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| Beginning in 1915 Dudok was for more than twenty years municipal architect for the City of Hivershum. In this role he directed the City's then rapid growth, designing a range of distinguished municipal buildings and planning whole residential areas. In this, Dudok's greatest surviving work he has combined and assimilated elements taken from Frank Lloyd Wright, Berlage, the Amsterdam School, De Stijl and Stockholm City Hall. In Melbourne, both the Heidelberg Town Hall [Peck and Kempter in association with A. C. Leith and Associates,1936-37] which received the Street Architecture Medal in !939 and the MacRobertson Girl's High School [Seabrook & Fildes 1934] are often compared with this building. Heidelberg Town Hall, in particular the tower warrants comparison but neither match Dudok's masterpiece for architectural quality and comparison of both buildings with a host of contemporary European buildings is equally fruitful. See for example Max Taut's Bookprinter's Union building in Berlin [1924-5]. |
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