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Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
  • Douglas Alexandra
  • RMIT and University of Melbourne
  • Born Shepparton, Victoria
    Shepparton, Victoria
    Shepparton is a city located on the floodplain of the Goulburn River in the north east of Victoria, Australia approximately north-east of Melbourne. It is the fifth largest city in Victoria, Australia. The estimated population of Shepparton's statistical area is 48,926.It began as a sheep station...

     6 February 1922
  • Died 19 February 2000 Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

  • University of Melbourne School of Architecture - senior lecturer
  • Berg and Alexandra, architects, Victoria
  • Modernist
  • Hamilton
    Hamilton, Victoria
    Hamilton is a city in western Victoria, Australia. It is located at the intersection of the Glenelg Highway and the Henty Highway...

     Art Gallery
  • Shepparton
    Shepparton, Victoria
    Shepparton is a city located on the floodplain of the Goulburn River in the north east of Victoria, Australia approximately north-east of Melbourne. It is the fifth largest city in Victoria, Australia. The estimated population of Shepparton's statistical area is 48,926.It began as a sheep station...

     Town Hall
  • Mildura
    Mildura, Victoria
    Mildura is a regional city in northwestern Victoria, Australia and seat of the Rural City of Mildura local government area. It is located in the Sunraysia region, and is on the banks of the Murray River. The current population is estimated at just over 30,000.Mildura is a major agricultural centre...

     Art Gallery and Performing Arts Centre
  • Joseph Allen http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070046b.htm
  • Articled to Gordon Mackinnon
  • Born Cornwall
    Cornwall
    Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

     6 August 1869
  • Arrived Australia 1879
  • Died 23 May 1933 Swan River
    Swan River (Western Australia)
    The Swan River estuary flows through the city of Perth, in the south west of Western Australia. Its lower reaches are relatively wide and deep, with few constrictions, while the upper reaches are usually quite narrow and shallow....

  • Rhodes & Co (Civil Engineers)
  • Henry Simon & Co (Milling Engineers)
  • Allen & Nicholas Perth
    Perth, Western Australia
    Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

     and Western Australia
  • East Fremantle Town Hall
  • Fremantle
    Fremantle, Western Australia
    Fremantle is a city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle was the first area settled by the Swan River colonists in 1829...

     Trades Hall
  • Geraldton Flour Mills
  • Rodney Alsop http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070050b.htm
  • Articled to Hyndman & Bates
  • Born Kew, Victoria
    Kew, Victoria
    Kew is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Boroondara. At the 2006 Census, Kew had a population of 22,516....

     22 December 1881
  • Died 26 October 1932

  • Partners
    • F L Klingender
    • Kingsley Henderson
    • Marcus Martin
    • C H Sayce
    • Bramwell Smith
    • Victoria
      Victoria (Australia)
      Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

       and Western Australia
  • Federation Arts and Crafts
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Mediterranean
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Romanesque
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Glyn, Kooyong Road, Toorak
    Toorak, Victoria
    Toorak is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district located on a rise on the south side of a bend in the Yarra River. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington...

  • Edrington, Berwick, Victoria
    Berwick, Victoria
    Berwick is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Casey. At the 2006 Census, Berwick had a population of 36,420....

     http://www.cclc.vic.gov.au/history/topics/openheritage.html
  • St. Mark's Anglican Church Camberwell, Victoria
    Camberwell, Victoria
    Camberwell is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Boroondara. At the 2006 Census, Camberwell had a population of 19,637....

    http://rogerbrown.tripod.com/Churches.html
  • Footscray Park, Ballarat Road, Footscray, Victoria
    Footscray, Victoria
    Footscray is a suburb 5 km west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Maribyrnong. At the 2006 Census, Footscray had a population of 11,401....

     http://www.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.asp?Page_Id=527&h=1
  • Temperance and General Mutual Life offices in several State capitals
  • Hackett Memorial Buildings, 1932 University of Western Australia
    University of Western Australia
    The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...

    ,
  • Royal Institute of British Architects Bronze Medal
    Royal Institute of British Architects
    The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally.-History:...

     http://www.archives.uwa.edu.au/university_archives/fact_sheet_index/the_design_of_a_university_campus
  • Sydney Ancher http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130050b.htm?hilite=Sydney%3BAncher
  • Articled to E W S Wakeley
  • Architecture Sydney Technical College
    Sydney Technical College
    The Sydney Technical College was a name used by Australia's oldest technical education institution.It began as the Sydney Mechanics' Institute in 1843...

  • Born Woollahra 25 February 1904
  • Died Waratah
    Waratah
    Waratah is a genus of five species of large shrubs or small trees in the Proteaceae, native to the southeastern parts of Australia...

     8 December 1979
  • Wunderlich Ltd
  • Prevost, Synnot & Ruwald
  • Ross & Rowe
  • Emil Sodersten
    Emil Sodersten
    Emil Lawrence Sodersten was an Australian architect active in the second quarter of the 20th century. His work encompassed the Australian architectural styles of Art Deco and Functionalist & Moderne. His deign for the Australian War Memorial was "the first national architectural monument in...

  • Prevost & Ancher
  • John D Moore
  • Ancher Mortlock Murray & Woolley
  • Post-War International
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Prevost House, Kambala Road, Bellevue Hill
    Bellevue Hill, New South Wales
    Bellevue Hill is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bellevue Hill is an affluent suburb, located 5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra....

     (1937)
  • Ancher House, Killara Sulman Medal (1945)
  • Farley House, North Curl Curl (1948)
  • English House, St Ives
    St. Ives, New South Wales
    St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. St Ives is located 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council...

     (1949)
  • Ancher House, Neutral Bay (1956)
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1975)
  • Brit Andresen
    Brit Andresen
    Brit Andresen is a Norwegian born Australian architect and was the first female recipient of the RAIA Gold Medal, awarded in 2002, for her sustained contribution to architecture through teaching, scholarship and practice.-Biography:...

  • Bachelor of Architecture University of Trondheim, Norway
  • Arrived Australia 1977
  • Andresen and O'Gorman
  • Associate Professor, Architecture, University of Queensland
    University of Queensland
    The University of Queensland, also known as UQ, is a public university located in state of Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest and largest university in Queensland and the fifth oldest in the nation...

  • Burrell Museum
    Burrell Collection
    The Burrell Collection is an art collection in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated in Pollok Country Park on the south side of the city.-History:...

    , Glasgow
    Glasgow
    Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

    , Scotland (1976)
  • House, Mooloomba
    Stradbroke Island
    Stradbroke Island, also known as Minjerribah, was a large sand island that formed much of the eastern side of Moreton Bay near Brisbane, Queensland until the late 19th century...

    , Queensland 1996
  • House, Highgate Hill Brisbane
    Brisbane
    Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

     (1997)
  • RAIA Gold Medal (2002)
  • John Andrews AO
    John Andrews (architect)
    John Hamilton Andrews is a Canadian and Australian architect.John Andrews graduated with a bachelors from the University of Sydney in 1956. In 1957 he entered the masters of architecture program at Harvard University. After graduation he worked with John Parkin in Don Mills, a suburb of Toronto,...

  • Architecture University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • Architecture Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • John Andrews International
  • Canada, United States and Australia
  • Late 20th Century Brutalist
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Late 20th Century Late Modern
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...


    • University of Canberra
      University of Canberra
      Over the years the Stone Day program has gradually become larger and larger, taking up a whole week and now Stonefest is one of Australia's most popular music festivals. The first foundation celebrations were held in 1971. In 1973 Stone Day celebrations were held over two days, which was expanded...

       Student Residences, Bruce
      Bruce, Australian Capital Territory
      Bruce is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Bruce was gazetted as a division on 6 June 1968 in recognition of Viscount Stanley Melbourne Bruce, the first Chancellor of the Australian National University and eighth Prime Minister of Australia. S. M. Bruce served as...

       (1973)
    • American Express
      American Express
      American Express Company or AmEx, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best...

       Tower, King & George Streets, Sydney (1976)
    • Australian National University
      Australian National University
      The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...

       Toad Hall Student Residences, Acton
      Acton, Australian Capital Territory
      Acton is a suburb of Canberra, Australia. Acton covers an area west of the CBD, bordered by Black Mountain to the west and Lake Burley Griffin in the south...

       (1977)
    • Intelsat
      Intelsat
      Intelsat, Ltd. is a communications satellite services provider.Originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization , it was—from 1964 to 2001—an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast...

       Headquarters Washington
      Washington, D.C.
      Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

       (1988)
    • RAIA Gold Medal (1980)
  • Harold Desbrowe Annear http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070080b.htm
  • Articled to William Salway
  • Articled to Joseph Reed
    Joseph Reed (architect)
    Joseph Reed , a Cornishman by birth, was probably the most influential Victorian era architect in Melbourne, Australia. He established a practice, Reed and Barnes in Melbourne in 1852. The practice now known as Bates Smart is one of the oldest continually operating in the world.Reed's buildings...

  • Born Bendigo16 August 1865
  • Died St Kilda
    St Kilda, Victoria
    St Kilda is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip...

     22 June 1933
  • Victoria
  • Federation Academic Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Arts and Crafts
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Free Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Springthorpe Memorial
    Springthorpe Memorial
    The Springthorpe Memorial is an elaborate Victorian era memorial located within Boroondara General Cemetery in Kew, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.The memorial was built by Melbourne doctor John Springthorpe,...

    , Kew Cemetery
    Kew, Victoria
    Kew is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Boroondara. At the 2006 Census, Kew had a population of 22,516....

     (1897)
  • Houses, 32, 34 and 38 The Eyrie Eaglemont (1903)
  • Macgeorge House, Alphington
    Alphington, Victoria
    Alphington is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Darebin and Yarra. At the 2006 Census, Alphington had a population of 4,483...

     (1910)
  • Broceliande (also known as Troon) 224 Orrong Road, Toorak
    Toorak, Victoria
    Toorak is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district located on a rise on the south side of a bend in the Yarra River. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington...

     (1918, demolished)
  • Inglesby, 97 Caroline Street, South Yarra (1919, demolished)
  • Church Street Bridge, Richmond
    Richmond, Victoria
    Richmond is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra...

     (1924)
  • Cloyne, 609 Toorak Road, Toorak (1929)
  • John Lee Archer
    John Lee Archer
    John Lee Archer , architect and engineer, was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania in 1827.- Personal life :John Lee Archer, born 26 April 1791 near Thurles, Ireland, was an important factor in the development of the townships of Tasmania during early settlement...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010024b.htm
  • Born 1791
  • Died 1852
  • Old Colonial Georgian
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Old Colonial Grecian
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Willian Archer http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030044b.htm
  • Born 1820
  • Died 1874
  • Victorian Italianate
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...


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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings, Awards & Publications
  • Born Ipswich
    Ipswich
    Ipswich is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk, England. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell...

    , England 1829
  • Arrived Australia 1852
  • Died Sydney 29 July 1904
  • Geelong, Ballarat, Brisbane
    Brisbane
    Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

    , Sydney, Newcastle
    Newcastle, New South Wales
    The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...

    , and Bathurst
    Bathurst, New South Wales
    -CBD and suburbs:Bathurst's CBD is located on William, George, Howick, Russell, and Durham Streets. The CBD is approximately 25 hectares and surrounds two city blocks. Within this block layout is banking, government services, shopping centres, retail shops, a park* and monuments...

  • Walter Bagot
    Walter Bagot (architect)
    Walter Hervey Bagot was a South Australian architect. He was one of the last great proponents of the traditional school of South Australian architecture, and remained unconvinced by Modernism...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070138b.htm
  • Apprenticed to
    E J Woods
  • Architecture King's College London
    King's College London
    King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...

     University of London
    University of London
    -20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

  • Born North Adelaide
    North Adelaide
    North Adelaide is a predominantly residential precinct of the City of Adelaide in South Australia, situated north of the River Torrens and within the Adelaide Park Lands.-History:...

     17 March 1880
  • Died North Adelaide 27 July 1963
  • Woods & Bagot
  • Woods, Bagot, Laybourne-Smith & Irwin
  • South Australia
    South Australia
    South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

  • Inter-War Academic Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide
    St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide
    St Peter's Cathedral is an Anglican Cathedral in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is the seat of the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide...

     (1907–45)
  • Chapel of the Convent of Mercy, Adelaide
    Adelaide
    Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

  • St Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Adelaide, additions
  • Bonython Hall
    Bonython Hall
    Bonython Hall is the "great hall" of the University of Adelaide, located in the university grounds and facing North Terrace, Adelaide. The building is on the Register of the National Estate and the South Australian Heritage Register...

    , University of Adelaide
    University of Adelaide
    The University of Adelaide is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third oldest university in Australia...

     (1936)
  • Barr Smith Library
    Barr Smith Library
    The Barr Smith Library is the main library of the University of Adelaide, situated in the centre of the North Terrace campus. The library was named in honour of Robert Barr Smith who donated £9000 to buy books...

    , University of Adelaide
  • Arthur Baldwinson http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130117b.htm
    Architecture Gordon Institute of Technology, Geelong, Victoria
    Geelong, Victoria
    Geelong is a port city located on Corio Bay and the Barwon River, in the state of Victoria, Australia, south-west of the state capital; Melbourne. It is the second most populated city in Victoria and the fifth most populated non-capital city in Australia...

  • Born Kallaroo 26 February 1908
  • Died Royal North Shore Hospital
    Royal North Shore Hospital
    The Royal North Shore Hospital is a major public teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia, located in St Leonards. It serves as a teaching hospital for Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney and has approximately 740 beds. It is the referral hospital for Northern Sydney and the Central...

     25 August 1969

  • Worked with:
    • Raymond McGrath
      Raymond McGrath
      Raymond McGrath was an Australian-born architect and interior designer who for the greater part of his career was Principal Architect for the Office of Public Works in Ireland.-Life:...

       (London)
    • E Maxwell Fry & Walter Gropius
      Walter Gropius
      Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....

       (London)
    • Stephenson & Meldrum (Sydney)

    Partners:
    • John Oldham
      John Oldham (architect)
      John Oldham at Subiaco, Western Australia) was a landscape architect in Western Australia. Oldham a pioneer of landscape architecture in Australia, and his journalist wife Ray were founding members of the National Trust and were prominent in the fight to save some of WA’s iconic buildings during...

    • Charles Sylvester-Booth
    • Charles Peters
      Charles Peters
      Charles Peters is an American journalist, editor, and author.Founder and former editor-in-chief of The Washington Monthly magazine, he is currently the president of Understanding Government. Peters was born in Charleston, West Virginia in 1926. He attended local public schools, graduating from...

    • Geoffrey Twibill
  • Post-War International
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Coomaditchy Lagoon housing project, Port Kembla (1938)
  • Collins House, Palm Beach
    Palm Beach, Florida
    The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The Intracoastal Waterway separates it from the neighboring cities of West Palm Beach and Lake Worth...

     (1938)
  • Kingsford Smith House, Pittwater (1939)
  • Maritime Services Board ferry wharves, Manly
    Manly, New South Wales
    Manly is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Manly is located 17 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of Manly Council, in the Northern Beaches region.-History:Manly was named...

     and Circular Quay (1940)
  • Foot/Haxton House, Clareville (1949)
  • Max Dupain
    Max Dupain
    Maxwell Spencer Dupain AC was a renowned Australian modernist photographer.-Early life:Dupain received his first camera as a gift in 1924, spurring his interest in photography He later joined the Photographic Society of NSW, and when he left school, he worked for Cecil Bostock in Sydney.-Early...

     House, Castlecrag (1952)
  • Baldwinson House, Greenwich (1953)
  • Hotel Belmont, Belmont
    Belmont, New South Wales
    Belmont is a suburb in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, located 20 kilometres  from Newcastle's central business district on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie and is part of the City of Lake Macquarie....

     (1956) Sulman Medal
  • James Barnet
    James Barnet
    James Johnstone Barnet was the Colonial Architect for New South Wales from 1862 - 1890.-Life and career:Barnet was born at Almericlose, Arbroath, Scotland. The son of a builder, he was educated at the local high school...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030097b.htm?hilite=James%3BBarnet
  • Apprenticed to a builder
  • Studied drawing and design under William Dyce
    William Dyce
    William Dyce was a distinguished Scottish artist, who played a significant part in the formation of public art education in the UK, as perhaps the true parent of the South Kensington Schools system.Dyce began his career at the Royal Academy schools, and then traveled to Rome for the first time in...

  • Studied architecture with C J Richardson
  • Born Arbroath
    Arbroath
    Arbroath or Aberbrothock is a former royal burgh and the largest town in the council area of Angus in Scotland, and has a population of 22,785...

    , Scotland 1827
  • Arrived Australia December 1854
  • Died Sydney 16 December 1904
  • Clerk of Works, University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • NSW Colonial Architect
    (1862-90)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Victorian Italianate
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Free Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Mannerist
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Defence works, Port Jackson
    Port Jackson
    Port Jackson, containing Sydney Harbour, is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia. It is known for its beauty, and in particular, as the location of the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge...

    , Botany Bay
    Botany Bay
    Botany Bay is a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, a few kilometres south of the Sydney central business district. The Cooks River and the Georges River are the two major tributaries that flow into the bay...

     and Newcastle
    Newcastle, New South Wales
    The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...

  • Courthouses
    Court houses in New South Wales
    Court houses in New South Wales were designed by the Colonial Architect, later known as the Government Architect.- Current role :Local Courts in New South Wales have jurisdiction to deal with:* most criminal and summary prosecutions...

    , lock-ups, police stations and post offices throughout New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Macquarie Lighthouse
    Macquarie Lighthouse
    The Macquarie Lighthouse, also known as South Head Upper Light, was the first, and is the longest serving, lighthouse site in Australia. It is located on Dunbar Head, Vaucluse near the entrance to Sydney Harbour. There has been a navigational aid in this vicinity since 1791 and a lighthouse near...

    , replacement, Vaucluse
    Vaucluse, New South Wales
    Vaucluse is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Vaucluse is located north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of Waverley Council and the Municipality of Woollahra....

  • Australian Museum
    Australian Museum
    The Australian Museum is the oldest museum in Australia, with an international reputation in the fields of natural history and anthropology. It features collections of vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, as well as mineralogy, palaeontology, and anthropology...

    , College Street, Sydney
    College Street, Sydney
    College Street in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia is a major street in the centre of the Central Business District. It runs from Queens Square near St James station to Whitlam Square at Liverpool St...

  • General Post Office, Martin Place, Sydney
    Martin Place, Sydney
    Martin Place, formerly known as Moore Street, is a pedestrian mall in the central business district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Home to the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Macquarie Bank and other corporations, Martin Place is synonymous with corporate...

  • Colonial Secretary's Office, Macquarie Street, Sydney
    Macquarie Street, Sydney
    Macquarie Street is the easternmost street of Sydney's central business district. Macquarie Street extends from Hyde Park at its southern end to the Sydney Opera House at its north.-Description:...

  • Lands Department, Bridge Street, Sydney
  • Customs House, Circular Quay
  • Medical School, University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • Callan Park Lunatic Asylum, Rozelle
  • Tarban Creek Asylum, Gladesville
  • Garden Palace
    Garden Palace
    thumb|300px|Sydney's Garden Palace; an architectural drawing from the 1870s.The Garden Palace was a large purpose-built exhibition building constructed to house the Sydney International Exhibition ...

    , Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
    Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
    The Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia, are the most central of the three major botanical gardens open to the public in Sydney....

  • Nahum Barnet
    Nahum Barnet
    Nahum Barnet was an architect working in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia during the Victorian and Edwardian periods....

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10025b.htm
  • Early career as insurance clerk
  • Articled to Leonard Terry and Percy Oakden (Terry & Oakden)
  • Born Swanston Street, Melbourne
    Swanston Street, Melbourne
    Swanston Street is a major thoroughfare in the centre of Melbourne, Australia. It is historically one of the main streets of central Melbourne, laid out in 1837 as part of the Hoddle Grid, the layout of major streets that makes up the central business district...

     16 August 1855
  • Died St Kilda
    St Kilda, Victoria
    St Kilda is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip...

