Celebrating Adelaide’s modernist architecture online, in print and award-winning tours and events.
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Modernist Adelaide was founded by mid-century modern architecture and design enthusiast Stuart Symons to celebrate Adelaide’s modernist architecture online and through walking tours, house tours and events.
Immerse yourself in the mid-century jet age of Mad Men era Adelaide, when a new wave of modernist architecture redefined the city’s streetscapes and skyline. Many of Adelaide’s iconic examples of 50s, 60s and 70s architecture still stand, well preserved and well worth discovering on these popular tours.
From Australia’s first curtain-wall high-rise of the 50s to the International Style of the 60s and the Brutalism of the 70s, Modernist Adelaide will appeal to anyone with a love of mid-century architecture and design, history or just looking up and seeing the beauty in our everyday built environment.
Stuart has recently published Modernist Adelaide: 100 Buildings 1940s–1970s, the first book to provide a large-scale survey of Adelaide’s mid-century architecture. By profiling the architects and clients, specific design features and historical points of interest of 100 existing modernist buildings, Modernist Adelaide: 100 Buildings 1940s–1970s reveals South Australia’s lesser-known but substantial contribution to this architectural revolution.
