Win a copy of Vertical Living The University of Auckland

This month we are giving away a copy of Vertical Living: The Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington, by Julia Gatley and Paul Walker. To enter the draw, please email your name and address to Alumni Relations Manager Mandy Allan at m.allan@auckland.ac.nz. The winner will be notified on 1 August 2014.
In 1946 a group of students and idealists got together to realise their visions for a modern city. Over the following half century, the Architectural Centre they founded helped to shape the possibilities of modern life in urban New Zealand and profoundly influenced the remaking of Wellington.
More than an association of architects, the Centre wrote manifestos, furthered education, published Design Review magazine, hosted modernist exhibitions in its gallery, staged an audacious campaign for political influence called “The Project”, and fought for better planning and design and better built environments in Wellington. Its members also constructed a demonstration house, but "planning" was the battle-cry.
Vertical Living charts these activists and their projects, as well as offering a history of urban Wellington from the 1940s to the 1990s and beyond. The book reminds us that, in modernist ideology, architecture and urban planning went hand-in-hand with visual and craft arts, and with graphic and industrial design. In recovering the multi-disciplinary history, politics and planning of the Architectural Centre, Gatley and Walker begin writing the city back into the history of architecture in this country.
Authors
Julia Gatley is a senior lecturer in the University of Auckland's School of Architecture and Planning. She is the author of Athfield Architects (2012) and editor of Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture (2010) and Long Live the Modern: New Zealand’s New Architecture, 1904–1984 (2008).
Paul Walker is a professor of architecture at the University of Melbourne. He is co-author, with Justine Clark, of Looking for the Local: Architecture and the New Zealand Modern (2000). Recent publications include chapters in The Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory (2012); Neo-Avant-garde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond (2010); and Colonial Modernities (2007).
Vertical Living: The Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington includes contributions from curator and art historian Damian Skinner and from Justine Clark, an independent architectural editor, writer and critic.