     1 September 1931
  • Worked with John Grainger
    John Grainger
    John Grainger was an Irish cleric and antiquarian.Grainger was educated at Belfast Academy and Trinity College, Dublin. After gaining a Doctorate of Divinity he became Rector of Broughshane, County Antrim...

  • Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

  • Victorian Free Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Free Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Academic Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne
  • Auditorium, Collins Street, Melbourne
    Collins Street, Melbourne
    Collins Street is a major street in the Melbourne central business district and runs approximately east to west.It is notable as Melbourne's traditional main street and best known street, is often regarded as Australia's premier street, with some of the country's finest Victorian era buildings.The...

  • Austral Building, Collins Street, Melbourne
  • Wertheim Piano Factory
  • Melbourne Synagogue, Toorak Road, South Yarra (1928)
  • Hillson Beasley http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10030b.htm
  • Born 1855
  • Died 1936
  • Chief Architect, Western Australian Public Works Department
  • Western Australia
  • Federation Romanesque
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Free Style
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Arts & Crafts
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Swan Barracks
    The Barracks Arch
    The Barracks' Arch is located on the corner of Malcolm and Elder Streets, at the western end of St Georges Terrace in Perth, Western Australia. It effectively blocks a clear view from Parliament House down St George's Terrace.-The Barracks:...

    , Perth
    Perth, Western Australia
    Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

     (1898)
  • Fremantle
    Fremantle, Western Australia
    Fremantle is a city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle was the first area settled by the Swan River colonists in 1829...

     Post Office, Fremantle, Market St (1907)
  • Perth Modern School
    Perth Modern School
    Perth Modern School is an academically-selective co-educational public high school located in Subiaco, an inner city suburb of Perth, Western Australia.The school, established in 1911, now caters for students with high academic ability....

    , West Building, Roberts Road, Perth
    Subiaco, Western Australia
    Subiaco is an inner western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, situated to the north west of Kings Park. Its Local Government Area is the City of Subiaco.-History:Prior to European settlement the area was home to the Noongar Indigenous people....

     (1910)
  • Guilford Bell
  • Articled to Lange L Powell
  • Architecture Central Technical College
  • Studied under Professor Sir Albert Richardson
    Albert Richardson
    Sir Albert Edward Richardson K.C.V.O., F.R.I.B.A, F.S.A., was a leading English architect, teacher and writer about architecture during the first half of the 20th century...

    , London
  • Born Brisbane
    Brisbane
    Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

     21 December 1912
  • Died Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

     9 January 1992
  • John A. La Gerche

  • Partners
    • Neil Clerehan
      Neil Clerehan
      Neil Clerehan was born in Melbourne in 1922. He is a President’s Prize for the Hall of Fame Award -winning Australian Architect. Clerehan established several architecture firms: Neil Clerehan Architects , Guilford Bell and Neil Clerehan , Neil Clerehan and Associates , Clerehan – Cran and Neil...

    • Graham Fisher
    • Victoria
      Victoria (Australia)
      Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

       and New South Wales
      New South Wales
      New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Post War International
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Post War Melbourne Regional
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Late 20th Century Stripped Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Late 20th Century International
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • ANA
    All Nippon Airways
    , also known as or ANA, is one of the largest airlines in Japan. It is headquartered at the Shiodome City Center in the Shiodome area in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It operates services to 49 destinations in Japan and 35 international routes and employed over 14,000 employees as of May 2009...

     Air Terminal, Philip Street, Sydney (1948)
  • Hayman Island Resort, Hayman Island
    Hayman Island
    Hayman Island is the most northerly of the Whitsunday Islands, part of the Cumberland Islands, which are located off the coast of Central Queensland, Australia at...

    , Queensland (1952)
  • Hordern House, Point Piper (1956) demolished
  • Santosa, Albany Road, Toorak
    Toorak, Victoria
    Toorak is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district located on a rise on the south side of a bend in the Yarra River. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington...

     (1963)
  • Myer House, Yulgibar Station, Grafton
    Grafton, New South Wales
    The city of Grafton is the commercial hub of the Clarence River Valley. Established in 1851, Grafton features many historic buildings and tree-lined streets. Located approximately 630 kilometres north of Sydney and 340 km south of Brisbane, Grafton and the Clarence Valley can be reached...

     (1966) restoration and alteration
  • Gordon House, Birkenburn Station, Bungendore
    Bungendore, New South Wales
    Bungendore is a town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Palerang Council. It is on the Kings Highway near Lake George, the Molonglo River Valley and the Australian Capital Territory border. It has become a major tourist centre in recent years, popular with visitors from...

     (1968)
  • Fairfax Pavilion, Retford Park, Bowral
    Bowral, New South Wales
    -Attractions:Bowral is perhaps the best known of the towns and villages of the Southern Highlands, and in recent years has become the commercial centre of the Wingecarribee Shire. Bowral is known for its boutiques, antique stores, gourmet restaurants, and rich coffee culture.Bowral is home to the...

     (1969)
  • William G. Bennett
    William G. Bennett
    William Garnsworthy Bennett was a Western Australian architect, well known for his Art Deco and Inter-War Functionalist style of civic, commercial and domestic buildings, including the Lord Forrest Olympic Pool in Kalgoorlie, the Beverley Town Hall, the Raffles Hotel and Plaza Theatre and Arcade...

  • Born 1896
  • Died 1977
  • Western Australia
  • Inter-War Art Deco
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Regal Theatre
    Regal Theatre
    The Regal Theatre is a theatre located in the suburb of Subiaco in Perth, Western Australia.The theatre was named for King George VI who, at the time, had taken up the throne....

    , Subiaco
    Subiaco, Western Australia
    Subiaco is an inner western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, situated to the north west of Kings Park. Its Local Government Area is the City of Subiaco.-History:Prior to European settlement the area was home to the Noongar Indigenous people....

  • Gledden Building
    Gledden Building
    The Gledden Building is an Art Deco office building in Perth, Western Australia. The building was constructed on land that had been bequested to the University of Western Australia by surveyor Robert Gledden.-Site and brief:...

    , Perth
  • Raffles Hotel
    Raffles Hotel, Perth
    Raffles Hotel is located at the corner of Canning Highway and Canning Beach Road in the Perth suburb of Applecross, Western Australia. It is a two-storey hotel designed in the Inter-War Functionalist style and is one of the few examples of a hotel in this style surviving in the Perth metropolitan...

    , Applecross
    Applecross, Western Australia
    Applecross is an affluent riverside suburb of Perth, Western Australia, bounded by Canning Highway and the Swan River. It is located within the City of Melville.Like the name Perth, the suburb of Applecross borrows its name from the region in Scotland...

  • Plaza Theatre, Perth
  • Beaucott Buildings, Mount Lawley
    Mount Lawley, Western Australia
    Mount Lawley is an inner suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Most of the suburb lies within the Local Government Area of the City of Stirling and small portions are in the City of Vincent and City of Bayswater...

  • Nedlands Park Masonic Hall, Nedlands
    Nedlands, Western Australia
    The City of Nedlands is a Local Government Area in the inner western suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located about west of Perth's central business district...

  • Raymond Berg
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1974)
  • John Bibb http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010090b.htm
  • Born 1810
  • Died 1862
  • James Birrell
    James Birrell
    James Birrell is a retired architect responsible for the design of significant buildings in Queensland, Australia. James Birrell practiced from 1951 to 1986.-Personal life:...

  • Queensland
  • RAIA Gold Medal (2005)
  • James Blackburn (Architect)
    James Blackburn (architect)
    James Blackburn was an English civil engineer, surveyor and architect best known for his work in Australia, to which he had been sentenced for forgery...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010103b.htm
  • Born 1803
  • Died 1854
  • Old Colonial Grecian
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Old Colonial Gothic Picturesque
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Italianate
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Romanesque
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Rustic Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Church Ruin, Port Arthur
    Port Arthur, Tasmania
    Port Arthur is a small town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. Port Arthur is one of Australia's most significant heritage areas and the open air museum is officially Tasmania's top tourist attraction. It is located approximately 60 km south east of...

     (1836)
  • St Mark's Anglican Church, Pontville
    Pontville, Tasmania
    Pontville is a small rural community north of Hobart, in the south east of Tasmania, Australia. At the 2006 census, Pontville had a population of 2,166....

     (1841)
  • St Matthew's Presbyterian Church, Glenorchy
    Hobart
    Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...

  • Congregational Church
    Congregational church
    Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs....

    , New Town
    New Town, Tasmania
    New Town is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, located about 4 km north of the central business district of Hobart. One of the city's oldest suburbs, it is now an inner city residential suburb. Many of its streets are lined with Federation style cottages...

     (1842)
  • Lady Franklin Museum, Lenah
    Hobart
    Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...

     (1843)
  • The Grange, Campbelltown
    Tasmania
    Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

     (1840s)
  • Arthur Blackett http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030165b.htm?hilite=edmund%3Bblacket
  • Born Sydney 1848
  • Died 1929
  • Blackett & Son
  • Blacket Brothers (1883–85)
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Victorian Romanesque
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Cyril Blackett http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030165b.htm?hilite=edmund%3Bblacket
  • Born Sydney 1857
  • Died Manly
    Manly, New South Wales
    Manly is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Manly is located 17 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of Manly Council, in the Northern Beaches region.-History:Manly was named...

     1937
  • Blackett & Son
  • Blacket Brothers (1883–85)
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Victorian Academic Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Romanesque
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • All Saints Anglican Church, tower addition, Bodalla
    Bodalla, New South Wales
    Bodalla is a small town on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia, and located in the local government area of Eurobodalla Shire. The town sits on the Princes Highway, and is connected by road to Moruya, Narooma, Nerrigundah, Eurobodalla and Potato Point.The Yuin people are consider to be...

     (1901)
  • Edmund Blackett
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030165b.htm?hilite=edmund%3Bblacket
  • Born Surrey
    Surrey
    Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...

     25 August 1817
  • Arrived Australia 1842
  • Died Petersham
    Petersham, New South Wales
    Petersham is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Petersham is located 6 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Marrickville Council...

     9 February 1883
  • NSW Colonial Architect
    (1849-54)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • Blackett & Sons
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Victorian Academic Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Free Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Rustic Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Great Hall University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • St. Paul's College, Sydney
    St. Paul's College, Sydney
    St Paul's College in Sydney, Australia, is an Anglican residential college for men which is affiliated with the University of Sydney. Founded in 1856 by an 1854 act of the New South Wales Legislative Council, it is Australia's oldest university college...

  • Anglican Churches, St Mark's Darling Point, St Paul's Redfern
    Redfern, New South Wales
    Redfern is an inner-city suburb of Sydney. Redfern is 3 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney...

    , St Philip's Church, Sydney
    St Philip's Church, Sydney
    St Philip's Church, Sydney is the oldest Anglican church parish in Australia. The church is located in the Sydney CBD, between York Street, Clarence and Jamison Streets on a location known as Church Hill. St Philip's is part of the Diocese of Sydney, Australia...

    , St Paul's Carcoar, St Mary's West Maitland, St Paul's Burwood
    Burwood, New South Wales
    Burwood is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Burwood is located 12 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of Burwood Council....

     St Stephen's Newtown
    Newtown, New South Wales
    Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west is located approximately four kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, straddling the local government areas of the City of Sydney and Marrickville Council in the state of New South Wales, Australia....

     All Saints' Woollahra, St Saviour's Goulburn, St Peter's East Maitland, St Thomas's North Sydney
    North Sydney, New South Wales
    North Sydney is a suburb and commercial district on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. North Sydney is located 3 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of North Sydney...

     and St Stephen's Willoughby
    Willoughby, New South Wales
    Willoughby is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Willoughby is located 8 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Willoughby....

  • William Blackett http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070320b.htm
  • Born 1873
  • Died 1962
  • Gorrie Blair
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • Born Scotland 1862
  • NSW Government Architect
    (1923-26)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Several NSW War Memorials
  • Court House, Katoomba
  • Wards 24 and 25, Callan Park
  • Harold Boas
    Harold Boas
    Harold Boas was a town planner and architect in Western Australia. Boas designed many public buildings in and around Perth and was an influential Jewish community leader....

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130239b.htm
  • Born Adelaide 27 September 1883
  • Died Subiaco
    Subiaco, Western Australia
    Subiaco is an inner western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, situated to the north west of Kings Park. Its Local Government Area is the City of Subiaco.-History:Prior to European settlement the area was home to the Noongar Indigenous people....

     17 September 1980
  • M. F. Cavanagh & Austin Bastow
  • Oldham, Boas, Ednie-Brown & Partners
  • Western Australia
    Western Australia
    Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

  • King's Picture Theatre (1905)
  • Nedlands Park Hotel (1907)
  • Radio station 6WF (1924)
  • Edith Dircksey Cowan Memorial
    Edith Dircksey Cowan Memorial
    The Edith Dircksey Cowan Memorial, formerly known as the Edith Cowan Memorial Clock, is a clock tower in Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia. It was built in 1934 as a memorial to Edith Cowan, the first female member of any Australian parliament...

     (1934)
  • Emu Brewery
    Emu Brewery
    The Emu Brewery was a brewery in Perth, Western Australia, which traced its history to the first decade of the colony. Founded in 1837 by James Stokes as the Albion Brewery, it was located beside the Swan River on a block bounded by Mounts Bay Road, Spring Street and Mount Street...

     (1938)
  • Adelphi Hotel
  • London Court
    London Court
    London Court is a three- and four-level open-roofed shopping arcade located in the central business district in Perth, Western Australia. It was built in 1937 by wealthy gold financier and businessman, Claude de Bernales for residential and commercial purposes...

     (1937)
  • Gledden Building
    Gledden Building
    The Gledden Building is an Art Deco office building in Perth, Western Australia. The building was constructed on land that had been bequested to the University of Western Australia by surveyor Robert Gledden.-Site and brief:...

     (1938)
  • Robin Boyd
    Robin Boyd
    Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd CBE was an influential Australian architect, writer, teacher and social commentator...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130269b.htm?hilite=Robin%3BBoyd
  • Born 1917
  • Died 1971
  • Grounds, Romberg & Boyd
  • Post-War Melbourne Regional
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (1969)
  • Alfred Brown http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130306b.htm
  • Born 1893
  • Died 1976
  • Henry Budden CBE
    Henry Budden
    Henry [Harry] Ebenezer Budden CBE was a Sulman Award winning Australian architect active in the first 40 years of the 20th century. His work encompassed the styles of the Federation Arts and Crafts and Bungalow through to the Inter-War Stripped Classical and Art Deco...

  • Articled to Harry Kent
  • Architecture Sydney Technical College
    Sydney Technical College
    The Sydney Technical College was a name used by Australia's oldest technical education institution.It began as the Sydney Mechanics' Institute in 1843...

  • Royal Academy
    Royal Academy
    The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...

  • Born Rockley, New South Wales
    Rockley, New South Wales
    Rockley is a small village in the Central Tablelands region in New South Wales, Australia. At the 2006 census, Rockley had a population of 174 people....

     11 August 1871
  • Died Sydney, New South Wales 25 December 1944
  • Sir Austin Webb
  • Kent & Budden (1899–1912)
  • Kent Budden & Greenwell (1912–19)
  • Budden & Greenwell (1919–22)
  • H E Budden (1922-40)
  • Budden & Nangle (1940–44)
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Federation Arts and Crafts
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Bungalow
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Stripped Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Art Deco
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Houses at 41 & 43 Woolwich Road, Hunters Hill (1898)
  • Houses at 2 & 4 Prince Edward Parade, Hunters Hill (1898)
  • Houses at 1 & 3 Prince Edward Parade, Hunters Hill (1912)
  • Emu Creek, Emu Creek Road, Walcha
    Walcha, New South Wales
    Walcha is a parish and town at the south-eastern edge of the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia.The town serves as the seat of Walcha Shire. Walcha is located 425 kilometres by road from Sydney at the intersection of the Oxley Highway and Thunderbolts Way...

     (1908)
  • Mothers and Wives Memorial to Soldiers Woolloomooloo (1922)
  • David Jones
    David Jones Limited
    David Jones Limited , colloquially known as DJs, is a high-end Australian department store chain.David Jones was founded in 1838 by David Jones, a Welsh immigrant, and is claimed to be the oldest continuously operating department store in the world still trading under its original name. It...

    , Elizabeth Street, Sydney
    Elizabeth Street, Sydney
    Elizabeth Street is a street in Sydney, Australia.-Description and history:Elizabeth Street runs south from Hunter Street, past Hyde Park and David Jones, Central station and through the inner city suburbs of Surry Hills, Redfern, Waterloo and Zetland...

     (1925)
  • Brassey House, Barton ACT
    Barton, Australian Capital Territory
    Barton is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Barton is named after Sir Edmund Barton, Australia's first Prime Minister. Streets in Barton are named after Governors....

     (1927)
  • Railways House, 19 York Street, Sydney (1936) Sulman Medal
  • Transport House, Macquarie Street, Sydney
    Macquarie Street, Sydney
    Macquarie Street is the easternmost street of Sydney's central business district. Macquarie Street extends from Hyde Park at its southern end to the Sydney Opera House at its north.-Description:...

     (1938)
  • Metropolitan Water Sewerage & Drainage Board Building, Pitt Street, Sydney (1939)
  • Walter Bunning CMG
    Walter Bunning
    Walter Ralston Bunning was a prominent Australian architect and urban planner.- Early life :Bunning was born in Brisbane. During the depression he moved to Sydney to study at East Sydney Technical College graduating in 1936. He then worked in the offices of Carlyle Greenwell and Stephenson &...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130335b.htm
  • Architecture Sydney Technical College
    Sydney Technical College
    The Sydney Technical College was a name used by Australia's oldest technical education institution.It began as the Sydney Mechanics' Institute in 1843...

  • Town Planning Regent Street Polytechnic
    University of Westminster
    The University of Westminster is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. Its origins go back to the foundation of the Royal Polytechnic Institution in 1838, and it was awarded university status in 1992.The university's headquarters and original campus are based on Regent...

    , London
  • Born South Brisbane 19 May 1912
  • Died Bondi Junction 13 October 1977
  • Carlyle Greenwell
    Carlyle Greenwell
    Carlyle Greenwell was an Australian architect whose houses, designed in the first half of the 20th century, are now heritage listed and a philanthropist whose bequest to the University of Sydney funds research in Anthropology and Archaeology.-Early life:Greenwell was born in Windsor and was...

  • Stephenson & Meldrum
  • H Ruskin Rowe
  • Bunning & Madden
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

     and Australian Capital Territory
    Australian Capital Territory
    The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

  • Post-War & Late 20th Century International
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Late 20th Century Stripped Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Bunning House, Ryrie Street, Mosman (1952)
  • ANZAC House, College Street, Sydney (1957) RIBA Bronze Medal
    Riba
    Riba means one of the senses of "usury" . Riba is forbidden in Islamic economic jurisprudence fiqh and considered as a major sin...

  • Liner House, Bridge Street, Sydney (1962) Sir John Sulman Medal
    Sir John Sulman Medal
    The Sir John Sulman Medal is a New South Wales architectural prize presented by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and was first awarded in 1932....

  • Bruce Hall, Australian National University
    Australian National University
    The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...

     (1961)
  • International House, University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

     (1967)
  • National Library of Australia
    National Library of Australia
    The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library of Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the...

     (1968)
  • Homes in the Sun (Published 1945)
  • Gregory Burgess
    Gregory Burgess
    Gregory Burgess is a Melbourne-based architect. Burgess is especially notable for his buildings for indigenous communities in Australia, and for his participatory design approach which has produced some remarkable and unique buildings....

  • Late 20th Century Post-Modern
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (2004)
  • Walter Butler
    Walter Butler (architect)
    Walter Richmond Butler , was an Australian architect trained in the Arts and Crafts style, born in Somerset, England.-Personal life:...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070514b.htm
  • Articled to Alexander Lauder
    Alexander Lauder
    Alexander de Lawedre was for the last five months of his life Bishop of Dunkeld, where he had previously been Archdeacon.-Biography:...

