The Fibro Frontier. A different history of Australian architecture. Foreword by Barry Humphries.
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Holidays at the beach, battlers in the bush, life in the suburbs ...the word 'fibro' evokes many images and memories for Australians. In the 1950s almost one third of new houses were made of fibro. The Fibro Frontier reveals how this cheap, colourful and versatile building material helped many Australians design a dream home of their own - in the housing boom of the 1950s, one third of homes were owner-built and most were made of fibro. Paperback, Label: Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1999-11, Studio: Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Verkaufsrang: 4586959.

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Holidays at the beach, battlers in the bush, life in the suburbs ...the word 'fibro' evokes many images and memories for Australians. In the 1950s almost one third of new houses were made of fibro. The Fibro Frontier reveals how this cheap, colourful and versatile building material helped many Australians design a dream home of their own - in the housing boom of the 1950s, one third of homes were owner-built and most were made of fibro. Paperback, Label: Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1999-11, Studio: Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Verkaufsrang: 4586959.

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Sehr gutes Ex. - ... The outskirts of Melbourne - and undoubtedly the other Australian capitals - pullulated with low-cost fibro construction. Not just working men's houses, but garages, sheds, parades of shops; and in the Dandenong Ranges - soon to be smothered in stag-horn ferns and morning glory - the ubiquitous Devonshire Tea Room. By painting the strapwork black in contrast to the cream or off-white exterior walls, a bogus half-timbered look was often attempted, investing the tea rooms and cafes of Melbourne's more picturesque environs with an Elizabethan or Olde Worlde look. A few of these buildings, sadly decayed, could still be found in the early sixties, though by then engulfed by the lava flow of the suburbs. I remember my father warmly advocating the use of asbestos cement sheeting because of its fire resistant properties. Certainly our rural shack survived the bushfires of Black Friday in 1939, but that was only because the inferno stopped a mile and a half away. I doubt that our little house of cards could have withstood such a savage assault, though in the fire's charred path I did see the occasional gutted dwelling, its fibro walls blackened but intact. Certainly there was, in this period, a kind of craze for fibro, as there was for Masonite and Cane-ite in the fifties. You could slice it up with ease, and with the right workmen, knock up a serviceable shack over a long weekend. Given a lick of Kalsomine (cream, biscuit, baby blue, or even cherry), you might not end up with your dream home featured in the next Australian Home Beautiful, but at least you had a dwelling, however homely in appearance, that was - in the catchphrase of the period - 'as modern as tomorrow. (Vorwort). - Fibro and iron occupy different places in the iconography of Australian buildings, but fibro became ubiquitous in rural Australia for the same reasons as iron. By the early 1900s, country houses were being built mainly of manufactured materials, rather than the rough-hewn timber of pioneering days. This change happened quickly. Until the twentieth century, the building industry, and housing especially, was remarkably little affected by the industrial revolution and the factory system of production. The cost of labour was the main factor behind major changes in building materials and construction technology. Demand for the skills of stonemasons, bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers and painters gave them a bargaining power matched by few other trades. Building tradesmen consistently led the way for other Australian workers in negotiations for higher wages and shorter hours. The building trades, for example, were the first to win the eight hour day in the 1860s. High labour costs made rural Australia fertile soil for building supplies that were wholly or partly fashioned off-site. Fibro and iron were attractive to builders for their ease and cheapness of use as well as their retail price. In contrast, the low-wage economies of England and Europe were content with the old labour-intensive materials and housing styles. (S. 64) ISBN 0868247189, Foreword by Barry Humphries. 128 S. mit sehr zahlr. Abb. Broschiert.

