Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on Modern Architecture, 1980

Abstract

a broader audience and bringing to light a remarkably varied and complex body of work, for an architect predominantly known for the suite of buildings at the Queensland Cultural Centre. The shopfronts, experiments in off-form concrete, wheat silos, and a series of high-rise office towers are fantastically interesting in their own right and reveal an architect who was commercially savvy and continually looking for ways to refine his ideas. The documentation of these projects makes a major contribution to the current understanding of Australian architecture and exposes the depth of work produced by Gibson, far beyond the handful of well-known buildings repeatedly offered up in survey texts.