     (Barnstaple)
  • Born Somerset, England 24 March 1864
  • Arrived Australia 1888
  • Died 1949
  • J D Sedding (London)

  • Partners
    • Beverley Ussher
    • George Inskip
    • Ernest Bradshaw
    • Richard Butler (Nephew)
    • Marcus Martin
    • Hugh Pettit
  • Federation Arts & Crafts
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Residences in Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

  • Anglican Cathedral, Wangaratta (1907)
  • Christ Church Anglican, Benalla (1910)
  • Collins House, Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

     (1910)
  • Queensland Insurance Building, Melbourne (1911)
  • Edzell, additions, St Georges Road, Toorak (1917)
  • Coombe Cottage, lodge and gatehouse, Coldstream
    Coldstream
    Coldstream is a small town in the Borders district of Scotland. It lies on the north bank of the River Tweed in Berwickshire, while Northumberland in England lies to the south bank, with Cornhill-on-Tweed the nearest village...

     (1925)
  • Bank branches for the Union Bank of Australia
  • Modern Architectural Design (Published 1902)
  • Healthy Homes (Published 1902)
  • Richard Butterworth
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1986)

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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
    • J Burcham Clamp http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080001b.htm
    • Articled to H C Kent
    • Architecture
      Sydney Technical College
      Sydney Technical College
      The Sydney Technical College was a name used by Australia's oldest technical education institution.It began as the Sydney Mechanics' Institute in 1843...

    • Architecture Lectures
      University of Sydney
      University of Sydney
      The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • Born George Street, Sydney
    George Street, Sydney
    George Street is one of Sydney's most notable city streets. There are more high rise buildings and more ASX 100 companies located here than anywhere else in Australia, and is well known for being busy around-the-clock...

     30 November 1869
  • Died Cremorne
    Cremorne, New South Wales
    Cremorne is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Cremorne is located 6 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council....

     7 July 1931

  • Partners
    • T M Smith
    • Walter Burley Griffin
      Walter Burley Griffin
      Walter Burley Griffin was an American architect and landscape architect, who is best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australia's capital city...

    • C H Mackellar
    • C H Finch
    • John Clamp (Son)
  • Inter-War Old English
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Chicagoesque
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Shore Chapel
    Sydney Church of England Grammar School
    Sydney Church of England Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for boys, located in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    , North Sydney
    North Sydney, New South Wales
    North Sydney is a suburb and commercial district on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. North Sydney is located 3 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of North Sydney...

  • St Matthew's Anglican Church, Manly
    Manly, New South Wales
    Manly is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Manly is located 17 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of Manly Council, in the Northern Beaches region.-History:Manly was named...

     (with Wright and Apperly)
  • Church of England Boys' Home, Carlingford
    Carlingford, County Louth
    Carlingford is a coastal town and townland in northern County Louth, Ireland. It is situated between Carlingford Lough and Slieve Foy, sometimes known as Carlingford Mountain...

  • Canberra Grammar School
    Canberra Grammar School
    Canberra Grammar School is an independent, day and boarding school for boys, located in Red Hill, a suburb of Canberra, the capital of Australia....

  • Ainslie Hotel, Canberra
    Canberra
    Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

  • Ross Chisholm
  • Cameron, Chisholm & Nicol
  • Australia
  • Late 20th Century Stripped Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Late 20th Century Perth Reginal
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Late 20th Century Brutalist
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Late 20th Century Late Modern
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Reid Library, University of Western Australia
    University of Western Australia
    The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...

    , Crawley
    Crawley
    Crawley is a town and local government district with Borough status in West Sussex, England. It is south of Charing Cross, north of Brighton and Hove, and northeast of the county town of Chichester, covers an area of and had a population of 99,744 at the time of the 2001 Census.The area has...

     (1964)
  • National Carillon
    National Carillon
    The National Carillon, situated on Aspen Island in central Canberra, Australia is a large carillon managed and maintained by the National Capital Authority on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia.- History :...

    , Canberra
    Canberra
    Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

     (1970)
  • Allendale Square, St Georges Terrace, Perth
    Perth, Western Australia
    Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

     (1976)
  • Fire Brigades Board Headquarters, Hay Street, Perth (1986)
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1983)
  • J James Clark
    John James Clark
    John James Clark , an Australian architect, was born in Liverpool, England. Clark’s 30 years in public service, in combination with 33 in private practice, produced some of Australia’s most notable public buildings, as well as at least one prominent building in New Zealand.-Biography:John James...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030383b.htm
  • Prime instructor in architecture, Pritchard of Smith and Pritchard Architects
  • Born Liverpool, England 23 January 1838
  • Arrived Australia 10 March 1852
  • Died St Kilda, Victoria
    St Kilda, Victoria
    St Kilda is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip...

     25 June 1915
  • Colonial Architect's Office, Victoria (1852–78)
  • Private practice, Collins Street, Melbourne
    Collins Street, Melbourne
    Collins Street is a major street in the Melbourne central business district and runs approximately east to west.It is notable as Melbourne's traditional main street and best known street, is often regarded as Australia's premier street, with some of the country's finest Victorian era buildings.The...

     (1880)
  • Private practice with engineer brother, George Clark, Sydney (1881–83)
  • Colonial Architect, Queensland (1883–85)
  • Private practice with E J Clark (Son), Australia (1896–1915)
  • Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

    , New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

    , Queensland and Western Australia
  • Victorian Italianate
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Academic Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Free Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Free Style
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...


    • Old Treasury Building, Melbourne
      Old Treasury Building, Melbourne
      The Old Treasury Building on Spring Street in Melbourne, was once home to the Treasury Department of the Government of Victoria, but is now a museum of Melbourne history, known as the Old Treasury Building.-History:...

       (1857–62)
    • Royal Mint, Melbourne
      Melbourne Mint
      The Melbourne Mint, in Melbourne, Australia, was a branch of the British Royal Mint. Until 1916 it minted only gold sovereigns, and all Australian coins between 1927 and 1967...

       (1869–72)
    • Treasury Building, Brisbane
      Treasury Building, Brisbane
      The former Queensland Government Treasury Building, is located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on a city block surrounded by George Street, Queen Street, Elizabeth Street and William Street....

       (1889)
  • Marshall Clifton http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130489b.htm
  • Born Wokalup, Western Australia
    Wokalup, Western Australia
    Wokalup is a town located in the South West region of Western Australia along the South Western Highway, between Harvey and Brunswick Junction. At the 2006 census, Wokalup had a population of 449....

     11 September 1903
  • Died Mosman Park, Western Australia
    Mosman Park, Western Australia
    The Town of Mosman Park is a Local Government Area of Western Australia. It covers an area of approximately 4.3 km² in western metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia and lies about 14 km southwest of the Perth CBD and 5 km from Fremantle.-History:The Buckland Hill Road...

     3 December 1975
  • Clifton Parry
  • Clifton Leach
  • Inter-War (Spanish Mission)
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • International style
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Captain Stirling Hotel, Nedlands
    Nedlands, Western Australia
    The City of Nedlands is a Local Government Area in the inner western suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located about west of Perth's central business district...

     (1935)
  • The Clifton house, Johnston Street, Mosman Park
    Mosman Park, Western Australia
    The Town of Mosman Park is a Local Government Area of Western Australia. It covers an area of approximately 4.3 km² in western metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia and lies about 14 km southwest of the Perth CBD and 5 km from Fremantle.-History:The Buckland Hill Road...

     (1937)
  • Day House, Victoria Avenue, Claremont
    Claremont, Western Australia
    Claremont is a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia on the north bank of the Swan River.-History:Prior to European settlement, the Noongar people used the area as a source of water, for fishing and for catching waterfowl. In 1830, John Butler, a settler, set up an inn at Freshwater Bay to...

     (1939)

  • &Faculty of Arts Building, University of Western Australia
    University of Western Australia
    The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...

     (1962)
  • Born 1895
  • Died 1968
  • Arnold Conrad CMG http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130539b.htm
  • Articled to Edwin Ruck
  • Architecture Working Men's College, Melbourne
    RMIT University
    RMIT University is an Australian public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. It has two branches, referred to as RMIT University in Australia and RMIT International University in Vietnam....

  • Born Clifton Hill
    Clifton Hill, Victoria
    Clifton Hill is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. The border between Clifton Hill and Fitzroy North is Queens Parade and Smith Street. Merri Creek defines the eastern border of Clifton Hill. Its Local Government Area is...

     6 January 1887
  • Died Auchenflower
    Auchenflower, Queensland
    Auchenflower is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia located 2.5 km west of the Brisbane CBD bordering the Brisbane River.-History:Between 1900 and 1962 Auchenflower was served by trams running along Milton Road from Toowong...

     3 February 1979
  • Queensland Department of Public Works (1911)
  • H W Atkinson & C McLay (1912–17)
  • Atkinson & Conrad (1919–26)
  • Atkinson, Powell & Conrad (1926–38)
  • Conrad & Gargett (1938–74)
  • Queensland
  • Inter-War Spanish mission
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Trades Hall, Brisbane
    Brisbane
    Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

  • Craigston, Spring Hill
    Spring Hill, Queensland
    Spring Hill is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 2 km north of the central business district. Parts of Spring Hill can be considered to be extensions of the Brisbane CBD.-Schools:Spring Hill is serviced by a number of schools...

     (1928)
  • Brisbane General Hospital
  • Brisbane General Hospital, nurses' quarters
  • Tristram's soft-drink factory
  • Greek Orthodox Church
  • Courier-Mail Building (1936 with Stephenson & Meldrum)
  • St John's Cathedral
    St John's Cathedral, Brisbane
    St John's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of Brisbane and the metropolitan cathedral of the ecclesiastical province of Queensland, Australia...

    , organ loft, Brisbane (1974)
  • George Cookney
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • Born England
  • NSW Colonial Architect 1825-26
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • Old Colonial Gothick Picturesque
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • La Perouse Memorial
    Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse
    Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.-Early career:...

    , Botany Bay
    Botany Bay
    Botany Bay is a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, a few kilometres south of the Sydney central business district. The Cooks River and the Georges River are the two major tributaries that flow into the bay...

  • Stables, Vaucluse House
    Historic Houses Trust, New South Wales
    The Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales is an Australian-based statutory authority within the Office of Environment and Heritage in the New South Wales Department of Premier and Cabinet....

    , Vaucluse
    Vaucluse, New South Wales
    Vaucluse is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Vaucluse is located north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of Waverley Council and the Municipality of Woollahra....

     (c.1829)
  • William Coote http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030427b.htm
  • Trainee architect under C R Cockerell
    Charles Robert Cockerell
    Charles Robert Cockerell was an English architect, archaeologist, and writer.-Life:Charles Robert Cockerell was educated at Westminster School from 1802. From the age of sixteen, he trained in the architectural practice of his father, Samuel Pepys Cockerell...

  • Trainee civil engineer under C B Vignolles
  • Born London 1822
  • Arrived Australia 1852
  • Died 1898
  • Queensland
  • Old Brisbane Town Hall, Brisbane
    Brisbane
    Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

  • Bill Corker
    Denton Corker Marshall
    Denton Corker Marshall is a major award-winning Australian architecture practice established in Melbourne in 1972. It was founded by architects John Denton, Bill Corker, and Barrie Marshall...

  • Denton Corker Marshall
    Denton Corker Marshall
    Denton Corker Marshall is a major award-winning Australian architecture practice established in Melbourne in 1972. It was founded by architects John Denton, Bill Corker, and Barrie Marshall...

  • Australia and International
  • Melbourne Museum
    Melbourne Museum
    Melbourne Museum is located in the Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, Australia, adjacent the Royal Exhibition Building.It is the largest museum in the Southern Hemisphere, and is a venue of Museum Victoria, which also operates the Immigration Museum and Scienceworks Museum.The museum has seven main...

  • Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
    Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
    The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre is the name given to two adjacent buildings next to the Yarra River in South Wharf, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

  • Bolte Bridge
    Bolte Bridge
    The Bolte Bridge is a large twin Cantilever bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It spans the Yarra River and Victoria Harbour in the Docklands precinct to the west of the Melbourne CBD...

  • Visitors Centre, Stonehenge
    Stonehenge
    Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks...

  • Australian Embassy, Tokyo
  • Australian Embassy, Beijing
  • Governor Phillip Tower & Museum of Sydney
    Governor Phillip Tower
    Governor Phillip Tower, Governor Macquarie Tower and the Museum of Sydney are the main elements of one of the largest developments in the City of Sydney. Completed in 1994, they occupy an elevated site in the Central Business District’s prestigious north-east area...

  • Australian War Memorial
    Australian War Memorial
    The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of all its armed forces and supporting organisations who have died or participated in the wars of the Commonwealth of Australia...

    , Extension
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1996)
  • Peter Corrigan
    Peter Corrigan
    Peter Russell Corrigan was born in 1941, Australia. As an Australian architect and has been involved in the completion of works in stage and set design.-Early Life and Life Achievements:...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (2003)
  • Keith Cottier
  • Born Australia 1938
  • Allen Jack+Cottier Architects Pty Ltd
  • Australia
  • Sydney School
  • Late 20th century modernist
  • Heritage and adaptive reuse
  • Penfolds Magill Estate Winery, Adelaide
    Adelaide
    Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

    , South Australia
    South Australia
    South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

  • Moore Park Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (2001)
  • Philip Cox
    Philip Cox
    Professor Philip Sutton Cox AO is an Australian architect.Professor Cox is the founding partner of COX Architects & Planners, one of the largest architectural practices in Australia....

  • Born Australia 1939
  • Ian McKay & Philip Cox
  • Philip Cox & Partners
  • Philip Cox, Richardson, Taylor & Associates
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

     and Australian Capital Territory
    Australian Capital Territory
    The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

  • Late 20th Century Structuralist
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Late 20th Century Post Modern
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour
  • Sydney Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour
  • Sydney Football Stadium. Moore Park
    Moore Park, New South Wales
    Moore Park is a large area of parkland in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of Centennial Parklands, a collective of three parks being Moore Park, Centennial Park and Queens Park. Centennial Parklands is administered by the Centennial Park &...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (1984)
  • Hugh Ralston Crawford
    Hugh Ralston Crawford
    Hugh Ralston Crawford , practiced both as an engineer and architect in Australia and the United States in the 1st half of the 20th Century.Crawford was born in the United States in 1876, and moved to Queensland, Australia as a child...

  • Born United States 1876-1954)
  • practised both as an engineer and architect in Australia and the United States in the 1st half of the 20th Century.

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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
    • Alexander Dawson
      New South Wales Government Architect
      The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • NSW Colonial Architect
    (1856-62)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Victorian Tudor
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Supreme Court of New South Wales
    Supreme Court of New South Wales
    The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales...

     Registry Office, Elizabeth Street, Sydney
  • Charles D'Ebro
    Charles D'Ebro
    Charles Abraham D'Ebro was a London-born architect who designed many important buildings in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia during the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods...

  • Jenkins, D'Ebro and Grainger
  • Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

  • Victorian Free Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Academic Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Free Style
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Stonnington
    City of Stonnington
    The City of Stonnington is a Local Government Area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It comprises the inner south-eastern suburbs, between 3 and 13 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD...

     (1890)
  • Winfield Building (1891)
  • Richmond Power Station
    Richmond Power Station, Victoria
    Richmond Power Station is a Victorian era coal fired power station which operated on the banks of the Yarra River in Richmond, Victoria, Australia from its construction in 1891 until its closure in 1976. It was one of the first alternating current electricity generation plants in the state...

     (1891)
  • Gollin Building (1902)
  • Scottish House (1908)
  • Bruce Dellit http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130683b.htm
  • Architecture Sydney Technical College
    Sydney Technical College
    The Sydney Technical College was a name used by Australia's oldest technical education institution.It began as the Sydney Mechanics' Institute in 1843...

  • Architecture Lectures University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • Born Darlington
    Darlington, New South Wales
    Darlington is a small, inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Darlington is located about 3 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney and is part of the region of the Inner...

     7 November 1898
  • Died Hornsby
    Hornsby, New South Wales
    * Highest Maximum Temperature: 42 °C* Lowest Maximum Temperature: 4.9 °C* Warmest Month: January* Coolest Month: July* Highest Precipitation: February* Lowest Precipitation: July-Notable residents:...

     21 August 1942
  • Hall & Prentice
  • Spain & Cosh
  • Bruce Dellit
  • Queensland
    Queensland
    Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

     and New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Inter-War Art Deco
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Mediterranean
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Design Team, Brisbane City Hall
    Brisbane City Hall
    Brisbane City Hall, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is the seat of the Brisbane City Council. It is located adjacent to King George Square, where the rectangular City Hall has its main entrance. The City Hall also has frontages and entrances in both Ann Street and Adelaide Street...

  • Aleuria, Fox Valley Road, Wahroonga (1928)
  • Kyle House, Macquarie Place, Sydney (1931)
  • Kinsella's Chapel, Bourke Street, Darlinghurst
  • ANZAC War Memorial
    ANZAC War Memorial
    The ANZAC War Memorial, completed in 1934, is the main commemorative military monument of Sydney, Australia. It was designed by C. Bruce Dellit, with the exterior adorned with monumental figural reliefs and sculptures by Rayner Hoff....

    , Hyde Park, Sydney
    Hyde Park, Sydney
    Hyde Park is a large park in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Hyde Park is on the eastern side of the Sydney central business district. It is the southernmost of a chain of parkland that extends north to the shore of Port Jackson . It is approximately rectangular in shape, being squared at the...

     (1934)
  • Delfin House, O'Connell Street, Sydney
  • John Denton
    Denton Corker Marshall
    Denton Corker Marshall is a major award-winning Australian architecture practice established in Melbourne in 1972. It was founded by architects John Denton, Bill Corker, and Barrie Marshall...

  • Denton Corker Marshall
    Denton Corker Marshall
    Denton Corker Marshall is a major award-winning Australian architecture practice established in Melbourne in 1972. It was founded by architects John Denton, Bill Corker, and Barrie Marshall...

  • Australia and International
  • Melbourne Museum
    Melbourne Museum
    Melbourne Museum is located in the Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, Australia, adjacent the Royal Exhibition Building.It is the largest museum in the Southern Hemisphere, and is a venue of Museum Victoria, which also operates the Immigration Museum and Scienceworks Museum.The museum has seven main...

  • Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
    Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
    The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre is the name given to two adjacent buildings next to the Yarra River in South Wharf, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

  • Bolte Bridge
    Bolte Bridge
    The Bolte Bridge is a large twin Cantilever bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It spans the Yarra River and Victoria Harbour in the Docklands precinct to the west of the Melbourne CBD...

  • Visitors Centre, Stonehenge
    Stonehenge
    Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks...

  • Australian Embassy, Tokyo
  • Australian Embassy, Beijing
  • Governor Phillip Tower & Museum of Sydney
    Governor Phillip Tower
    Governor Phillip Tower, Governor Macquarie Tower and the Museum of Sydney are the main elements of one of the largest developments in the City of Sydney. Completed in 1994, they occupy an elevated site in the Central Business District’s prestigious north-east area...

  • Australian War Memorial
    Australian War Memorial
    The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of all its armed forces and supporting organisations who have died or participated in the wars of the Commonwealth of Australia...

    , Extension
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1996)
  • Robin Dods
  • Architecture
    Edinburgh Architectural Association
  • Born Dunedin 9 June 1868
  • Arrived Australia via Scotland 1879
  • Died Edgecliff
    Edgecliff, New South Wales
    Edgecliff is a small suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Edgecliff is located 4 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra. The postcode is 2027.Edgecliff is surrounded by...

     23 July 1920
  • Hay & Henderson (Edinburgh
    Edinburgh
    Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

    )
  • Sir Aston Webb
    Aston Webb
    Sir Aston Webb, RA, FRIBA was an English architect, active in the late 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century...

     (London)
  • Hall & Dods (Brisbane
    Brisbane
    Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

    )
  • Spain & Cosh (Sydney)
  • Queensland and New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Federation Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Arts and Crafts
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Bungalow
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Georgian Revival
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Webber House, Ann Street, Brisbane
    Brisbane
    Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

     (1905)
  • Archbishop's Chapel, Milton
    Milton, Queensland
    Milton is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia, located approximately west of Brisbane's central business district. The suburb is a mixture of light industry, warehouses, commercial offices, retail and single and multiple occupancy residences...

  • Australian Mercantile Land & Finance building, Brisbane
    Brisbane
    Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

  • St Brigid's Catholic Church, Red Hill
    Red Hill, Queensland
    Red Hill is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia, located 3 km north-west of the Brisbane CBD. The suburb is very hilly and mainly residential, with shops and small businesses located on Musgrave and Waterworks Roads...