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128 S. mit sehr zahlr. Abb. Sehr gutes Ex. - . The outskirts of Melbourne - and undoubtedly the other Australian capitals - pullulated with low-cost fibro construction. Not just working men's houses, but garages, sheds, parades of shops; and in the Dandenong Ranges - soon to be smothered in stag-horn ferns and morning glory - the ubiquitous Devonshire Tea Room. By painting the strapwork black in contrast to the cream or off-white exterior walls, a bogus half-timbered look was often attempted, investing the tea rooms and cafes of Melbourne's more picturesque environs with an Elizabethan or Olde Worlde look. A few of these buildings, sadly decayed, could still be found in the early sixties, though by then engulfed by the lava flow of the suburbs. I remember my father warmly advocating the use of asbestos cement sheeting because of its fire resistant properties. Certainly our rural shack survived the bushfires of Black Friday in 1939, but that was only because the inferno stopped a mile and a half away. I doubt that our little house of cards could have withstood such a savage assault, though in the fire's charred path I did see the occasional gutted dwelling, its fibro walls blackened but intact. Certainly there was, in this period, a kind of craze for fibro, as there was for Masonite and Cane-ite in the fifties. You could slice it up with ease, and with the right workmen, knock up a serviceable shack over a long weekend. Given a lick of Kalsomine (cream, biscuit, baby blue, or even cherry), you might not end up with your dream home featured in the next Australian Home Beautiful, but at least you had a dwelling, however homely in appearance, that was - in the catchphrase of the period - 'as modern as tomorrow. (Vorwort). - Fibro and iron occupy different places in the iconography of Australian buildings, but fibro became ubiquitous in rural Australia for the same reasons as iron. By the early 1900s, country houses were being built mainly of manufactured materials, rather than the rough-hewn timber of pioneering days. This change happened quickly. Until the twentieth century, the building industry, and housing especially, was remarkably little affected by the industrial revolution and the factory system of production. The cost of labour was the main factor behind major changes in building materials and construction technology. Demand for the skills of stonemasons, bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers and painters gave them a bargaining power matched by few other trades. Building tradesmen consistently led the way for other Australian workers in negotiations for higher wages and shorter hours. The building trades, for example, were the first to win the eight hour day in the 1860s. High labour costs made rural Australia fertile soil for building supplies that were wholly or partly fashioned off-site. Fibro and iron were attractive to builders for their ease and cheapness of use as well as their retail price. In contrast, the low-wage economies of England and Europe were content with the old labour-intensive materials and housing styles. (S. 64) ISBN 0868247189 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 800, Books.

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Powerhouse Publ, Doubleday, 128 S. mit sehr zahlr. Abb. Broschiert. Sehr gutes Ex. - ... The outskirts of Melbourne - and undoubtedly the other Australian capitals - pullulated with low-cost fibro construction. Not just working men's houses, but garages, sheds, parades of shops; and in the Dandenong Ranges - soon to be smothered in stag-horn ferns and morning glory - the ubiquitous Devonshire Tea Room. By painting the strapwork black in contrast to the cream or off-white exterior walls, a bogus half-timbered look was often attempted, investing the tea rooms and cafes of Melbourne's more picturesque environs with an Elizabethan or Olde Worlde look. A few of these buildings, sadly decayed, could still be found in the early sixties, though by then engulfed by the lava flow of the suburbs. I remember my father warmly advocating the use of asbestos cement sheeting because of its fire resistant properties. Certainly our rural shack survived the bushfires of Black Friday in 1939, but that was only because the inferno stopped a mile and a half away. I doubt that our little house of cards could have withstood such a savage assault, though in the fire's charred path I did see the occasional gutted dwelling, its fibro walls blackened but intact. Certainly there was, in this period, a kind of craze for fibro, as there was for Masonite and Cane-ite in the fifties. You could slice it up with ease, and with the right workmen, knock up a serviceable shack over a long weekend. Given a lick of Kalsomine (cream, biscuit, baby blue, or even cherry), you might not end up with your dream home featured in the next Australian Home Beautiful, but at least you had a dwelling, however homely in appearance, that was - in the catchphrase of the period - 'as modern as tomorrow. (Vorwort). - Fibro and iron occupy different places in the iconography of Australian buildings, but fibro became ubiquitous in rural Australia for the same reasons as iron. By the early 1900s, country houses were being built mainly of manufactured materials, rather than the rough-hewn timber of pioneering days. This change happened quickly. Until the twentieth century, the building industry, and housing especially, was remarkably little affected by the industrial revolution and the factory system of production. The cost of labour was the main factor behind major changes in building materials and construction technology. Demand for the skills of stonemasons, bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers and painters gave them a bargaining power matched by few other trades. Building tradesmen consistently led the way for other Australian workers in negotiations for higher wages and shorter hours. The building trades, for example, were the first to win the eight hour day in the 1860s. High labour costs made rural Australia fertile soil for building supplies that were wholly or partly fashioned off-site. Fibro and iron were attractive to builders for their ease and cheapness of use as well as their retail price. In contrast, the low-wage economies of England and Europe were content with the old labour-intensive materials and housing styles. (S. 64) ISBN 0868247189 Australien / Neuseeland [Häuser, Fibro, Einfamilienhäuser, Australian architecture] 1997.

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