New dreamland : writing New Zealand architecture / [edited by] Douglas Lloyd Jenkins.

Introduction : Writing New Zealand architecture / Douglas Lloyd Jenkins -- Architectural art in New Zealand (1900) / Samuel Hurst Seager -- How houses may be improved : A plea for art in house design (1912) / Gerald E. Jones -- Domestic architecture in New Zealand (1916) . Frederick de Jersey Clere -- The garden forecourt/Maori art motifs (1928) / Jocelyn Brown -- Some thoughts on the building of houses (1929) / James Walter Chapman-Taylor -- Evolution or revolution : What New Zealand architects are doing with modernism (1936) / Anonymous -- The stranger within your gate/The housing of books (1937) / Alison Pickmere -- Problems of working-class housing (1936) / Cedric Firth -- Workers' housing : A scheme for New Zealand (1937) / W. Robin Simpson -- About houses (1943) / Ernst Anton Plischke -- The modern house (1947) / Paul Pascoe and Humphrey Hall -- The constitution of the Architectural Group/On the necessity for architecture : The manifesto of the Architectural Group (1946/1948) / The Architectural Group -- The small house (1948) / Bill Wilson -- Another student house (1950) / A.R.D. Fairburn -- Architecture in the next fifty years (1956) / William Toomath -- South Island architecture (1967) / Peter Beaven -- A sense of community (1972) / Sue McCauley -- Of woolsheds, houses and people : A conversation with John Scott and Ming Ching-Fan (1973) / Ray Grover -- Auckland : Water city of the South Pacific (1976) / Richard H. Toy -- A description og the Maori marae (1976) / Michael Austin -- A survival kit for small offices; or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the institute / Chris Brooke-White -- Style in New Zealand architecture / Miles Warren -- The Slob City impulse (1979) / David Mitchell -- The mid-city crisis (1985) / Gerald Melling -- Paradise lost and found : The insinuation of architecture in New Zealand (1986) / Mark Wigley -- From the margins of architecture : An account of domesticity (1989-92) / Sarah Treadwell -- A house in the West / Bill McKay -- Projects of our times (1995) / Patrick Clifford and Giles Reid.

Collection of essays all previously published.

"A Goodwit book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.