     (1914)
  • Fenton, Albert Street, Edgecliff
    Edgecliff
    Edgecliff may refer to:* Edgecliff , historic building* Edgecliff College* Edgecliff Village, Texas* Edgecliff, New South Wales...


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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
    • Julie Eizenberg
  • Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc.
  • Sir Bernard Evans DSO
  • Bernard Evans & Partners
  • Lord Mayor of Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

     (1961–63)
  • Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

     and Western Australia
    Western Australia
    Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

  • Inter-War Old English
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Functionalist
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Post-War International
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Toorak Village, Toorak Road, Toorak
    Toorak, Victoria
    Toorak is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district located on a rise on the south side of a bend in the Yarra River. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington...

     (1936)
  • London Court, Hay Street, Perth
    Perth, Western Australia
    Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

     (1937)
  • Former John Batman Motor Inn, 69 Queens Road, South Melbourne
    South Melbourne, Victoria
    South Melbourne is an inner city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Port Phillip and Melbourne...

  • The Stamford Hotel, Rowville (1959)
  • 505 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
    St Kilda Road, Melbourne
    St Kilda Road is a street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is part of the locality of Melbourne which has the postcode of 3004 and along with Swanston Street forms a major spine of the city....

     (1960)
  • CRA House, 95 Collins Street, Melbourne
    Collins Street, Melbourne
    Collins Street is a major street in the Melbourne central business district and runs approximately east to west.It is notable as Melbourne's traditional main street and best known street, is often regarded as Australia's premier street, with some of the country's finest Victorian era buildings.The...

     (1960)
  • Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

  • Neil Everist
  • McGlashan & Everist
  • Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....


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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
    • Ted Farmer
      New South Wales Government Architect
      The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • NSW Government Architect
    (1958-73)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (1972)
  • John Flower (architect)
  • Late 20th Century Perth Regional
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • House, 632 Leake Street, Peppermint Grove
  • Joseph Fowell
  • Articled to F E Banham (Beccles, Suffolk)
  • Completed training with Travers & Mileham (London)
  • Born Albany
    Albany, Western Australia
    Albany is a port city in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, some 418 km SE of Perth, the state capital. As of 2009, Albany's population was estimated at 33,600, making it the 6th-largest city in the state....

     2 August 1891
  • Returned to Australia 1919
  • Died Bayview
    Bayview, New South Wales
    Bayview is a suburb in northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bayview is located 31 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Pittwater Council and is part of the Northern Beaches region....

     3 July 1970
  • Gibson, Skipworth & Gordon (London)
  • Atkinson & Alexander (London)
  • Leslie Wilkinson
  • Henry Budden
    Henry Budden
    Henry [Harry] Ebenezer Budden CBE was a Sulman Award winning Australian architect active in the first 40 years of the 20th century. His work encompassed the styles of the Federation Arts and Crafts and Bungalow through to the Inter-War Stripped Classical and Art Deco...

  • Fowell and McConnel (1928–39)
  • Fowell and Mansfield (1939–46)
  • Fowell, Mansfield & Maclurcan (1946–62)
  • Fowell, Mansfield, Jarvis & Maclurcan (1962–70)
  • Inter-War Art Deco
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Romanesque
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Post-War Ecclesiastical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • British Medical Association House, 135-137 Macquarie Street, Sydney
    Macquarie Street, Sydney
    Macquarie Street is the easternmost street of Sydney's central business district. Macquarie Street extends from Hyde Park at its southern end to the Sydney Opera House at its north.-Description:...

     (1928)
  • St Anne's Shrine, Blair & Mitchell Streets, North Bondi (nave 1935, sanctuary 1964)
  • St Peter's, Church of England, Proston, Queensland
    Proston, Queensland
    Proston is a small town in the south east of the Australian state of Queensland. The town is located 280 kilometres north west of the state capital, Brisbane and 50 km northwest of the South Burnett regions commercial centre, Kingaroy...

     (1937)
  • St Mary's, North Sydney
    North Sydney, New South Wales
    North Sydney is a suburb and commercial district on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. North Sydney is located 3 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of North Sydney...

     (1939)
  • St Canisus College, Pymble (1939)
  • St Joseph's, Neutral Bay
    Neutral Bay, New South Wales
    Neutral Bay is a harbourside suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Neutral Bay is located 5 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council....

     (1941)
  • Orient Line Building, 2-6 Spring Street, Sydney (1943)
  • St Augustine's Church, Yass
    Yass, New South Wales
    Yass is a town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Yass Valley Shire. The name appears to have been derived from an Aboriginal word, "Yarrh" , said to mean 'running water'....

     (1956)
  • P&O, 565 Hunter Street, Sydney (1962)
  • Gladesville Bridge
    Gladesville Bridge
    Gladesville Bridge is an arch bridge near Gladesville that spans the Parramatta River, west of central Sydney, Australia. It links the suburbs of Huntleys Point and Drummoyne. It is a few kilometres upstream of the more famous Sydney Harbour Bridge and is part of Victoria Road...

    , Parramatta River
    Parramatta River
    The Parramatta River is a waterway in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Parramatta River is the main tributary of Sydney Harbour, a branch of Port Jackson, along with the smaller Lane Cove and Duck Rivers....

     (1965)
  • Church of St Rose, Rose Street, Collaroy Plateau (1967)
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1962)

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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
    • Phillip Gibbs
      Phillip Gibbs
      Phillip Gibbs is an Australian architect. In 1980 he was awarded the third place prize at the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition for work on his Australian timber house....

  • Born 1940
  • Robin Gibson
  • Robin Gibson and Partners
  • Queensland
  • Late 20th Century International
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Queensland Performing Arts Centre
    Queensland Performing Arts Centre
    The Queensland Performing Arts Centre is part of the Queensland Cultural Centre and is located on the corner of Melbourne Street and Grey Street in Brisbane's South Bank precinct....

    , Brisbane
    Brisbane
    Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

     (1984)
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1989)
  • F Glynn Gilling
  • Born
  • Arrived Australia 1919
  • Died
  • Joseland Gilling
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Inter-War Mediterranean
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Old English
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • 1 Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill
    Bellevue Hill, New South Wales
    Bellevue Hill is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bellevue Hill is an affluent suburb, located 5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra....

  • Audley, Bangalla Road, Warrawee (1935)
  • Cahors, 117 Nacleay Street, Potts Point (1940)
  • Ron Gilling OBE
  • Architecture
    University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • Born Edinburgh, Scotland 17 October 1917
  • Arrived Australia 1919
  • Died Sydney 2005
  • Joseland Gilling
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Late 20th Century Brutalist
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Wollongong Teacher's College, Wollongong (1966)
  • QANTAS Building, Lang and Jamieson Streets, Sydney (1982)
  • Masonic Centre, Castlereagh and Goulburn Streets, Sydney (1974)
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1977)
  • Romaldo Giurgola
    Romaldo Giurgola
    Romaldo Giurgola AO is an Italian-American-Australian academic architect, professor, and author. Giurgola was born in Galatina, in the south of Italy in 1920. After service in the Italian armed forces during World War II, he was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome...

  • University of Rome La Sapienza
    University of Rome La Sapienza
    The Sapienza University of Rome, officially Sapienza – Università di Roma, formerly known as Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a coeducational, autonomous state university in Rome, Italy...

  • Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

  • Born Rome 1920
  • Arrived Australia 1980
  • Mitchell/Giurgola Architects
  • Mitchell/Giurgola & Thorp
  • USA and Australia
  • Late 20th Century International
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • United Fund Headquarters Building, Philadelphia (1971)
  • Columbus East High School, Columbus
    Columbus, Indiana
    Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States. The population was 44,061 at the 2010 census, and the current mayor is Fred Armstrong. Located approximately 40 miles south of Indianapolis, on the east fork of the White River, it is the state's 20th largest...

     (1972)
  • Lang Music Building, Swarthmore College, Swathmore
    Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
    Swarthmore is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Swarthmore was originally named Westdale in honor of noted painter Benjamin West, who was one of the early residents of the town. The name was changed to Swarthmore after the establishment of Swarthmore College...

     (1973)
  • Tredyffrin Public Library, Strafford
    Strafford, Pennsylvania
    Strafford is an unincorporated community in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, located partly in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, and partly in Radnor Township, Delaware County. It is served by its own stop on the SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Line regional rail train. It is also...

     (1976)
  • Sherman Fairchild Center Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

     (1977)
  • Parliament House, Canberra
    Parliament House, Canberra
    Parliament House is the meeting facility of the Parliament of Australia located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. The building was designed by Mitchell/Giurgola Architects and opened on 1988 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia...

     (1988)
  • INA Tower, Philadelphia
  • Swissotel, Boston (1985)
  • Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasília
    Brasília
    Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...

  • Penn Mutual Tower, Philadelphia
  • AIA Gold Medal
    AIA Gold Medal
    The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture."...

     (1982)
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1988)
  • William Godfrey
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1967)
  • David Godsell
  • Trainee Engineer Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works
  • Apprenticed to Marcus Martin
  • Architecture Melbourne Technical College
    RMIT University
    RMIT University is an Australian public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. It has two branches, referred to as RMIT University in Australia and RMIT International University in Vietnam....

  • Born Portsmouth, England 4 October 1930
  • Australian parents returned in 1943
  • Died Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

     1986
  • Guilford Bell (1953–60)
  • Private Practice (1960–86)
  • Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

  • Lat 20th Century Organic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Godsell House, 491 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris
    Beaumaris, Victoria
    Beaumaris is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Beaumaris had a population of 12,441....

     (1960)
  • Kohry Units, Prahran Grove, Elsternwick (1960)
  • Sussems House, Lynette Avenue, Beaumaris (1962)
  • Chapman House, cnr Regent & Hampton Streets, Brighton
    Brighton, Victoria
    Brighton is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Brighton had a population of 20,651...

     (1963)
  • Kennedy House, 13 Pleasant View Crescent Glen Waverley (1963)
  • Newman House, Natal Avenue, Edithvale (1968)
  • Post Office, Mordialloc (1970)
  • Post Office, Bentleigh (1972)
  • Olive Phillips Kindergarten & Health Centre, Bodley Street Beaumaris
  • Francis Greenway
    Francis Greenway
    -References:* *...

  • Born Bristol
    Bristol
    Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

     1777
  • Arrived Sydney 1814
  • Died Maitland
    Maitland, New South Wales
    Maitland is a city in the Lower Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia and the seat of Maitland City Council, situated on the Hunter River approximately by road north of Sydney and north-west of Newcastle...

     1837
  • NSW Colonial Architect 1816-22
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • Bristol
    Bristol
    Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

     and New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Old Colonial Georgian
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Old Colonial Regency
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Old Colonial Gothick Picturesque
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • First Macquarie Lighthouse
    Macquarie Lighthouse
    The Macquarie Lighthouse, also known as South Head Upper Light, was the first, and is the longest serving, lighthouse site in Australia. It is located on Dunbar Head, Vaucluse near the entrance to Sydney Harbour. There has been a navigational aid in this vicinity since 1791 and a lighthouse near...

    , Vaucluse
    Vaucluse, New South Wales
    Vaucluse is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Vaucluse is located north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of Waverley Council and the Municipality of Woollahra....

  • Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
    Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
    The Hyde Park Barracks is an internationally significant, impressive brick building and compound designed by convict architect Francis Greenway between 1818–19; originally built at the head of Macquarie Street to house convict men and boys....

  • St. James Church, Sydney
    St. James Church, Sydney
    St James' Church is an Anglican church in King Street in Sydney, Australia. Consecrated on 11 February 1824, the church was designed by the transported convict architect Francis Greenway during the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie, and is part of the historical precinct of Macquarie Street...

  • Government House Stables, Sydney
    Sydney Conservatorium of Music
    The Sydney Conservatorium of Music is one of the oldest and most prestigious music schools in Australia...

  • Carlyle Greenwell
    Carlyle Greenwell
    Carlyle Greenwell was an Australian architect whose houses, designed in the first half of the 20th century, are now heritage listed and a philanthropist whose bequest to the University of Sydney funds research in Anthropology and Archaeology.-Early life:Greenwell was born in Windsor and was...

  • Architecture Sydney Technical College
    Sydney Technical College
    The Sydney Technical College was a name used by Australia's oldest technical education institution.It began as the Sydney Mechanics' Institute in 1843...

  • Architecture Lectures Sydney University
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • B.Sc.(Arch) Pennsylvania University
    University of Pennsylvania
    The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

  • Born Windsor
    Windsor, New South Wales
    Windsor is a town in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Windsor is located in the local government area of the City of Hawkesbury. It sits on the Hawkesbury River, on the north-western outskirts of the Sydney metropolitan area. At the 2006 census, Windsor had a population of...

     16 March 1884
  • Died Collaroy 7 February 1961
  • Kent Budden & Greenwell
  • Budden & Greenwell
  • Greenwell & Shirley
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Federation Arts and Crafts
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Bungalow
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter War Mediterranean
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Killara Congregational Church
    Congregational Union of Australia
    The Congregational Union of Australia was a Congregational denomination in Australia.Two hundred and sixty of its congregations joined the Uniting Church in Australia, which was formed in 1977 by the union of congregations of the Congregational Union, Methodist Church of Australasia, and...

    , (Uniting Church)
  • Yeulba, Strathfield
  • Terhyn Worthle, Killara
  • Norman House, Vaucluse
    Vaucluse, New South Wales
    Vaucluse is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Vaucluse is located north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of Waverley Council and the Municipality of Woollahra....

  • Harrison House (now Weis Restaurant), Toowoomba
  • Mothers and Wives Memorial to Soldiers, Woolloomooloo
  • Roy Grounds
    Roy Grounds
    Sir Roy Burman Grounds , wasone of Australia's leading architects of the modern movement.-Biography:Born in Melbourne, Grounds was educated at Scotch College and then Melbourne University and worked for the architectural firm of Blackett, Forster and Craig...

  • Born 1905
  • Died 1981
  • Grounds, Romberg & Boyd
  • Australia
  • Post-War Melbourne Regional
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Post-War International
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Late 20th Century Structuralist
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Australian Academy of Science
    Australian Academy of Science
    The Australian Academy of Science was founded in 1954 by a group of distinguished Australians, including Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London. The first president was Sir Mark Oliphant. The Academy is modelled after the Royal Society and operates under a Royal Charter; as such it is...

    , Canberra
    Canberra
    Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

     (1959) Sir John Sulman Medal
    Sir John Sulman Medal
    The Sir John Sulman Medal is a New South Wales architectural prize presented by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and was first awarded in 1932....

  • National Gallery of Victoria
    National Gallery of Victoria
    The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (1968)
  • Neville Gruzman
    Neville Gruzman
    Neville Gruzman, AM was an Australian architect, mayor of Woollahra, writer and architectural activist...

  • Born 1925
  • Died 2005
  • Regionalism, Sydney School, Organic Modernism
  • Hill's House (1966)
  • Holland House (1962)


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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
  • Born England
  • Arrived Australia 1827
  • Died en-route to London 1845
  • NSW Colonial Architect 1832-34
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • Berrima Gaol
    Berrima, New South Wales
    Berrima is an historic village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. The village, once a major town, is located on the Old Hume Highway between Canberra and Sydney. It was previously known officially as the Town of Berrima...

  • Standish Harris
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

     http://www.govarch.dpws.nsw.gov.au/history/greenway_lewis.htm
  • Born England
  • NSW Colonial Architect 1822-24
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • Eric Heath
    Eric Heath
    Eric Walmsley Heath is a New Zealand artist, illustrator and cartoonist.Served New Zealand in the Second World War; Posted with the RNZAF No.6 Air Rescue Catalina Squadron, to Halavo Bay Flying Base on the island of Florida, north of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.He was the editorial cartoonist for...

  • Australia
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Inter-War Spanish Mission
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Plaza Theatre George Street, Sydney
    George Street, Sydney
    George Street is one of Sydney's most notable city streets. There are more high rise buildings and more ASX 100 companies located here than anywhere else in Australia, and is well known for being busy around-the-clock...

     http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_01_2.cfm?itemid=2450596
  • Anketell Henderson http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090265b.htm
  • Articled to Reed & Barnes
  • Engineering University of Melbourne
    University of Melbourne
    The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

  • Born Cork
    Cork (city)
    Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. Cork has a population of 119,418, while the addition of the suburban...

     3 March 1853
  • Arrived Australia 1863
  • Died Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

     15 November 1922
  • Reed, Henderson & Smart (1883–90)
  • Anketell Henderson (1890–1906)
  • Kingsley Henderson CMG http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090265b.htm
  • Articled to Anketell Henderson
  • Combined Architecture course University of Melbourne
    University of Melbourne
    The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

     and Melbourne Technical College
    RMIT University
    RMIT University is an Australian public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. It has two branches, referred to as RMIT University in Australia and RMIT International University in Vietnam....

  • Born Brighton, Victoria
    Brighton, Victoria
    Brighton is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Brighton had a population of 20,651...

     15 December 1883
  • Died Portsea
    Portsea
    Portsea is an area of the English city of Portsmouth, located on Portsea Island, within the ceremonial county of Hampshire.The area was originally known as the Common and lay between the town of Portsmouth and the nearby Dockyard. The Common started to be developed at the end of the seventeenth...

     6 April 1942
  • Anketell and K Henderson (1906–20)
  • Anketell and K Henderson, Alsop & Martin (1920–24)
  • A & K Henderson (1924–42)

  • Partners
    • John Freeman
    • R Jack Wilson
    • R Cedric Staughton
    • W H Lacey
    • L C Pillar
    • Australia and New Zealand
  • Inter-War Commercial Palazzo
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Alcaston House, Spring Street, Melbourne
    Spring Street, Melbourne
    Spring Street is a major street in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs roughly north-south, and is the easternmost street in the Hoddle Grid. The street travels from Flinders Street in the south, to La Trobe Street and the Carlton Gardens in the north...

     (1930)
  • Lyric House, Collins Street, Melbourne
    Collins Street, Melbourne
    Collins Street is a major street in the Melbourne central business district and runs approximately east to west.It is notable as Melbourne's traditional main street and best known street, is often regarded as Australia's premier street, with some of the country's finest Victorian era buildings.The...

     (1931) RVIA Victorian Street Architecture Medal
  • Shell Corner, William Street, Melbourne
    William Street, Melbourne
    William Street is a major street in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs roughly north-south from Flinders Street to Victoria Street, and is located in the western half of the Hoddle Grid....

     (1935) RVIA Victorian Street Architecture Medal
  • Kerry Hill
    Kerry Hill
    Kerry Hill is an architect who has specialised in hotel design in tropical Asia.He studied at Perth Technical College and the University of Western Australia graduating in 1968. He worked for Howlett & Bailey in Perth from 1969 to 1971...

  • Kerry Hill Architects
  • Ogilvie House, Sunshine Beach, Queensland (2003) Robin Boyd Award
    Robin Boyd Award
    The Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture is an Australian architectural prize presented by the Australian Institute of Architects since 1981....

  • RAIA Gold Medal (2006)
  • John Hipwell
    John Hipwell (architect)
    John Hipwell was an Australian architect who practiced and designed mainly in Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia. He worked with Fritz Janeba and was the longest surviving member of Hipwell, Weight and Mason architects. He also served in Papua New Guinea as Commanding Officer of radar unit 334 with...

  • Born 30/11/1920
  • Death 16/06/2007
  • Hipwell,Weight & Mason
  • Hipwell, Weight & Ross
  • Department of Works
  • Hipwell House Research Road Warrandyte
  • Lieutenant General Sir Talbot Hobbs KCMG KCB
    Talbot Hobbs
    Lieutenant General Sir Joseph John Talbot Hobbs KCB, KCMG, VD was an Australian architect and First World War general.-Early life:...

  • Born London 1864
  • Arrived Australia 1886
  • Died en-route to France 1938
  • Hobbs, Smith & Forbes

  • Partners
    • Athol Hobbs (son)
    • Alec Winning
    • Western Australia
  • Federation Queen Anne
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Bungalow
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Gothic/Collegiate Tudor
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Weld Club
    Weld Club
    The Weld Club is a gentlemen's club in Perth, Western Australia, founded in 1871 by members of the establishment of Perth. It was named after the then Governor of Western Australia, Sir Frederick Weld with the club building designed by Talbot Hobbs and constructed in 1892.-External links:*...

