watermark press

Ken Woolley

Probably the most important book ever written about the Sydney Opera House, Reviewing the Performance is the first to make a calm and careful analysis of all aspects of this remarkable building. In particular the problems of the brief, the difficulties of matching the design to the site, and the immense problems encountered during construction. Reviewing the Performance also brings startling revelations about seating and acoustic volumes.

But it then goes one stage further and examines aspects of ethics and aesthetics in architecture and how a building may become an artistic masterpiece yet never excel in its primary function. The text is accompanied by meticulous drawings from the author and the timeless photographs of the late Max Dupain.

ISBN 9780 949284 921 (pbk)
204 pp Softcover
245mm x 245mm

$60.00 inc. GST

Philip Goad

This new edition of the popular Melbourne Architecture Guide has been updated and expanded to include more than 50 buildings from the last ten years. Now printed in colour, it gives great insight into the gracious city of Melbourne. In particular it examines the issues of preservation versus development and urban planning while charting the features that create a city's spatial character. This guide was awarded the Bates Smart Award for excellence for published works which promote architecture.

ISBN 9780 949284 891 (pbk)
2nd Edition
332 pp Softcover
255mm x 135mm
Colour throughout

$49.95 inc GST

Anne Warr

The first comprehensive guide to the architecture and history of Shanghai from the original walled city, through the era of the foreign settlements, to the steel and glass skyscrapers of the modern city. It also includes a lengthy introductory section, covering the political and economic history of this amazing city. The book is divided into nine sections, each with a map showing an important area of the city and its nearest Metro station. Addresses are written in Chinese as well as English. This is a new title in the successful Watermark Architectural Guides series.

Author, Anne Warr is an architect, academic and founder member of Explore Shanghai Heritage. She is a resident of Shanghai.

ISBN: 9780949284761
340 pp Softback
255mm x 135mm
Full colour
$49.95 inc GST

Trevor Howells

“The really wonderful thing about guides to campus environments is their ability to uncover treasures of the interior spaces that are not immediately obvious even to staff and students … University of Sydney Architecture allows some of the richness of spaces such as MacLaurin Hall and the colleges to be located. The book invites the reader to seek out the spaces, and to realize that Sydney and its institutions hold treasures to be explored in the most liberal educational sense. It is certainly worth taking when you next walk the grounds.” Desley Luscombe Architecture Australia, September/October 2007

The University of Sydney with its many architectural styles from the Gothic Revival through Italianate, Mediterranean, Modern, Brutalist, Postmodern and Late Modern, is a microcosm of Australian public architecture. From the traditional ‘academic’ Gothic buildings of the early Colonial and Government Architects through to the glass and steel of the new century, all are carefully recorded in this guide.
The University of Sydney Architecture lists more than 100 buildings on the various campuses with detailed historical, architectural and anecdotal notes together with brief biographies of their leading architects. Together they tell the history of the university through its buildings.
The text is brilliantly supported with original colour photographs, archival drawings and photographs, floor plans, location maps and suggested walks. This is a delightful and much needed guide for students, alumni and visitors alike.

Author, Trevor Howells, is a well-known architectural writer and academic. He is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney and one of its graduates in architecture.

ISBN 0949284750
240 pp Softback
256mm x 135mm
Full colour
$40.00 inc GST

Sydneysider
AN OPTIMISTIC LIFE IN ARCHITECTURE
Don Gazzard

This book brings a breath of fresh air to the Australian architectural scene. It’s not the usual monograph aimed at impressing clients, but for once tells it as it really is. In fact this autobiography by Don Gazzard goes further, describing growing up in the Depression in a working class suburb of Sydney, on through high school, university and then apprenticeship with Harry Seidler. Gazzard’s reminiscences paint a vivid picture of the austere life in Sydney in the Thirties, Forties and Fifties. But the next decade brought new attitudes and possibilities. Gazzard was outspoken about the sacking of Joern Utzon, architect of the Opera House, fought for the conservation of Paddington, and his early proposals led to the transformation of Circular Quay and Martin Place for pedestrians. Sydneysider gives a brilliant impression of the city’s post-war development. The frank descriptions of the complex way in which buildings are created and the actual business of architecture are refreshing in their candour. Through all this, a clear image of the author evolves. From a reclusive family background emerges an obsessive man with a strong social conscience and this helps to explain the attitudes and ideas that led to his buildings and many urban activities. Sydneysider is an architectural gem.

ISBN 0 949284 78 5
232 pp Softback
230mm x 190mm
Full colour
Plans, sections, elevations
$50 inc GST

Patrick Bingham-Hall

The 2000 Olympics in Sydney has seen the largest number of purpose-built stadia ever produced for an Olympic Games. Moreover, 90 per cent of these buildings are contained in one area, at the geographic centre of the Sydney metropolis.

