Robert McGregor
Robert McGregor
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In any New Zealand town, even small country towns, you will find at least one Art Deco house. These were not built by intellectuals using an avant-garde architect as you might have found in the United States. These were built by builders using handbooks for young married couples who didn't have any intellectual pretensions at all.
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People were sure that science, education, technology and mass production were going to solve their problems,
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The fact that we were unique and that there was a huge opportunity for Napier to not only save some important heritage but to benefit economically from tourism.
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There has been a suggestion that the rebuilding of Napier in a modern style pushes New Zealanders into a greater acceptance of modernism than you would find in many other countries, even though we were quite isolated in those days,
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We knew that we had to bring in overseas tourists taking photos of them and admiring them before anybody would believe us.
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The people of Napier wanted a new modern city, they didn't want to replace the old city with another city,