    , Barrack Street, Perth
    Perth, Western Australia
    Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

     (1892)
  • War Memorial, Kings Park
    Kings Park, Western Australia
    Kings Park is a park located on the western edge of Perth, Western Australia central business district. The park is a mixture of grassed parkland, botanical gardens and natural bushland on Mount Eliza with two thirds of the grounds conserved as native bushland. With panoramic views of the Swan...

    , Perth
    Perth, Western Australia
    Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

     (1929)
  • John Horbury Hunt
    John Horbury Hunt
    John Horbury Hunt was a Canadian-born architect who worked in Sydney, Australia and rural New South Wales from 1863.-Life and career:...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040505b.htm
  • Born St John October 1838
  • Arrived Australia January 1863
  • Died Darlinghurst 27 December 1904
  • Charles F Sleeper
  • Edward Clarke Cabot
  • Edmund Blacket (1863–69)
  • John Horbury Hunt (1869–1904)
  • Boston
    Boston
    Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

     and New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Victorian Academic Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Free Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Arts & Crafts
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • St Peter's Anglican Cathedral, Armidale
    Armidale, New South Wales
    Armidale is a city in the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia. Armidale Dumaresq Shire had a population of 19,485 people according to the 2006 census. It is the administrative centre for the Northern Tablelands region...

     (1871)
  • St Matthias's Church, Denman
    Denman, New South Wales
    Denman is a small rural town in New South Wales, Australia, in Muswellbrook Shire. The town is located on the Golden Highway in the Upper Hunter Valley region, about 250 km north of Sydney...

     (1871)
  • St John's, Branxton
    Branxton, New South Wales
    Branxton is a town in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia. Branxton is north of Sydney via the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway and New England Highway.Branxton is located mostly in Cessnock City Council, but part of it is in Singleton Shire...

     (1873)
  • Christ Church Anglican Cathedral, Grafton
    Grafton, New South Wales
    The city of Grafton is the commercial hub of the Clarence River Valley. Established in 1851, Grafton features many historic buildings and tree-lined streets. Located approximately 630 kilometres north of Sydney and 340 km south of Brisbane, Grafton and the Clarence Valley can be reached...

     (1880)
  • Tivoli
    Kambala Girls School
    Kambala is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located on one campus in Rose Bay, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1887, Kambala has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 950 students from Pre-school...

    , Rose Bay
    Rose Bay, New South Wales
    Rose Bay is a harbourside, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Rose Bay is located 7 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of Waverley Municipal Council and Woollahra Council .Rose Bay has views of both the Sydney...

     (1881)
  • St Luke's Osborne Memorial Church, Dapto
    Dapto, New South Wales
    Dapto is a southern suburb of Wollongong in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia, located on the western side of Lake Illawarra and covering an area 7.15 square kilometres in size...

     (1882)
  • Cloncorrick, Darling Point
    Darling Point, New South Wales
    Darling Point is a harbourside, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Darling Point is located 4 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Woollahra Council....

     (1884)
  • Booloominbah
    Booloominbah
    Booloominbah is a late Victorian mansion situated at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.It was designed for Frederick Robert White in about 1882 by John Horbury Hunt and built by local building contractors William Seabrook and John Brown in 1888. The White family...

    , Armidale (1888)
  • Camelot, Narellan
    Narellan, New South Wales
    Narellan is a suburb of the Macarthur Region of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia in Camden Council.-History:The area now known as Narellan was probably originally home to the Tharawal people, based in the Illawarra region, although the Western Sydney-based Darug people and the...

     (1888)
  • Pibrac, Warrawee (1888)
  • Tudor House
    Tudor House School
    Tudor house School, is a private, day and boarding, preparatory school for boys, located in Moss Vale, New South Wales, Australia.The school is Australia's only preparatory boarding school, marketing itself as "a school that understands boys and where the joy of boyhood experiences is...

    , Moss Vale (1891).
  • Convent of the Sacred Heart, Rose Bay
    Kincoppal-Rose Bay, School of the Sacred Heart, Sydney
    Kincoppal-Rose Bay, School of the Sacred Heart , is a private, Roman Catholic, day and boarding school predominantly for girls, located in Rose Bay, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

     (1896)
  • Trevenna
    Trevenna
    Trevenna is the residence of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England, in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. The house was built in 1892 and is located off Trevenna Road on the western side of the main campus in Armidale...

    , Armidale (1898)
  • Highlands, Wahroonga (1893)

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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
  • Leighton Irwin http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090438b.htm
  • 9 November 1892 (Eastwood, Adelaide, South Australia)
  • 4 August 1962 (Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria)
  • Woods, Bagot, Laybourne-Smith & Irwin
    Woods Bagot
    Woods Bagot is a global design studio specialising in the design and planning of facilities across three key sectors: education and science, lifestyle, and workplace....

  • Inter-war Functionalist
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, Victoria
  • Iwan Iwanoff
    Iwan Iwanoff
    Iwan Iwanoff , also known as Iwan Nickolow and Iwan Nickoloff Iwanoff, was born in Küsstendil , Bulgaria, on 2 July 1919 and died on 7 October 1986 in Perth, Western Australia. Iwan Iwanoff studied architecture in Europe before arriving in Perth to work as an architect...

     http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170582b.htm
  • 2 July, 1919 (Küsstendil ((Kusestendil), Bulgaria)
  • 2 March 1950 (Fremantle, Western Australia)
  • 7 October 1986 (Perth, Western Australia)
  • Krantz and Sheldon
  • Studio of Iwan Iwanoff
  • Late 20th Century Brutalist architecture
    Brutalist architecture
    Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture which flourished from the 1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the modernist architectural movement.-The term "brutalism":...


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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
    • Daryl Jackson
      Daryl Jackson
      Daryl Sanders Jackson AO is an Australian architect, and the owner of an international architecture firm, Jackson Architecture...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (1987)
  • Harry Jefferis http://www.architecture.com.au/i-cms_file?page=13453/WH_Jefferis_for_AIA_WA.pdf
  • Articled Harry Kent
  • Associate Royal Institute of British Architects
    Royal Institute of British Architects
    The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally.-History:...

  • Born Adelaide, South Australia 1867
  • Died Albany, Western Australia
    Albany, Western Australia
    Albany is a port city in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, some 418 km SE of Perth, the state capital. As of 2009, Albany's population was estimated at 33,600, making it the 6th-largest city in the state....

     1947
  • Harry Kent (Sydney)
  • Potts Sulman and Hennings (London)
  • Thomas Edward Collcutt
    Thomas Edward Collcutt
    Thomas Edward Collcutt was an English architect in the Victorian era who designed several important buildings in London.-Biography:...

     (London)
  • Jefferis Henderson (Perth)
  • Harry Jefferis
  • Western Australia
    Western Australia
    Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

  • Richard Roach Jewell
    Richard Roach Jewell
    Richard Roach Jewell was an architect who designed many of the important public buildings in Perth during the latter half of the nineteenth century....

  • Born Devon
    Devon
    Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...

     1810
  • Arrived Australia 1852
  • Died Perth
    Perth, Western Australia
    Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

     1891
  • Colonial Architect and Clerk of Works
  • Western Australia
  • Perth Gaol
    Perth Gaol
    The Perth Gaol was a gaol built in Perth, Western Australia between 1854 and 1856 to house convicts and other prisoners. It operated until March 1888 when the last prisoner was transferred to Fremantle Prison...

     (1854)
  • Government House, Perth
    Government House, Perth
    Government House in Perth is the official residence of the governor of Western Australia and was built between 1859 and 1864. The buildings and gardens are listed on the Western Australian Register of Heritage Places and are open to the public from time to time.-Description:The building is a two...

     (1859)
  • Barracks Arch (1863)
  • Perth Town Hall
    Perth Town Hall
    The Perth Town Hall, situated on the corner of Hay and Barrack streets, is the only convict-built town hall in Australia.Designed by Richard Roach Jewell and James Manning in the Victorian Free Gothic style, the hall was built by convicts and free men between 1868 and 1870...

     (1868)
  • Arthur Ebden Johnson
  • Born 1821
  • Arrived Australia 1852
  • Died 1895
  • Public Works Department
  • Smith & Johnson
  • Church of England Grammar School (1858)
  • Melbourne General Post Office (1867)
  • Melbourne Law Courts (1882)
  • Chris Johnson
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • NSW Government Architect
    (1995-2005)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Prof Peter Johnson AC http://www.archmedia.com.au/aa/aaissue.php?issueid=200307&article=14&typeon=3
  • Architecture University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • Died 2003
  • McConnel Smith and Johnson
  • Dean of Architecture, University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

     and Australian Capital Territory
    Australian Capital Territory
    The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

  • Kindersley House, Bligh Street, Sydney
  • Water Board Building Bathurst Street, Sydney (1962)
  • Johnson House, Chatswood (1963) Wilkinson Award
    Wilkinson Award
    The Wilkinson Award is an Australian architectural prize presented by the Australian Institute of Architects and was first awarded in 1961....

  • Commonwealth State Law Courts, Queens Square, Sydney 1967.
  • Benjamin Offices, Belconnen
    Belconnen
    Belconnen is a district of Canberra, the capital city of Australia, comprising 25 suburbs with 29,900 dwellings housing 82,247 people of the 311,518 people in the Australian Capital Territory ....

     (1981)
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1985)
  • Herbert Harrold Jory http://www.adelcathparish.org/History/architecture.htm
  • Woods, Bagot, Jory
    Woods Bagot
    Woods Bagot is a global design studio specialising in the design and planning of facilities across three key sectors: education and science, lifestyle, and workplace....

  • Howard Joseland
    Howard Joseland
    Howard Joseland was an English architect who migrated to Australia and pursued a successful and influential career there.-Early life:...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090522b.htm
  • Born Worcestershire
    Worcestershire
    Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...

     14 January 1860
  • Arrived Australia via New Zealand 1888
  • Died Darlinghurst 20 July 1930
  • Haddon Bros (Hereford
    Hereford
    Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, southwest of Worcester, and northwest of Gloucester...

    )
  • George Trollope & Sons (London)
  • Joseland & Vernon (1903–14)
  • Howard Joseland (1914–19)
  • Joseland & Gilling (1919–23)
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Westholme, 1 Water Street, Wahroonga (1894)
  • Redleaf, Wahroonga (1899) Restoration (1996) RAIA Lachlan Macqaurie Award
    Royal Australian Institute of Architects
    The Australian Institute of Architects is a professional body for architects in Australia. Until August 2008, the Institute traded as the "Royal Australian Institute of Architects", which remains its official name....

  • Craignairn, 37 Burns Road, Wahroonga, (1909)
  • National Building, Pitt Street, Sydney (1920)
  • Tobacco Company Administration Building, 50 Todman Avenue, Kensington
    Kensington
    Kensington is a district of west and central London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. An affluent and densely-populated area, its commercial heart is Kensington High Street, and it contains the well-known museum district of South Kensington.To the north, Kensington is...

     (1926)

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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
    • Peter Kaad
  • Born Fiji
    Fiji
    Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

     28 February 1897
  • Ross & Rowe
  • Hall & Prentice
  • Commonwealth Works Department
  • Lipson & Kaad
  • Inter-War Functionalist
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Design Team, Brisbane City Hall
    Brisbane City Hall
    Brisbane City Hall, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is the seat of the Brisbane City Council. It is located adjacent to King George Square, where the rectangular City Hall has its main entrance. The City Hall also has frontages and entrances in both Ann Street and Adelaide Street...

  • Rural Bank, Martin Place, Sydney
    Martin Place, Sydney
    Martin Place, formerly known as Moore Street, is a pedestrian mall in the central business district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Home to the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Macquarie Bank and other corporations, Martin Place is synonymous with corporate...

     (1935 - demolished 1983)
  • Hastigs Deering Motors (now City Ford), Woolloomooloo
    Woolloomooloo, New South Wales
    Woolloomooloo is a harbourside, inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woolloomooloo is located 1.5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Sydney. The suburb is located in a low-lying, former...

     (1938)
  • Packard Showroom, East Sydney
    East Sydney, New South Wales
    East Sydney is a small inner-city locality in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is situated immediately east of the Sydney central business district, adjacent to Hyde Park....

     (1938)
  • Nonda Katsalidis
    Nonda Katsalidis
    Nonda Katsalidis is an Australian architect.He is currently a practicing director of architecture firm Fender Katsalidis Architects in partnership with Karl Fender.-Life:Katsalidis migrated to Melbourne, Australia as a 5 year old...

  • Tom Kovac
  • Ian Potter Museum of Art (Victorian Architecture Medal, Melbourne Prize and William Wardell Award 1999
  • Eureka Tower
    Eureka Tower
    Eureka Tower is a skyscraper located in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Construction began in August 2002 and the exterior completed on 1 June 2006. The plaza was finished in June 2006 and the building was officially opened on 11 October 2006...

  • Lindsay Kelly
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • NSW Government Architect
    (1988-95)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • F L Klingender
  • Hank Koning
  • Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc.
  • Chris Kringas
  • 1937–1975
  • Edwards Madigan Tozillo Briggs
  • High Court of Australia
    High Court of Australia
    The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the Parliament of Australia and the parliaments of the States, and...

     - Principal Designer & Design Team leader, Warringah Civic Centre - Designer, National Gallery of Australia
    National Gallery of Australia
    The National Gallery of Australia is the national art gallery of Australia, holding more than 120,000 works of art. It was established in 1967 by the Australian government as a national public art gallery.- Establishment :...

     - Team member, Dee Why Library - Architect,
  • George Kringas
  • George Kringas Pty Ltd, Kringas & Jahn, Stephenson & Turner
  • Queen Victoria Building
    Queen Victoria Building
    The Queen Victoria Building, or QVB, is a late nineteenth century building by the architect George McRae in the central business district of Sydney, Australia. The Romanesque Revival building is 30 metres wide by 190 metres long, and fills a city block, bounded by George, Market, York and Druitt...

     Redevelopment - Design Leader, Competition Winner - Walsh Bay Redevelopment by Ipoh Gardens
  • Simon Kringas
  • Kringas Architects, Canberra www.kringas.com
  • Reconciliation Place
    Reconciliation Place
    Reconciliation Place is an urban landscape design in the Parliamentary Triangle Canberra, Australia, commenced in 2001 as a monument to reconciliation between Australia’s Indigenous people and settler population....

     - National Competition Winner 2001, Federation Place - National Competition Winner 2002, Jenkins Farmhouse - RAIA Canberra Medallion - 1999, Kingston
    Kingston, Australian Capital Territory
    Kingston is the oldest and most densely populated suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The suburb is named after Charles Cameron Kingston, the former Premier of South Australia and minister in the first Australian Commonwealth Government. It is adjacent to the suburbs of...

     Foreshore - National Competition Commendation, RAIA Presidents Medal ACT - 2004

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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
    • J W H Lake
  • Waterhouse & Lake (1908-??)
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • William Laurie
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1966)
  • Robert Lawson
    Robert Lawson (architect)
    Robert Arthur Lawson was one of New Zealand's pre-eminent 19th century architects. It has been said he did more than any other designer to shape the face of the Victorian era architecture of the city of Dunedin...

  • Born 1833 Scotland
  • Died 1902 New Zealand
  • New Zealand
  • Melbourne 1854-1862 and 1890–1900
  • Victorian Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Earlsbrae Hall, Essendon, Victoria
    Essendon, Victoria
    Essendon is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley...

     (1890); now known as Lowther Hall, it forms part of an Anglican Grammar School.
  • Louis Laybourne Smith
    Louis Laybourne Smith
    Louis Laybourne Smith was an architect and educator in South Australia. Born in the Adelaide inner-southern suburb of Unley, he became interested in engineering and architecture while in the goldfields of Western Australia and later studied mechanical engineering at the School of Mines, serving...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110675b.htm
  • Born 1880 Unley, South Australia
    Unley, South Australia
    Unley is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The relatively wealthy area lies within the City of Unley. The suburb is the home of the Sturt Football Club, an SANFL team...

  • Died 1965 Adelaide, South Australia
  • School of Mines, South Australia
  • Woods, Bagot, Jory & Laybourne Smith
    Woods Bagot
    Woods Bagot is a global design studio specialising in the design and planning of facilities across three key sectors: education and science, lifestyle, and workplace....

  • National War Memorial, Adelaide
    National War Memorial (South Australia)
    The National War Memorial is a monument in the South Australian capital of Adelaide, commemorating those who served in the First World War. Opened in 1931, the memorial is located on the corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, in the heart of the central business district and adjacent to the...

  • Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park
    Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park
    The Repatriation General Hospital at Daw Park, South Australia , also commonly referred to as "The Repat" or just "Repat", is one of a number of Repatriation General Hospitals set up by the Commonwealth Government around the time of World War II to cater for returned serviceman...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (1961)
  • William T. Leighton
    William T. Leighton
    William Thomas Leighton was a Western Australian architect, well known for his Art Deco and Inter-War Functionalist style of civic, commercial and domestic buildings....

  • Western Australia
  • Art-Deco
  • Former State Theatre (Astor Cinema)
    Astor Cinema
    Astor Cinema is located at 659 Beaufort Street, Mount Lawley, Western Australia. It comprises a single, two and three-storey masonry Inter-war Art Deco style theatre and retail building.-History:...

    , Mount Lawley
    Mount Lawley, Western Australia
    Mount Lawley is an inner suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Most of the suburb lies within the Local Government Area of the City of Stirling and small portions are in the City of Vincent and City of Bayswater...

  • Former Como Theatre (Cygnet Cinema), Como
    Como, Western Australia
    Como is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of South Perth. The suburb has a population of 12,423. Canning Highway divides the suburb.-History:...

  • Piccadilly Theatre and Arcade, Perth
  • Windsor Theatre, Nedlands
    Nedlands, Western Australia
    The City of Nedlands is a Local Government Area in the inner western suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located about west of Perth's central business district...

  • Mortimer Lewis
    Mortimer Lewis
    Mortimer William Lewis , was an English architect and surveyor who migrated to Australia and became Colonial Architect in the state of New South Wales from 1835 to 1849. Lewis was responsible for designing and overseeing many government buildings in Sydney and rural New South Wales, many of which...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020098b.htm
  • Born London, England 1796
  • Died Sydney, New South Wales 1879
  • NSW Colonial Architect 1835-49
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • Berrima
    Berrima, New South Wales
    Berrima is an historic village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. The village, once a major town, is located on the Old Hume Highway between Canberra and Sydney. It was previously known officially as the Town of Berrima...

     Court House
  • Darlinghurst Court House
  • Richard Leplastrier
    Richard Leplastrier
    Richard Leplastrier is an Australian Architect.After graduation from Sydney University in 1963, he worked in the Sydney office of Jørn Utzon from 1964 to 1966 assisting with documentation of the Sydney Opera House...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (1999)
  • Samuel Lipson
  • Born Scotland
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

     1901
  • Ariived Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

     1925
  • Died Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

     1995
  • Commonwealth Works Department
  • Lipson & Kaad
  • Inter-War Functionalist
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Hastigs Deering Motors (now City Ford), Woolloomooloo
    Woolloomooloo, New South Wales
    Woolloomooloo is a harbourside, inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woolloomooloo is located 1.5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Sydney. The suburb is located in a low-lying, former...

     (1938)
  • Packard Showroom, East Sydney
    East Sydney, New South Wales
    East Sydney is a small inner-city locality in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is situated immediately east of the Sydney central business district, adjacent to Hyde Park....

     (1938)
  • Clive Lucas
    Clive Lucas
    Clive Leslie Lucas is an Australian restoration architect and is principal, and founding partner, of the firm Clive Lucas, Stapleton & Partners - Architects and Heritage Consultants...

  • Australia
  • Clive Lucas Stapleton Partners
  • Restoration
  • Frederick Lucas
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1971)

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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings, Awards & Publications
    • Jack McConnell
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1970)
  • Sir Osborn McCutcheon
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1965)
  • Robert Henry Macdonald
    Ross and Macdonald
    Ross and Macdonald was one of Canada's most notable architecture firms in the early 20th century. Based in Montreal, Quebec, the firm originally operated as a partnership between George Allen Ross and David MacFarlane from 1907 to 1912. MacFarlane retired in 1913, and Robert Henry Macdonald...