The overall cost runs into billions of dollars. Every step of the construction of these buildings has been recorded brilliantly in Olympic Architecture, from the original briefing of the architects through all phases of design and construction up to the final hand-over.

ISBN 0 949284 39 4

280 pp Hardback
310mm x 240mm
Five colour throughout
$93.50 inc GST

Patrick Bingham-Hall

A visual history of the best Australian architecture from settlement to the present day with incisive text, useful bibliography and full index. Over 200 beautifully reproduced photographs of Australia's best buildings from colonial architects Greenway, Verge and Blackett, to modern leaders such as DCM, Durbach and Stutchbury.

ISBN 0 949284 42 4

256 pp Softcover
245mm x 245mm
Printed 3 and 4 colour
240 photographs plus location map

$60.00 inc GST

Andrew Metcalf

Rarely, does a new development act as a fitting counterpoint to a city's natural features. However, with the Aurora Place/Macquarie Apartments complex the critically acclaimed architect, Renzo Piano, has made a major addition to the Sydney city skyline. This is the first high-rise building designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and within its curved and slender profile are numerous innovative design concepts including elevated plazas where people can meet outdoors without exiting the building. Aurora Place and Macquarie Apartments exhibit refinements of many of the themes for which RPBW is famous. This is one of the most detailed books about a single development and with its many colour photographs, drawings and sections, it will be a valuable addition to the records of modern architecture.

ISBN 0 949284 53 X

128pp Hardback
290mm x 255mm
Four-colour throughout

$99.00 inc GST

Zeny Edwards

Author/historian Zeny Edwards had, for many years, been intrigued by William Hardy Wilson (1881-1955), a significant but enigmatic figure in Australian art. As curator of Eryldene, on Sydney's North Shore, she had experienced, first hand, the magic of his architecture.

Now with access to his manuscripts, letters, photographs, sketches and prints, many hitherto unpublished, she has produced the definitive biography of this extraordinary man. Additional essays have been contributed by experts in the fields of oriental art architecture and gardens.

ISBN 0 949284 55 6

260 pp Hardback
275mm x 210mm
Four-colour throughout

$77.00 also Limited edition of 100 copies $250.00 inc GST

Wal Murray + Alan Croker

Not since William Hardy Wilson who, almost 100 years ago, made measured drawings of architectural details of colonial buildings, has such a book been attempted. But now, with the help of modern technology and the skill with which the late Wal Murray used computer drawing programs, the book Traditional Joinery goes one step further to record the most meticulous and minute details of 19 Sydney area houses. These cover all strata of society from the elegant Early Colonial Regency style of Lyndhurst at Glebe to the working class terrace houses of Susannah Place in The Rocks.

The scholarship of this book is breathtaking. In addition, the clear, unambiguous text gives vital background on technology, materials and changes in styles and moulding profiles, plus guidelines for conservation and repair.

Until now, there has been no readily accessible source of detailed and accurate drawings of traditional joinery for those in need of it.

Fortunately Traditional Joinery is here to fill that gap. It is a classic in the making and will be indispensable to all conservators as well as to those wanting to preserve old houses and to anyone who is interested in joinery design and its evolution.

large format
364 pages
measured drawings + guidelines for conservation
a landmark publication

ISBN: 0 949284 71 8
364pp Softback
310mm x 230mm
Mono

$75.00 inc GST

Graham Jahn
photographs by Patrick Bingham-Hall

CURRENTLY BEING UPDATED

Now reprinted, the first in the architectural guide series is a highly informative and interesting commentary on the built environment of Australia's largest city. An ideal guide for tourists and Sydneysiders alike, it has also proved to be a vital tool for students of architecture and design. More than 250 buildings are placed in historical context from the colonial era through to contemporary architecture. There are biographies of the major architects as well as suggested tours with maps of seven distinctive areas of Sydney.

ISBN 0 949284 32 7

256 pp Softcover
255mm x 134mm

Two-colour throughout

$40.00 inc GST

Andrew Metcalf

A detailed guide to Canberra architecture from the first plans by Walter Burley Griffin in 1918 to the design, development and construction of the infra-structure that makes it the national capital.

Each notable building is listed with a colour photograph. There are also occasional plans, cross sections and elevations. Canberra architecture is the third title in the successful series of Watermark Architectural Guides.

A "must-have" reference book for anyone even slightly interested in Australian architecture and anyone who is a resident of, or who plans to visit, the national capital.

Author Andrew Metcalf is a widely recognised architect whose previous books include Thinking Architecture and Architecture in Transition 1997 and Aurora Place, Renzo Piano, Sydney 2001.

ISBN: 0 949284 63 7
172pp Softback
253mm x 135mm

Four colour throughout
220 photographs + drawings

$40.00 inc GST