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| Taut's distinguished building for the Bookprinter's Union contained meeting facilities, apartments and printing facilities. Architecturally it has much in common with contemporary modernist buildings in Melbourne such as Stephenson and Meldrum's St. Vincent's Hospital building on the corner of Nicholson Street and Victoria Parade Fitzroy, Seabrook and Fildes' MacRobertson Girl's High School in Albert Park [1934] and even E. F. Billson's Signs factory in Warburton [1937]. Taut's building is included as an example of a generalized approach to modernist architecture drawing on traditional brick construction in Northwestern Europe and prevalent throughout the region at the time. I have included illustrations of this building to indicate that Dudok, although a distinguished exponent of this mode of architecture, had many companions and that it is not necessary, or even appropriate to invoke his name to explain the European roots of similar contemporary melbourne buildings. |
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