  • Born Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

     1875
  • Died Canada 1942
  • Canada
  • Many landmark buildings in Canada
  • David McGlashan
  • Chemical Engineering (1947–48) and Architecture (1948–52) University of Melbourne
    University of Melbourne
    The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

  • Born Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

     1927
  • Died 1998
  • Stephenson and Turner
  • McGlashan & Everist
  • Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....


    • Heide
      Heide Museum of Modern Art
      Heide Museum of Modern Art, more commonly just Heide, is a contemporary art museum located in Bulleen, east of Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1981, the museum comprises several detached buildings and surrounding gardens & parklands of historical importance that are used as gallery spaces to...

      , Templestowe Road, Bulleen (1965) RAIA
      Raia
      Raia may refer to:* Royal Australian Institute of Architects, a professional body for architects in Australia* Raia , a small village in Goa, India, about 6 km from Margao on the way to Loutolim...

       Bronze Medal
  • Raymond McGrath
    Raymond McGrath
    Raymond McGrath was an Australian-born architect and interior designer who for the greater part of his career was Principal Architect for the Office of Public Works in Ireland.-Life:...

  • English and Architecture University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • Architecture Clare College, Cambridge
    Clare College, Cambridge
    Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1326, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens on "the Backs"...

  • Born Gladesville
    Gladesville, New South Wales
    Gladesville is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Gladesville is located 9 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of the City of Ryde and the Municipality of Hunter's Hill and is part of the Northern Suburbs area.Gladesville prides...

     7 March 1903
  • Left Australia 1926
  • Died Dublin 23 December 1977
  • Worked with Serge Chermayeff
    Serge Chermayeff
    Serge Ivan Chermayeff was a Russian born, British architect, industrial designer, writer, and co-founder of several architectural societies, including the American Society of Planners and Architects....

     and Wells Coates
    Wells Coates
    Wells Wintemute Coates OBE was an architect, designer and writer. He was, for most of his life, an ex-patriate Canadian architect who is best known for his work in England...

  • Architect, Public Works, Dublin (1940–46)
  • Principal Architect, Public Works, Dublin (1946–68)
  • Professor of Architecture, Royal Hibernian Academy
    Royal Hibernian Academy
    The Royal Hibernian Academy is an artist-based and artist-oriented institution in Ireland, founded in Dublin in 1823.-History:The RHA was founded as the result of 30 Irish artists petitioning the government for a charter of incorporation...

  • England and Ireland
  • Art Deco
    Art Deco
    Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...

  • Remodelling, Finella, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
    Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
    Gonville and Caius College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college is often referred to simply as "Caius" , after its second founder, John Keys, who fashionably latinised the spelling of his name after studying in Italy.- Outline :Gonville and...

     (1929)
  • Interiors, BBC
    BBC
    The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

     Broadcasting House
    Broadcasting House
    Broadcasting House is the headquarters and registered office of the BBC in Portland Place and Langham Place, London.The building includes the BBC Radio Theatre from where music and speech programmes are recorded in front of a studio audience...

    , Portland Place
    Portland Place
    Portland Place is a street in the Marylebone district of central London, England.-History and topography:The street was laid out by the brothers Robert and James Adam for the Duke of Portland in the late 18th century and originally ran north from the gardens of a detached mansion called Foley House...

    , London (1931)
  • St. Ann's Hill House, Chertsey
    Chertsey
    Chertsey is a town in Surrey, England, on the River Thames and its tributary rivers such as the River Bourne. It can be accessed by road from junction 11 of the M25 London orbital motorway. It shares borders with Staines, Laleham, Shepperton, Addlestone, Woking, Thorpe and Egham...

     (1936)
  • Land's End, Galby, Leicestershire
    Leicestershire
    Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...

  • Various Irish Embassies abroad
  • Cenotaph
    Cenotaph
    A cenotaph is an "empty tomb" or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been interred elsewhere. The word derives from the Greek κενοτάφιον = kenotaphion...

    , Leinster House
    Leinster House
    Leinster House is the name of the building housing the Oireachtas, the national parliament of Ireland.Leinster House was originally the ducal palace of the Dukes of Leinster. Since 1922, it is a complex of buildings, of which the former ducal palace is the core, which house Oireachtas Éireann, its...

    , Dublin
  • Royal Hibernian Academy
    Royal Hibernian Academy
    The Royal Hibernian Academy is an artist-based and artist-oriented institution in Ireland, founded in Dublin in 1823.-History:The RHA was founded as the result of 30 Irish artists petitioning the government for a charter of incorporation...

     (1970)
  • Glass in Architectue and Decoration (Published 1937)
  • Peter McIntyre
    Peter McIntyre (architect)
    Peter McIntyre is an Australian architect, educator and Practice Director of McIntyre Partnership Pty Ltd. Peter McIntyre (born 24 August 1927) is an Australian architect, educator and Practice Director of McIntyre Partnership Pty Ltd. Peter McIntyre (born 24 August 1927) is an Australian...

  • McIntyre Partnership
  • Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

  • Post-War Melbourne Regional
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Seahouse, Mornington
    Mornington, Victoria
    Mornington is a sea side town on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, located 57 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district. It is in the Local Government Area of the Shire of Mornington Peninsula....

     (1983) Robin Boyd Award
    Robin Boyd Award
    The Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture is an Australian architectural prize presented by the Australian Institute of Architects since 1981....

  • RAIA Gold Medal (1990)
  • Gordon Mackinnon
  • George McRae
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • Born Edinburgh
    Edinburgh
    Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

     1858
  • Arrived Australia 1884
  • Died Sydney 1923
  • City Architect Sydney (1886–97)
  • Principal Assistant NSW Government Architect
    (1897-12)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • NSW Government Architect
    (1912-23)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Federation Free Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Anglo-Dutch
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Romanesque
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Corn Exchange, 139-151 Sussex Street, Darling Harbour (1887)
  • Corporation Building, Hay Street, Sydney (1893)
  • Queen Victoria Building
    Queen Victoria Building
    The Queen Victoria Building, or QVB, is a late nineteenth century building by the architect George McRae in the central business district of Sydney, Australia. The Romanesque Revival building is 30 metres wide by 190 metres long, and fills a city block, bounded by George, Market, York and Druitt...

    , George Street, Sydney
    George Street, Sydney
    George Street is one of Sydney's most notable city streets. There are more high rise buildings and more ASX 100 companies located here than anywhere else in Australia, and is well known for being busy around-the-clock...

     (1898)
  • Department of Education Building, Sydney, New South Wales (1912)
  • Parcels Post Office, Railway Square, Sydney
    Railway Square, Sydney
    The area is not a true square but is a confluence of Broadway, Lee Street, Pitt Street and George Street. The University of Technology, Central railway station and the now closed Kent Brewery are adjacent to Railway Square.-History:...

     (1913)
  • Entrances and Elephant House, Taronga Zoo
    Taronga Zoo
    Taronga Zoo is the city zoo of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Officially opened on 7 October 1916, it is located on the shores of Sydney Harbour in the suburb of Mosman...

    , Mosman
  • Court House, Cessnock
    Cessnock, New South Wales
    Cessnock is a city in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, about by road west of Newcastle. It is the administrative centre of the Cessnock City Council LGA and was named after an 1826 grant of land called Cessnock Estate, which was owned by John Campbell...

  • Colin Madigan
    Colin Madigan
    Colin Frederick Madigan AO was an Australian architect. He is best known for designing the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.-Biography:...

  • Born 1921
  • Died 2011
  • Edwards, Madigan, Torzillo & Briggs
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

     and Australian Capital Territory
    Australian Capital Territory
    The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

  • High Court of Australia
    High Court of Australia
    The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the Parliament of Australia and the parliaments of the States, and...

     (1980)
  • National Gallery of Australia
    National Gallery of Australia
    The National Gallery of Australia is the national art gallery of Australia, holding more than 120,000 works of art. It was established in 1967 by the Australian government as a national public art gallery.- Establishment :...

     (1982)
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1981)
  • Barrie Marshall
    Denton Corker Marshall
    Denton Corker Marshall is a major award-winning Australian architecture practice established in Melbourne in 1972. It was founded by architects John Denton, Bill Corker, and Barrie Marshall...

  • Denton Corker Marshall
    Denton Corker Marshall
    Denton Corker Marshall is a major award-winning Australian architecture practice established in Melbourne in 1972. It was founded by architects John Denton, Bill Corker, and Barrie Marshall...

  • Australia and International
  • Melbourne Museum
    Melbourne Museum
    Melbourne Museum is located in the Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, Australia, adjacent the Royal Exhibition Building.It is the largest museum in the Southern Hemisphere, and is a venue of Museum Victoria, which also operates the Immigration Museum and Scienceworks Museum.The museum has seven main...

  • Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
    Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
    The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre is the name given to two adjacent buildings next to the Yarra River in South Wharf, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

  • Bolte Bridge
    Bolte Bridge
    The Bolte Bridge is a large twin Cantilever bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It spans the Yarra River and Victoria Harbour in the Docklands precinct to the west of the Melbourne CBD...

  • Visitors Centre, Stonehenge
    Stonehenge
    Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks...

  • Australian Embassy, Tokyo
  • Australian Embassy, Beijing
  • Governor Phillip Tower & Museum of Sydney
    Governor Phillip Tower
    Governor Phillip Tower, Governor Macquarie Tower and the Museum of Sydney are the main elements of one of the largest developments in the City of Sydney. Completed in 1994, they occupy an elevated site in the Central Business District’s prestigious north-east area...

  • Australian War Memorial
    Australian War Memorial
    The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of all its armed forces and supporting organisations who have died or participated in the wars of the Commonwealth of Australia...

    , Extension
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1996)
  • Marcus Martin

  • Partners
    • Rodney Alsop
    • Walter Butler
      Walter Butler (architect)
      Walter Richmond Butler , was an Australian architect trained in the Arts and Crafts style, born in Somerset, England.-Personal life:...

    • Kingsley Henderson
    • Victoria
      Victoria (Australia)
      Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

  • Inter-War Spanish Mission
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Mediterranean
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Georgian Revival
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Broome, 6 Glyndebourne Avenue, Toorak
    Toorak, Victoria
    Toorak is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district located on a rise on the south side of a bend in the Yarra River. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington...

     (1925)
  • Maisonettes, Cnr Domain Road and Caroline Street, South Yarra (1925)
  • John Mockridge http://users.tce.rmit.edu.au/E03159/ModMelb/mm2/index.html#anchor142416
  • Architecture Gordon Institute of Technology
    Gordon Institute of TAFE
    The Gordon Institute of TAFE is the TAFE institute servicing Geelong since 1888. It has 26,000 students studying on-campus, off-campus and in business or industry ....

  • Atelier University of Melbourne
    University of Melbourne
    The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

  • Born 17 May 1916
  • Died 20 October 1994
  • Commonwealth Department of Works
  • Buchan, Laird & Buchan
  • Mockridge Stahle & Mitchell
  • Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

     and numerous primary schools in Australian Capital Territory
    Australian Capital Territory
    The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

  • Post-War Ecclesiastical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Post-War Melbourne Regional
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Cornell House, Mountain Avenue, Frankston
    Frankston, Victoria
    Frankston is a suburb within the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area in Victoria, Australia. It is located 40 km southeast of the state capital Melbourne at the southernmost edge of Greater Melbourne, near the beginnings of the Mornington Peninsula...

     (1950)
  • Sannazzaro House, Canadian Bay Road, Mount Eliza
    Mount Eliza, Victoria
    Mount Eliza is an outer suburb south-east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the Local Government Area of the Shire of Mornington Peninsula...

     (1950)
  • Watt House, Sorrento
    Sorrento, Victoria
    Sorrento is a township in Victoria, Australia, located on the shores of Port Phillip on the Mornington Peninsula, about one and a half hours south of Melbourne...

     (1951)
  • Ross House, Nepean Highway, Sorrento (1953)
  • Spencer House, Cnr Verdant Avenue and Glover Court, Toorak
    Toorak, Victoria
    Toorak is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district located on a rise on the south side of a bend in the Yarra River. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington...

     (1955)
  • Johnson House, 450 Beach Road, Beaumaris
    Beaumaris, Victoria
    Beaumaris is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Beaumaris had a population of 12,441....

     (1956)
  • Grutzner House, 55 Haydens Road, Beaumaris (1956)
  • Spencer House, McIlroys Road, Red Hill
    Red Hill, Victoria
    Red Hill is a small rural community, located in the hinterland of the Mornington Peninsula, about an hour's drive south of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The Local Government Area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula...

     (1959)
  • Church of the Mother of God, East Ivanhoe (1957)
  • St Faith's Church of England, Burwood
    Burwood, Victoria
    Burwood is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is largely the City of Whitehorse but includes the City of Monash in its south west corner. At the 2006 Census, Burwood had a population of 11,886.-History:The...

  • Church of Mary Immaculate, Ivanhoe
    Ivanhoe, Victoria
    Ivanhoe is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule. At the 2006 Census, Ivanhoe had a population of 10,600.-History:...

  • Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beaumaris
  • Holy Trinity, Church of England, Doncaster
    Doncaster, Victoria
    Doncaster is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Manningham. At the 2006 Census, Doncaster had a population of 17,879....

  • Melbourne Grammar School
    Melbourne Grammar School
    Melbourne Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school predominantly for boys, located in South Yarra and Caulfield, suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....

     Boat House and Centenary Building, Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

  • Brighton Grammar School
    Brighton Grammar School
    Brighton Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, day school for boys, located in Brighton, a south-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....

     Library, Assembly Hall and Sports Pavilion, Brighton
    Brighton, Victoria
    Brighton is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Brighton had a population of 20,651...

  • Haileybury College
    Haileybury, Melbourne
    Haileybury is an independent school affiliated with the Uniting Church in Australia, located in Berwick, Brighton East and Keysborough, suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school incorporates both Haileybury College, an all-boys college and Haileybury Girls' College, an all-girls college...

     Great Hall Complex and Quadrangle, Berwick
    Berwick, Victoria
    Berwick is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Casey. At the 2006 Census, Berwick had a population of 36,420....

  • Ridley College
    Ridley College (University of Melbourne)
    Ridley Melbourne—Mission & Ministry College is a Christian theological college in the parklands of central Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1910, it has an evangelical foundation and outlook and is affiliated with the Australian College of Theology and the Anglican Church of Australia...

     Aicken and Arundel Wing, Parkville
    Parkville, Victoria
    Parkville is an inner city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne. At the 2006 Census, the population was 4,980....

  • Australian National University
    Australian National University
    The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...


    H C Coombs Building, Acton
    Acton, Australian Capital Territory
    Acton is a suburb of Canberra, Australia. Acton covers an area west of the CBD, bordered by Black Mountain to the west and Lake Burley Griffin in the south...

  • University of Melbourne
    University of Melbourne
    The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

     Medical Center, Parkville
  • University of Ballarat
    University of Ballarat
    The University of Ballarat is a dual-sector university in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. It was formed by the passage of an Act of the Victorian Parliament in 1994, from the Ballarat College of Advanced Education...

    , Great Hall and School of the Arts, Ballarat
  • Camberwell
    Camberwell, Victoria
    Camberwell is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Boroondara. At the 2006 Census, Camberwell had a population of 19,637....

     Civic Center and Municipal Offices -->
  • John Morphett
  • RAIA Gold Medal (2000)
  • Bryce Mortlock
    Bryce Mortlock
    Dr. Bryce Mortlock was an Australian architect and planner. In partnership with Sydney Ancher, Stuart Murray andKen Woolley, his career spanned the era in which modern Australian architecture was consolidated....

  • Ancher Mortlock Murray & Woolley
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1979)
  • Peter Muller
    Peter Muller (architect)
    Peter Muller is an Adelaide born architect with works in Bali, Sydney, South Australia and Melbourne. Citing Frank Lloyd Wright as a major influence, Muller's alternative organic conception of architecture gives him an important place in post-war Australian Architecture.-Early Years and...

     http://www.petermuller.org/
  • B.Engineering University of Adelaide
    University of Adelaide
    The University of Adelaide is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third oldest university in Australia...

     1948
  • M.Architecture University of Philadelphia 1951
  • Born Adelaide
    Adelaide
    Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

     1927
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Bali
    Bali
    Bali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east...

  • Mid 20th Century Organic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Audette House, Edinburgh Road, Castlecrag
    Castlecrag, New South Wales
    Castlecrag is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Castlecrag is located 8 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Willoughby....

     (1952)
  • Muller House, 42 Bynya Road, Whale Beach
    Whale Beach, New South Wales
    Whale Beach is a northern beachside suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Whale Beach is located 40 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Pittwater Council, in the Northern Beaches region.At the northern end just off the...

     (1954)
  • Richardson House, 949 Barrenjoey Road, Palm Beach
    Palm Beach, New South Wales
    Palm Beach is a northern beachside suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Palm Beach is located 41 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Pittwater Council, in the Northern Beaches region. Palm Beach sits on a peninsula at...

     (1956)
  • McGrath House, 4 Dunara Gardens, Point Piper
    Point Piper, New South Wales
    Point Piper is a small, harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located six kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area known as the Municipality of Woollahra....

     (1957)
  • Richardson Ski Lodge, Threbo Village
    Thredbo, New South Wales
    Thredbo Village and ski resort is in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, and a part of the Snowy River Shire.Thredbo is about 500 kilometres south of Sydney, accessible by the Alpine Way via Cooma, Berridale and Jindabyne...

     (1959)
  • Hoyts
    Hoyts
    The Hoyts Group is an Australian company consisting of Hoyts Exhibition, Hoyts Distribution and Val Morgan.Hoyts Exhibition manages 450 screens across 40 Australian and 10 New Zealand cinema complexes; making it Australia's second largest cinema chain. Val Morgan, the cinema advertising arm of the...

     Cinema Centre, Bourke St. Melbourne, Vic. (1967)
  • Townhouses, Trelawney Street, Woollahra
    Woollahra, New South Wales
    Woollahra is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woollahra is located 5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra. The Municipality of Woollahra takes its name from the...

     (1969)
  • Dulhunty homestead, Nant Lodge, Glen Innes
    Glen Innes, New South Wales
    Glen Innes is a parish and town on the Northern Tablelands, in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the centre of the Glen Innes Severn Shire Council. The town is located at the intersection of the New England Highway and the Gwydir Highway...

     (1970)
  • Bali Oberoi
    Oberoi
    Oberoi is a Khatri / clan .-History:Oberoi is a prominent Khatri surname found in India's Punjab state. They are a north Indian community that originated in the Potohar Plateau of Punjab. This region is historically connected with the composition of the Vedas and classics like the Mahabharata and...

    , Indonesia
    Indonesia
    Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

     (1977–2001)
  • Oberoi Kolva Beach resort Hotel, Goa
    Goa
    Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

    , India (1980)
  • Karnak Oberoi Hotel, Luxor
    Luxor
    Luxor is a city in Upper Egypt and the capital of Luxor Governorate. The population numbers 487,896 , with an area of approximately . As the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world's greatest open air museum", as the ruins of the temple...

    , Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

     (1982)
  • Oberoi Lombok
    Lombok
    Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It forms part of the chain of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa to the east...

    , Indonesia (1997)
  • Amandari Hotel Bali
    Bali
    Bali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east...

     (1989)
  • Glenn Murcutt
    Glenn Murcutt
    Glenn Marcus Murcutt AO is a British-born Australian architect and winner of the 2002 Pritzker Prize and 2009 AIA Gold Medal.-Biography:...

  • Born London 1936
  • New South Wales
  • Late 20th Century Late Modern
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (1992)

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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
    • Gilbert Nicol
  • Cameron, Chisholm & Nicol
  • Australia
  • National Carillon
    National Carillon
    The National Carillon, situated on Aspen Island in central Canberra, Australia is a large carillon managed and maintained by the National Capital Authority on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia.- History :...

    , Canberra
    Canberra
    Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

     (1970)
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1983)
  • Harry Norris
    Harry Norris
    Harry Norris was an Australian architect whose works are spread across Melbourne. He was well known for his strong Art Deco Style combining American and Australian architecture. He was one of the most prolific commercial architects between 1920 and 1930...

