New Buildings in the Commonwealth

Edited by J. M. Richards

The Architectural Press London. 1961. 240pp

Jacket design by Herbert Spencer

Showing new architecture in the various parts of the British Commonwealth. Modernist buildings / projects which deserve more attention than they receive. 

Fascinating and well-illustrated reference work documenting new builds in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the so-called 'tropical territories’. 

Introductions by Nikolaus Pevsner, Maxwell Frey, Eric Cumine, G. A. Atkinson, R. K. Rutherford, Robin Boyd, Julius Posener, and others.

Architects featured include: Le Corbusier; Harry Seidler; Plischke & Firth; John B. Parkin Associates; James A Murray; Thompson, Berwick and Pratt; Jerome Markson; Irving Grossman; Drake and Lasdun;  Fry, Drew, Drake and Lasdun; Fry, Drew and Partners; H. Richard Hughes; A. B. Almeida; Feit and Meyers; Mence and Moore; Anthony C. Lewis; C M Correa; Eric Cumine; A Fitch and R. J. Philips; Hans Furrer; and more.