, a hero of Australian architecture, and makes a plea to save one of Andrews’ important remaining public buildings, the Sydney Convention Centre.
Gold Medal winning architect John Andrews who passed away last week at the age of 88. He was “a giant of the Australian architecture fraternity and one of our first internationally recognised architects,” Australian Institute of Architects national president Tony Giannone said in a media release on Monday.
Following a path from Australia to the United States and Canada and back again, John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense examines his most important buildings and reveals how the internationalization of architecture during this period was an unexpectedly dispersed geographical phenomenon, following more complex flows and localized progressions ...