  • Born 1888
  • Died 1966
  • Inter-war Functionalism
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Burnham Beeches
    Burnham Beeches (Australia)
    Burnham Beeches is a 1930s streamline-moderne mansion built for Aspro-brand sales magnate Alfred Nicholas on Sherbrooke Road, Sherbrooke, Victoria in the Dandenong Ranges, 40 kilometres from Melbourne, Australia.-History:...

    , Sherbrooke Road, Sherbrooke
    Sherbrooke, Victoria
    Sherbrooke is a settlement in Victoria, Australia, 35 km east of Melbourne. Its local-government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 census, Sherbrooke had a population of 196....

     (1933)
  • Mitchell House, Melbourne
  • G J Coles Building, Bourke Street, Melbourne
    Bourke Street, Melbourne
    Bourke Street is one of Melbourne's best known streets. Historically been regarded as Melbourne's "second street", with the main street being Collins Street and "busier than Bourke Street" is a popular catchphrase. Bourke Street has traditionally been Melbourne's entertainment hub...

  • Nicholas Building, Melbourne

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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
    • John Oldham
      John Oldham (architect)
      John Oldham at Subiaco, Western Australia) was a landscape architect in Western Australia. Oldham a pioneer of landscape architecture in Australia, and his journalist wife Ray were founding members of the National Trust and were prominent in the fight to save some of WA’s iconic buildings during...

       OA
    • University of Western Australia
      University of Western Australia
      The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...

    • Melbourne University
  • Born Perth
    Perth, Western Australia
    Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

     1907
  • Died Perth 1997
  • Oldham, Boas and Ednie-Brown
  • Stephenson and Turner
  • WA State Government Landscape Architect
  • Australian Pavilion - 1939 New York World's Fair
    1939 New York World's Fair
    The 1939–40 New York World's Fair, which covered the of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park , was the second largest American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million people...

  • Eddie H Oribin
  • Born Cairns 1927
  • In Practice with SG Barnes (1953–1959), and privately (to 1973)
  • Far North Queensland
    Far North Queensland
    Far North Queensland, or FNQ, is the northernmost part of the Australian state of Queensland. The region, which contains a large section of the Tropical North Queensland area, stretches from the city of Cairns north to the Torres Strait...

  • St Paul's Anglican Church, Proserpine (1958)
  • Oribin house & studio (1958 & 1960)
  • Mareeba Public Hall (1961)
  • St Andrew's Presbyterian Memorial Church, Innisfail (constructed 1961)
  • Oribin House, Stanthorpe (c.1980)
  • Sir John Overall CBE MC
    John Overall (architect)
    Sir John Wallace Overall CBE, MC & Bar was an Australian World War II veteran and architect.Overall served as an officer in the Australian Imperial Force during the Second World War, where he was awarded the Military Cross for "great courage, devotion and initiative" in 1941 for his service during...

  • Architecture Sydney Technical College
    Sydney Technical College
    The Sydney Technical College was a name used by Australia's oldest technical education institution.It began as the Sydney Mechanics' Institute in 1843...

  • Born Sydney 1913
  • Died 2001
  • Chief Architect, South Australian Housing Trust
    South Australian Housing Trust
    The South Australian Housing Trust was a statutory authority established by the of the Government of South Australia responsible for providing low-cost rental housing to working people and their families.-History:...

     (1945–49)
  • Partner, Overall and Walkley (1949–52)
  • Chief Government Architect, Commonwealth Department of Works (1952–57)
  • Commissioner, National Capital Development Commission
    National Capital Development Commission
    The National Capital Development Commission was an Australian Commonwealth Government body created to complete the establishment of Canberra as the seat of government. It was created in 1957 through the National Capital Development Commission Act 1957.Under the control of the NCDC Canberra grew...

     (1958–72)
  • Member, Parliament House Construction Authority
    Parliament House, Canberra
    Parliament House is the meeting facility of the Parliament of Australia located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. The building was designed by Mitchell/Giurgola Architects and opened on 1988 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia...

     (1979–85)
  • South Australia
    South Australia
    South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

  • Australian Capital Territory
    Australian Capital Territory
    The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

  • The Private Secretary's Cottage (Peppertree Cottage), Government House, Adelaide
    Government House, Adelaide
    Government House, located in Adelaide on the corner of North Terrace and King William Road, is the official residence of the Governor of South Australia.-History:The original 'Government Hut' was a thatched hut constructed by the seamen of the HMS Buffalo...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (1982)

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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
    • Cobden Parkes
      New South Wales Government Architect
      The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • NSW Government Architect
    (1935-58)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (1964)
  • George Herbert Parry
    George Herbert Parry
    George Herbert Parry was a Western Australian architect. He was born in Perth, the son of the second Anglican Bishop of Perth, Henry Hutton Parry....

  • Born 1882
  • Died 1947
  • Western Australia Public Works Department
  • Cavanagh and Cavanagh
  • Parry and Clifton
  • Western Australia
  • Inter-War Old English
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

    ,
  • Chapel, Sister's Kate's Children's Home, Queens Park
    Queens Park, Western Australia
    Queens Park is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Canning. Its postcode is 6107.-History:The suburb derives its name from the former Queens Park Road Board that was incorporated into the Canning and Belmont Road Boards....

  • St Mary the Virgin Church, South Perth
    South Perth, Western Australia
    South Perth is a residential suburb 3 kilometres south of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, which adjoins the southern shore of Perth Water on the Swan River...

  • St Cuthbert's Anglican Church, Darlington
    Darlington, Western Australia
    Darlington, Western Australia, is a locality in the Shire of Mundaring on the Darling Scarp, dissected by Nyaania Creek and north of the Helena River.- Location :...

  • Mervyn Parry
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1978)
  • Barry Patten
    Barry Patten
    Barry Beauchamp Patten was an Australian architect and Olympic alpine skier.He was born in McKinnon, Victoria....

  • Combined architecture course
    Melbourne Technical College
    RMIT University
    RMIT University is an Australian public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. It has two branches, referred to as RMIT University in Australia and RMIT International University in Vietnam....

     and University of Melbourne
    University of Melbourne
    The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

  • Born Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

     1927
  • Died Melbourne 2003
  • Yuncken Freeman Brothers Griffiths & Simpson
  • Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

  • Sidney Myer Music Bowl
    Sidney Myer Music Bowl
    The Sidney Myer Music Bowl is an outdoor performance venue in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located in the lawns and gardens of Kings Domain, close to the Arts Centre and the Southbank entertainment precinct...

  • Former BHP Tower
  • Victorian State Offices
  • William Pitt
    William Pitt (architect)
    William Pitt born in Melbourne was an architect, public servant and politician working in Victoria, Australia in the later part of the 19th century and early 20th century....

  • Born 1855
  • Died 1918
  • Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

  • Victorian Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Second Empire
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Olderfleet and Rialto Buildings Collins Street, Melbourne
    Collins Street, Melbourne
    Collins Street is a major street in the Melbourne central business district and runs approximately east to west.It is notable as Melbourne's traditional main street and best known street, is often regarded as Australia's premier street, with some of the country's finest Victorian era buildings.The...

  • Princess Theatre, Melbourne
  • Federal Coffee Palace, Melbourne
  • Empire Works
    Bryant and May Factory, Melbourne
    The Bryant and May Factory is located in the suburb of Cremorne in Melbourne, Australia. It was constructed in 1909 as the Empire Works to a design by prolific Melbourne architect William Pitt...

    , Richmond
    Richmond, Victoria
    Richmond is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra...

  • Gabriel Poole
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1998)
  • Alex Popov
    Alex Popov (architect)
    Alexander Popov is an Australian architect working in the Late 20th Century Modern style.-Biography:Popov was born in Shanghai of Russian parents and moved to Sydney aged twelve. He was educated at Newington College and the University of Sydney before studying further in Denmark...

  • Born Shanghai 3 February 1942
  • Arrived Australia 1954
  • Jørn Utzon
    Jørn Utzon
    Jørn Oberg Utzon, , AC was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, Utzon became only the second person to have received such recognition for one of his works during his lifetime...

  • Alex Popov and Associates
  • Late 20th Century Modern
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • SCEGCGS Redlands Gym
    SCECGS Redlands
    Redlands, is an independent, co-educational, day school, located in Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia.The school is non-selective and currently caters for approximately 1700 students from pre-school to year 12....

    , Cremorne
    Cremorne, New South Wales
    Cremorne is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Cremorne is located 6 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council....

  • Griffin House, Castlecrag

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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
    • Neville Quarry
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1994)

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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
    • Howard Raggatt
      Howard Raggatt
      Howard Raggatt is an Australian architect, member of the firm Ashton Raggatt McDougall, and best known for the design of the National Museum of Australia, opened in 2001.-References:...

  • Ashton Raggatt McDougall
  • Postmodern
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • National Museum of Australia
    National Museum of Australia
    The National Museum of Australia was formally established by the National Museum of Australia Act 1980. The National Museum preserves and interprets Australia's social history, exploring the key issues, people and events that have shaped the nation....

  • Joseph Reed
    Joseph Reed (architect)
    Joseph Reed , a Cornishman by birth, was probably the most influential Victorian era architect in Melbourne, Australia. He established a practice, Reed and Barnes in Melbourne in 1852. The practice now known as Bates Smart is one of the oldest continually operating in the world.Reed's buildings...

  • Born c1823
  • Died 1890
  • Bruce Rickard
  • Thomas Rowe
    Thomas Rowe
    Thomas Rowe , wasone of Australia's leading architects of the Victorian era.-Biography:Thomas Rowe was born in Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom, the eldest son of Richard Rowe and Ursula Mumford, and attended Barnes Academy. At 15 he became a draftsman in his father's building business before the...

  • Born Penzance, England 20 July 1829
  • Arrived Australia 1848
  • Died Darling Point
    Darling Point, New South Wales
    Darling Point is a harbourside, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Darling Point is located 4 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Woollahra Council....

     7 March 1899

  • Partners
    • W B Field
    • Sydney Green
    • Alfred Spain
  • Victorian
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Presbyterian Church
    Presbyterianism
    Presbyterianism refers to a number of Christian churches adhering to the Calvinist theological tradition within Protestantism, which are organized according to a characteristic Presbyterian polity. Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Scriptures,...

    , Bathurst
    Bathurst, New South Wales
    -CBD and suburbs:Bathurst's CBD is located on William, George, Howick, Russell, and Durham Streets. The CBD is approximately 25 hectares and surrounds two city blocks. Within this block layout is banking, government services, shopping centres, retail shops, a park* and monuments...

     (1871)
  • Great Synagogue
    Great Synagogue (Sydney)
    The Great Synagogue is a large synagogue in Sydney, Australia. It is located in Elizabeth Street opposite Hyde Park and extends back to Castlereagh Street.-Description and history:...

    , Elizabeth Street, Sydney
    Elizabeth Street, Sydney
    Elizabeth Street is a street in Sydney, Australia.-Description and history:Elizabeth Street runs south from Hunter Street, past Hyde Park and David Jones, Central station and through the inner city suburbs of Surry Hills, Redfern, Waterloo and Zetland...

     (1874)
  • Sydney Hospital
    Sydney Hospital
    Sydney Hospital is a major hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Macquarie Street in the Sydney central business district. It is the oldest hospital in Australia, dating back to 1788, and has been at its current location since 1811. It first received the name Sydney Hospital in 1881.Currently...

    , Macquarie Street, Sydney
    Macquarie Street, Sydney
    Macquarie Street is the easternmost street of Sydney's central business district. Macquarie Street extends from Hyde Park at its southern end to the Sydney Opera House at its north.-Description:...

     (1879)
  • Newington College
    Newington College
    Newington College is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Stanmore, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    , Stanmore
    Stanmore, New South Wales
    Stanmore is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Stanmore is located 6 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Marrickville Council.-History:...

     (1878)

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    Architect & Education Birth, Death & Immigration Firms, Institutions & Geographical location Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
  • Born Launceston, Tasmania
    Launceston, Tasmania
    Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River. Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania after the state capital Hobart...

     24 June 1875
  • Died Paddington
    Paddington, New South Wales
    Paddington is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Paddington is located 3 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and lies across the local government areas of the City of Sydney and the Municipality of Woollahra...

     25 June 1961
  • T P Sampson
  • New South Wales
  • Federation Arts and Crafts
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Bungalow
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Kama, Strathfield
    Strathfield, New South Wales
    Strathfield is an Inner West suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Strathfield is located 14 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of the Municipality of Strathfield...

     (1913) http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_01_2.cfm?itemid=2450107
  • Romahapa, Centennial Park
    Centennial Park, New South Wales
    Centennial Park is a large public, urban park that occupies 220 hectares in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Centennial Park is located 4 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district, in the City of Randwick...

     (1914) http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_01_2.cfm?itemid=2420245
  • Concord Golf Club Clubhouse, Concord
    Concord, New South Wales
    Concord is a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 15 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Canada Bay....

     (1921) http://www.concordgolfclub.com.au/guests/golf/gfhistory.mhtml
  • Conrad Sayce
    Conrad Sayce
    Conrad Harvey Sayce was a British born Australian architect and author.Conrad Sayce was born in Hereford and educated in England before migrating to Australia. He practised architecture in Melbourne with Rodney Alsop and the firm of Alsop & Sayce won the Hackett Competition for the design of...

  • Born Hereford, England 1888
  • Arrived Australia 18??
  • Died Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

     1935
  • Alsop & Sayce
  • Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

     and Western Australia
  • Inter-War Mediterranean
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Winthrop Hall, University of Western Australia
    University of Western Australia
    The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...

  • Harry Seidler
    Harry Seidler
    Harry Seidler, AC OBE was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia.Harry Seidler designed more than 180 buildings and he...

  • Born Vienna
    Vienna
    Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

     25 June 1923
  • Arrived Australia 1948
  • Died Sydney 9 March 2006
  • Harry Seidler & Associates
  • Australia and International
  • Post-War International
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Late 20th Century International
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Late 20th Century Brutalist
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Late 20th Century Structuralist
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Rose Seidler House, Wahroonga (1951) Sulman Medal
  • Blues Point Tower
    Blues Point Tower
    Blues Point Tower is an apartment block in Sydney, Australia. Located in McMahons Point, close toNorth Sydney, the tower is 83m tall with 144 apartments over 25 levels...

    , Milsons Point (1961)
  • Ski Lodge, Thredbo (1965) Wilkinson Award
    Wilkinson Award
    The Wilkinson Award is an Australian architectural prize presented by the Australian Institute of Architects and was first awarded in 1961....

  • Muller House Port Hacking
    Port Hacking
    Port Hacking is an Australian estuary, located in Southern Sydney, New South Wales and fed by the Hacking River and several smaller creeks, including Bundeena Creek and The Basin. It is a ria, a river basin which has become submerged by the sea...

     (1966) Wilkinson Award
    Wilkinson Award
    The Wilkinson Award is an Australian architectural prize presented by the Australian Institute of Architects and was first awarded in 1961....

  • Australia Square Tower
    Australia Square
    Australia Square is an office and retail complex in the central business district of Sydney, Australia. Its main address is 264 George Street, and the Square is bounded on the northern side by Bond Street, eastern side by Pitt Street and southern side by Curtin Place.The building was designed by...

    , George Street, Sydney
    George Street, Sydney
    George Street is one of Sydney's most notable city streets. There are more high rise buildings and more ASX 100 companies located here than anywhere else in Australia, and is well known for being busy around-the-clock...

     (1967)
  • Harry and Penelope Seidler House
    Harry and Penelope Seidler House
    Harry and Penelope Seidler House was the home of architect Harry Seidler. It is located on 13 Kalang Ave in the suburb of Killara on Sydney's North Shore, and was designed by Harry and Penelope Seidler.-Features:...

    , Killara (1967) Wilkinson Award
    Wilkinson Award
    The Wilkinson Award is an Australian architectural prize presented by the Australian Institute of Architects and was first awarded in 1961....

  • MLC Centre
    MLC Centre
    The MLC Centre is a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia. This office building is 228 metres high and has 60 storeys. Occupants include the Sydney Consulate of the United States of America. The podium of the building includes a shopping centre with several exclusive fashion labels and a 1,186 seat...

    , Martin Place, Sydney
    Martin Place, Sydney
    Martin Place, formerly known as Moore Street, is a pedestrian mall in the central business district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Home to the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Macquarie Bank and other corporations, Martin Place is synonymous with corporate...

     (1975) Sulman Medal
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1976)
  • Offices, Glen Street, Milsons Point (1981) Sulman Medal
  • Riverside Centre
    Riverside Centre, Brisbane
    The Riverside Centre is a skyscraper designed by Harry Seidler and located at 123 Eagle Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Completed in 1986, it contains 40 storeys and rises 146 m above ground...

    , Brisbane
    Brisbane
    Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

     (1986)
  • Capita Centre
    Capita Centre
    Capita Centre, also known as the Castlereagh Centre, is a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia. Located at 9-11 Castlereagh Street, it is 183 m tall from spire and 158 m tall from roof. The building was designed by Harry Seidler & Associates....

    , Sydney (1989)
  • Grosvenor Place, George Street, Sydney
    George Street, Sydney
    George Street is one of Sydney's most notable city streets. There are more high rise buildings and more ASX 100 companies located here than anywhere else in Australia, and is well known for being busy around-the-clock...

     (1991) Sulman Medal
  • Hamilton House, Sydney (1991)
  • Horizon Apartments, Darlinghurst (1999) Wilkinson Award
    Wilkinson Award
    The Wilkinson Award is an Australian architectural prize presented by the Australian Institute of Architects and was first awarded in 1961....

  • Riparian Plaza
    Riparian Plaza, Brisbane
    Riparian Plaza is a 53-storey skyscraper located in the central business district of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The building stands at in height to its communications spire and to its roof. It is the city's tallest building, or second tallest if measured to roof after the Aurora Tower, not...

    , Brisbane (2005)
  • Roy Simpson
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1997)
  • John Smedley http://www.manly.nsw.gov.au/IgnitionSuite/uploads/docs/S%20Manly%20Biographical.pdf
  • Articled to G A Mansfield
  • Born Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

     4 March 1841
  • Died Shanghai
    Shanghai
    Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

     17 November 1903
  • New South Wales
  • Queensland
  • Victorian Italianate
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Sydney Trades Hall
    Sydney Trades Hall
    The Sydney Trades Hall is the historic Trades Hall in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The building was built and owned by the Trades Hall Association, the original trade union affiliates who built the hall in 1888....

    , Sydney (1888) http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_01_2.cfm?itemid=5045314
  • Stanmore
    Stanmore, New South Wales
    Stanmore is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Stanmore is located 6 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Marrickville Council.-History:...

     Methodist Church, Newington College Chapel
    Newington College
    Newington College is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Stanmore, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

     (1883, demolished 1975)
  • Waterloo Town Hall
    Waterloo, New South Wales
    Waterloo is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Waterloo is located 4 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney.-History:...

     (1880) http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_01_2.cfm?itemid=2420704
  • A Bramwell Smith
  • Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

  • Post-War American Colonial
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Edwin Smith
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • NSW Government Architect
    (1929-35)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Douglas Snelling
    Douglas Snelling
    Douglas B. Snelling was an English-born graphic artist, furniture designer and registered architect, practicing in Sydney, Australia from 1944-1975. He was nationally renowned for his modernist furniture named “The Snelling Line” produced by Functional Products Pty Ltd...

  • Born Kent, England 1917
  • Died Sydney, Australia 1985
  • Modernist
    Modern architecture
    Modern architecture is generally characterized by simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building. It is a term applied to an overarching movement, with its exact definition and scope varying widely...

  • Emil Sodersten
    Emil Sodersten
    Emil Lawrence Sodersten was an Australian architect active in the second quarter of the 20th century. His work encompassed the Australian architectural styles of Art Deco and Functionalist & Moderne. His deign for the Australian War Memorial was "the first national architectural monument in...

     http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160337b.htm
  • Architecture Sydney Technical College
    Sydney Technical College
    The Sydney Technical College was a name used by Australia's oldest technical education institution.It began as the Sydney Mechanics' Institute in 1843...

