WINNING DESIGNS 1904-1927 PARIS PRIZE IN ARCHITECTURE
1928rif. 177046New York: The Pencil Points Press 1928. With an Introduction by John F. Harbeson. Pp. iv plus 35 loose plates 20 double page many with text on reverse; cr. folio; housed in a red qr. cloth portfolio with ribbon ties spine lettered in gilt red papered boards upper board lettered and decorated in gilt lightly soiled and worn fore-corners chipped the spine worn gilt dulled extremities split and frayed; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown a few nicks or tiny holes to edge of a couple of plates leaves lightly browned at edges occasional slight soiling; The Pencil Points Press New York 1928. First edition. With the inked signature of Australian architect Norman Hugh Seabrook 1906-1978 on the upper pastedown. Seabrook won a competition sponsored by Sir Macpherson Robertson to design a girl's secondary school at Albert Park Victoria. Completed in 1934 to mark the State's centenary MacRobertson Girls' High School was 'the first Australian example of the modern functionalist style of architecture developed by the Dutch architect Willem Dudok . . . . This striking style later claimed by Robin Boyd to have heralded the "1934 Revolution" of modern architecture in Victoria became a Seabrook signature' Australian Dictionary of Biography. The Pencil Points Press unknown
