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020			_a9781935935476 _cRM188.00 _qhardback
040			_aPPAK _beng _cPPAK _erda
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100	1		_aDavison, Julian, _eauthor _edesigner.
245	1	0	_aSWAN & MACLAREN : _bA STORY OF SINGAPORE ARCHITECTURE / _cJULIAN DAVISON ; Book Design by Pablo Mandel, Julian Davison, and Christopher Flannery ; Managing Editor: Jake Anderson
246			_aStory of Singapore architecture
250			_aFirst Edition
264		1	_aSingapore : _bORO Editions & The National Archives of Singapore, _c[2020]
264		4	_c©2020
300			_av, 439 pages : _bphotographs (some color), color map, color plans ; _c28 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aBibliography : pages 424-425.
520			_aSwan & Maclaren were one of the main architectural practices working in Singapore from their foundation in 1892 through to independence in 1965. As such, the history of Singapore architecture, during that period, is very much the history of Swan & Maclaren. Of course there were other important players, local Singaporeans as well as British, working in Singapore at this time, but there is no denying that Swan & Maclaren were the key players during this era, representing the architects of choice for those who could afford them their list of clients during the period we are considering reads like a litany of the good and the great of Singapore. The output of the firm was extraordinary, too, ranging from corporate blockbusters like the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank and the Union Building of the 1920s, to factories, shophouses, department stores, hotels, schools and university buildings, railway stations, churches, mosques, a synagogue, bungalows, even the odd cattle shed! And not just in Singapore, but also in Peninsular Malaya (later Malaysia), Bangkok, Rangoon and the east Bornean state of Sarawak, once the fiefdom of the White Rajahs, later a Crown Colony.The names of partners and senior members of staff are also among the most famous in Singapore s architectural record: the eponymous Messrs Swan and Maclaren who founded the firm, Regent Alfred John Bidwell, one of the most talented architects of the British era, famous for having designed Raffles Hotel, the Victoria Memorial Hall and Theatre, the Chased-el Synagogue, the Teutonia Club (today's Goodwood Park Hotel), Stamford House and much else besides; Arts and Crafts maestro, Scotsman David McLeod Craik; the 1920s and thirties triumvirate of starchitects, Frank Lundon, Denis Santry and Frank Brewer; Serbian Slobodan Petrovitch who designed the Tanjong Pagar Railways Station, and C. Y. Koh, author of everyone s favorite early Modernist masterpiece, the Water Boat House on Fullerton Road. Similarly in the postwar era, when we see the emergence of a new generation of local Singaporean architects who would lead the practice through to independence. The scope of the book covers the period from the mid-1880s, when the two eponymous founding partners, Archibald A. Swan and J. W. B. Maclaren first came to Singapore, and continues through to the end of the British era in 1965.
610	2	0	_aSwan & Maclaren (Architectural firm) _vHistory
650	1	0	_aArchitectural firms _zSingapore _vHistory
650	2	0	_aArchitecture _zSingapore _vHistory
651		0	_aSingapore _xBuildings, structures, etc. _vHistory
700	1		_aMandel,Pablo, _edesigner.
700	1		_aFlannery, Christopher, _edesigner.
700	1		_aAnderson, Jake, _eeditor.
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