  • Architecture Lectures University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • Articled
    Articled clerk
    An articled clerk, also known as an articling student, is an apprentice in a professional firm in Commonwealth countries. Generally the term arises in the accountancy profession and in the legal profession. The articled clerk signs a contract, known as "articles of clerkship", committing to a...

     to Ross & Rowe
  • Born Balmain
    Balmain, New South Wales
    Balmain is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Balmain is located slightly west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Leichhardt....

     30 August 1899
  • Died Manly
    Manly, New South Wales
    Manly is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Manly is located 17 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of Manly Council, in the Northern Beaches region.-History:Manly was named...

     14 December 1961
  • Hall & Prentice
  • John P. Tate & Young
  • Emil Sodersteen/Emil Sodersten
  • Sodersten & Sodersten
  • Queensland
    Queensland
    Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

     and New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Inter-War Art Deco
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Functionalism & Moderne
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Design Team, Brisbane City Hall
    Brisbane City Hall
    Brisbane City Hall, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is the seat of the Brisbane City Council. It is located adjacent to King George Square, where the rectangular City Hall has its main entrance. The City Hall also has frontages and entrances in both Ann Street and Adelaide Street...

     (1921)
  • Australian War Memorial
    Australian War Memorial
    The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of all its armed forces and supporting organisations who have died or participated in the wars of the Commonwealth of Australia...

    , Canberra
    Canberra
    Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

     (1925)
  • Birtley Towers, Elizabeth Bay
    Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales
    Elizabeth Bay is a harbourside suburb in eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Elizabeth Bay is located 3 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney....

     (1935)
  • CML Building, Sydney (1936)
  • Nesca House, Newcastle
    Newcastle, New South Wales
    The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...

     (1939)
  • James Stahle http://users.tce.rmit.edu.au/E03159/ModMelb/mm2/index.html#anchor142416
  • Atelier University of Melbourne
    University of Melbourne
    The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

  • Buchan, Laird & Buchan
  • Mockridge, Stahle & Mitchell (1948–83)
  • Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

  • Post-War Ecclesiastical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Post-War Melbourne Regional
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Orwell Park, 15 Atkinson Street, Templestowe (1953)
  • Hooper House, 129 Winmalee Road, Balwyn (1954)
  • St Mark's Church of England, Sunshine
    Sunshine, Victoria
    Sunshine is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia lying 11 to 13 km west of the CBD. Its Local Government Area is the City of Brimbank. At the 2006 Census, Sunshine had a population of 8,070.-History:...

  • Melbourne Grammar School
    Melbourne Grammar School
    Melbourne Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school predominantly for boys, located in South Yarra and Caulfield, suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....

    , Myer
    Sidney Myer
    Sidney Baevski Myer was a Russian Australian businessman and philanthropist, best known for creating Myer, Australia's largest chain of department stores.-Early life:...

     Music School, South Yarra
  • Ridley College
    Ridley College (University of Melbourne)
    Ridley Melbourne—Mission & Ministry College is a Christian theological college in the parklands of central Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1910, it has an evangelical foundation and outlook and is affiliated with the Australian College of Theology and the Anglican Church of Australia...

     Chapel, Parkville
    Parkville, Victoria
    Parkville is an inner city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne. At the 2006 Census, the population was 4,980....

  • Sir Arthur Stephenson
  • Stephenson & Meldrum
  • Stephenson & Turner
  • Australia
  • Inter-War Functionalist
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Post-War International
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • King George V Memorial Hospital for Mothers and Babies
    Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
    The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital is a major public teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Missenden Road in Camperdown...

    , Missenden Road, Camperdown
    Camperdown, New South Wales
    Camperdown is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Camperdown is located 4 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Inner West region...

     (1941) RAIA
    Raia
    Raia may refer to:* Royal Australian Institute of Architects, a professional body for architects in Australia* Raia , a small village in Goa, India, about 6 km from Margao on the way to Loutolim...

     Sir John Sulman Medal
    Sir John Sulman Medal
    The Sir John Sulman Medal is a New South Wales architectural prize presented by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and was first awarded in 1932....

  • Concord Repatriation General Hospital
    Concord Repatriation General Hospital
    Concord Repatriation General Hospital , commonly referred to as simply Concord Hospital, is a major hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Hospital Road in Concord...

    , Hospital Road, Concord
    Concord, New South Wales
    Concord is a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 15 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Canada Bay....

     (1946) RAIA Sir John Sulman Medal
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1963)
  • Colin Still http://www.ybe2004.nsw.gov.au/ybe2004events09sep26.html
  • Born Sydney 13 March 1943
  • NSW Government Architects Office
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • Phillip Cox Partners
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Late 20th Century Late Modern
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • City Council Library & Regional Gallery, Orange
    Orange, New South Wales
    Orange is a city in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It is west of the state capital, Sydney, at an altitude of . Orange has an estimated population of 39,329 and the city is a major provincial centre....

     (1986) RAIA
    Raia
    Raia may refer to:* Royal Australian Institute of Architects, a professional body for architects in Australia* Raia , a small village in Goa, India, about 6 km from Margao on the way to Loutolim...

     Sir John Sulman Medal
    Sir John Sulman Medal
    The Sir John Sulman Medal is a New South Wales architectural prize presented by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and was first awarded in 1932....

  • NSW State Sports Centre, Olympic Park
    Olympic Park
    An Olympic Park is a sports campus for hosting the Olympic Games. Typically it contains the Olympic Stadium and the International Broadcast Centre. It may also contain the Olympic Village or some of the other sports venues, such as the aquatics complex in the case of the summer games, or the main...

  • Peter Stutchbury
  • Stutchbury + Pape
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Bay House, Sydney (2003) Robin Boyd Award
    Robin Boyd Award
    The Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture is an Australian architectural prize presented by the Australian Institute of Architects since 1981....

  • Sir John Sulman
    John Sulman
    Sir John Sulman was an Australian architect. Born in Greenwich, England, he emigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1885. From 1921 to 1924 he was chairman of the Federal Capital Advisory Committee and influenced the development of Canberra.-Early life:Sulman was born in was born at Greenwich, England...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120154b.htm?hilite=john%3Bsulman
  • Born Greenwich
    Greenwich
    Greenwich is a district of south London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich.Greenwich is best known for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time...

     29 August 1849
  • Arrived Australia 1885
  • Died North Sydney
    North Sydney, New South Wales
    North Sydney is a suburb and commercial district on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. North Sydney is located 3 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of North Sydney...

     18 August 1934
  • Blackmann & Sulman
  • Sulman & Power
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Federation Free Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • The Armidale School
    The Armidale School
    The Armidale School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school predominantly for boys, located in Armidale, on the New England Tablelands of northern New South Wales, Australia...

     (1889)
  • The Women's College, University of Sydney (1890–94)
  • Presbyterian churches Woollahra (1889), Manly
    Manly, New South Wales
    Manly is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Manly is located 17 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of Manly Council, in the Northern Beaches region.-History:Manly was named...

     (1889–92) and Randwick
    Randwick, New South Wales
    Randwick is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Randwick is located 6 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Randwick...

     (1890)
  • Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital, Concord
    Concord, New South Wales
    Concord is a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 15 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Canada Bay....


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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
  • Born Italy 1926
  • Arrived Australia early 1960s
  • Australian Capital Territory
    Australian Capital Territory
    The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

  • Late 20th Century Organic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Dickson Library, Antill Street, Dickson
    Dickson, Australian Capital Territory
    Dickson is a suburb in the Inner North of Canberra, Australia. It is named after Sir James Dickson who was a Queensland advocate of Australian Federation and one of the founders of the Australian Constitution...

     (1964)
  • Associated Chamber of Manufacturers, Brisbane Avenue, Barton
    Barton, Australian Capital Territory
    Barton is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Barton is named after Sir Edmund Barton, Australia's first Prime Minister. Streets in Barton are named after Governors....

     (1967)
  • Apostolic Nunciature, Vancouver Street, Red Hill
    Red Hill, Australian Capital Territory
    Red Hill is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The suburb is named after the northernmost hill of the ridge to the west of the suburb. The ridge is a reserve and managed as part of the Canberra Nature Park. The hill is an element of the central Canberra design...

     (1977)
  • Lloyd Tayler http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060260b.htm
  • Sorbonne
    Sorbonne
    The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...

  • Born London 26 October 1830
  • Arrived Australia 1851
  • Died Brighton
    Brighton, Victoria
    Brighton is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Brighton had a population of 20,651...

     17 August 1900

  • Partners
    • Lewis Vieusseux
    • E W Wright
    • Frederick Fitts
    • Alfred Dunn
    • Victoria
      Victoria (Australia)
      Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

  • Victorian Academic Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Victorian Italianate
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Anglo-Dutch
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Kamesburgh, Brighton
    Brighton, Victoria
    Brighton is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Brighton had a population of 20,651...

     (1872)
  • Thyra, Brighton (1883)
  • Leighswood, Toorak
    Toorak, Victoria
    Toorak is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district located on a rise on the south side of a bend in the Yarra River. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington...

  • Rosecraddock, Caulfield
    Caulfield, Victoria
    Caulfield is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Glen Eira...

  • Cherry Chase, Brighton
  • Blair Athol, Brighton
  • Kilwinning, East St Kilda
  • St Mary's Church of England, Hotham (1860)
  • St Philip's, Collingwood
    Collingwood, Victoria
    Collingwood is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra...

     (1865)
  • Presbyterian Church, Punt Road, South Yarra
    South Yarra, Victoria
    South Yarra is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Stonnington and Melbourne...

     (1865)
  • Trinity Church, Bacchus Marsh
    Bacchus Marsh, Victoria
    Bacchus Marsh is an urban centre and suburban locality in Victoria, Australia located approximately west of Melbourne and west of Melton. The population of the urban area is estimated at over 17,000 people, while the central locality is home to 5,566 people...

     (1869)
  • Eastern Hill Fire Station
    Eastern Hill Fire Station
    Eastern Hill Fire Station is the central fire station of Melbourne, Australia, located in on the corner of Victoria Parade and Gisborne Street, opposite St Peter's, Eastern Hill, one of the highest points in the city of Melbourne...

    , Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

     (1892)
  • Florence Taylor CBE
    Florence Mary Taylor
    Florence Mary Taylor CBE was the first qualified female architect and the first woman to train as an engineer in Australia. She was also the first woman in Australia to fly in a heavier-than-air craft in 1909...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120195b.htm
  • Articled to Edmund Skelton Garton
  • Architecture Sydney Technical College
    Sydney Technical College
    The Sydney Technical College was a name used by Australia's oldest technical education institution.It began as the Sydney Mechanics' Institute in 1843...

  • Architecture Lectures Sydney University
  • Born Bedminster England 29 December 1879
  • Arrived Australia 1884
  • Died Potts Point 13 February 1969
  • J Burcham Clamp
  • George Temple-Poole
    George Temple-Poole
    George Thomas Temple-Poole was a British architect and public servant, primarily known for his work in Western Australia from 1886....

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110263b.htm
  • Born 29 May 1856 Rome, Italy
  • Arrived Australia 1885
  • Died Darlington, Western Australia
    Darlington, Western Australia
    Darlington, Western Australia, is a locality in the Shire of Mundaring on the Darling Scarp, dissected by Nyaania Creek and north of the Helena River.- Location :...

     13 February 1969
  • Western Australian government architect

  • Free Style Arts and crafts
    Arts and Crafts movement
    Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 , continuing its influence until the 1930s...

    • Perth Observatory
      Perth Observatory
      The Perth Observatory is the name of two astronomical observatories located in Western Australia.-First Perth Observatory:The original Perth Observatory was constructed in 1896 and was officially opened in 1900 by John Forrest, the first premier of Western Australia. The observatory was located at...

    • Perth Railway Station
      Perth railway station
      Perth Station including Perth Underground is the largest railway station in Perth, Western Australia, and functions as an interchange between the Transperth Trains Armadale / Thornlie, Fremantle, Joondalup, Mandurah and Midland railway lines, as well as the Transwa Australind.-History:The Victorian...

    • Jubilee Building
      Jubilee Building
      The Jubilee Building is part of the Western Australian Museum in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. It was opened in 1897 and was designed by George Temple-Poole and his 1895 successor John Grainger in the Victorian Byzantine style....

      , Perth
    • Perth Mint
      Perth Mint
      The Perth Mint is Australia's oldest currently operating mint ....

  • Ian Thomson
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • NSW Government Architect
    (1978-88)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Harry Tompkins
  • H.W & F.B Tompkins
  • Victoria, Australia
  • Intewar Commercial Palazzo
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Alexander Tzannes
    Alexander Tzannes
    Alexander Tzannes is an Australian architect. Tzannes has worked and studied in Australia and abroad in a career spanning more than 30 years...


  • Tzannes Associates
    Tzannes Associates
    Tzannes Associates is an architectural practice based in Sydney, Australia, active since 1983.The studio-based practice employs approximately 40 staff....

    • New South Wales
      New South Wales
      New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Late 20th Century Post-Modern
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Pavilion, Centennial Park
    Centennial Park, New South Wales
    Centennial Park is a large public, urban park that occupies 220 hectares in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Centennial Park is located 4 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district, in the City of Randwick...

     (1987)
  • Henwood House, Paddington
    Paddington, New South Wales
    Paddington is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Paddington is located 3 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and lies across the local government areas of the City of Sydney and the Municipality of Woollahra...

     (1988) Robin Boyd Award
    Robin Boyd Award
    The Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture is an Australian architectural prize presented by the Australian Institute of Architects since 1981....

  • House, Northbridge
    Northbridge, New South Wales
    Northbridge is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Northbridge is located 7 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Willoughby....

     (1997) Robin Boyd Award

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    • Jørn Utzon
      Jørn Utzon
      Jørn Oberg Utzon, , AC was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, Utzon became only the second person to have received such recognition for one of his works during his lifetime...

  • Born Denmark 1918
  • Lived Australia 1959-1966
  • International
  • Sydney Opera House
    Sydney Opera House
    The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...

  • RAIA Gold Medal (1973

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    • John Verge
      John Verge
      John Verge was an English architect, builder, pioneer settler of New South Wales, who migrated to Australia and pursued his career there. Verge was one of the earliest and the most important architect of the Greek Revival in Australia. He also brought more comprehensive range of Regency style than...

       http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020504b.htm
  • Born Hampshire, England 1782
  • Arrived Australia 27 December 1828
  • Died Macleay River
    Macleay River
    The Macleay River is a major river on the Mid North Coast , Australia.The headwaters of the Macleay River rise as the Gara River on the eastern side of the Northern Tablelands near Armidale and Walcha, New South Wales. From here the Chandler River, Styx River and Apsley Rivers are important...

     9 July 1861

  • Worked with
    • John Bibb
    • New South Wales
      New South Wales
      New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Old Colonial Regency
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Old Colonial Grecian
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • St James Anglican Church
    St. James Church, Sydney
    St James' Church is an Anglican church in King Street in Sydney, Australia. Consecrated on 11 February 1824, the church was designed by the transported convict architect Francis Greenway during the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie, and is part of the historical precinct of Macquarie Street...

    , vestries, King Street, Sydney
    King Street, Sydney
    King Street is today the central thoroughfare of the suburb of Newtown in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It's in this street that the residents of the area are most visible, confirming Newtown's reputation as a cosmopolitan community with a higher than average concentration of students,...

     (1833)
  • Denham Court, Denham Court (1834)
  • Camden Park
    Camden Park Estate, New South Wales
    Camden Park was a large sheep station established by John Macarthur south of Sydney near present day Camden in New South Wales, Australia. Today, part of the original estate contains the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute.- Origins :...

    , Elizabeth Macarthur
    Elizabeth Macarthur
    Elizabeth Macarthur was born in Devon, England, the daughter of provincial farmers, Richard and Grace Veale, of Cornish origin. Her father died when she was 7; her mother remarried when she was 11, leaving Elizabeth in the care of her grandfather John and friends. Elizabeth married Plymouth...

     Drive, Camden
    Camden, New South Wales
    -Education:Camden is the location of research facilities for the veterinary and agricultural schools of the University of Sydney. The local government area has two public high schools, Camden High School and Elderslie High School, as well as eight Catholic and three Anglican schools.-Culture:The...

     (1835)
  • Lyndhurst, Glebe
    Glebe, New South Wales
    Glebe is an inner-city suburb of Sydney. Glebe is located 3 km south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney, in the Inner West region....

     (1835)
  • Engehurst, Ormond Street, Paddington
    Paddington, New South Wales
    Paddington is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Paddington is located 3 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and lies across the local government areas of the City of Sydney and the Municipality of Woollahra...

     (1835, partial remains)
  • Rockwall, Rockwall Crescent, Potts Point (1835)
  • Tusculum, Manning Street, Potts Point (1836)
  • Tempe House, Princes Highway
    Princes Highway
    The Princes Highway extends from Sydney to Port Augusta via the coast through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, a distance of 1941 km or 1898 km via the former alignments of the highway ....

    , Tempe
    Tempe, New South Wales
    Tempe is a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Tempe is located 9 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Marrickville Council....

     (1836)
  • The Vineyard (later named Subiaco), Rydalmere (1836, demolished 1961)
  • Terrace house, 39 and 41 Lower Fort Street, The Rocks
    The Rocks, New South Wales
    The Rocks is an urban locality, tourist precinct and historic area of Sydney's city centre, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, immediately north-west of the Sydney central business district...

     (1936)
  • Elizabeth Bay House, Onslow Avenue, Elizabeth Bay
    Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales
    Elizabeth Bay is a harbourside suburb in eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Elizabeth Bay is located 3 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney....

    (1837)
  • Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Denham Court (1838)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Venables Vernon DSO http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120357b.htm
  • Articled to Howard Joseland
    Howard Joseland
    Howard Joseland was an English architect who migrated to Australia and pursued a successful and influential career there.-Early life:...

  • Born Hastings
    Hastings
    Hastings is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England. The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86,900....

     20 February 1877
  • Arrived Australia 3 November 1883
  • Died Warrawee 3 July 1935
  • Joseland & Vernon (1903–14)
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

     and Australian Capital Territory
    Australian Capital Territory
    The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

  • Colonel Walter Liberty Vernon VD
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120357b.htm
  • Royal Academy of Arts
  • South Kensington School of Art
  • Born High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 11 August 1846
  • Arrived Australia 3 November 1883
  • Died at Darlinghurst on 17 January 1914
  • Habershon & Pite London
  • Charles Moreing Hastings
    Hastings
    Hastings is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England. The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86,900....

  • Vernon & Wardell (1884–89)
  • NSW Government Architect
    (1890-1911)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Federation Academic Classical
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Anglo Dutch
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Free Style
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Federation Arts and Crafts
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Art Gallery of New South Wales
    Art Gallery of New South Wales
    The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...

    , main facade (1906)
  • Darlinghurst Fire Station (1910)
  • Bourke
    Bourke, New South Wales
    -Transportation:Bourke can be reached by the Mitchell Highway, with additional sealed roads from town to the north , east and south . The town is also served by Bourke Airport and has Countrylink bus service to other regional centres, like Dubbo...

     Court House, (1900)
  • Pyrmont
    Pyrmont, New South Wales
    Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Pyrmont is located 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney...

     Fire Station
  • State Library of New South Wales
    State Library of New South Wales
    The State Library of New South Wales is a large public library owned by the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in Macquarie Street, Sydney near Shakespeare Place...

    , Mitchell wing,
  • Fisher Library at the University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • Central Railway Station, Sydney
  • Major-General James Victor http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020505b.htm
  • Royal Military College
    Royal Military College, Duntroon
    The Royal Military College, Duntroon is the Australian Army's officer training establishment. It was founded at Duntroon, in the Australian Capital Territory, in 1911 and is situated on picturesque grounds at the foot of Mount Pleasant near Lake Burley Griffin, close to the Department of Defence...

  • Born London 17 March 1792
  • Arried Australia November 1842 and left December 1848
  • Died Edinburgh
    Edinburgh
    Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

     on 4 February 1864
  • Royal Engineers
    Royal Engineers
    The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers , and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army....

  • Tasmanian Board of Public Works
  • Tasmania
    Tasmania
    Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

  • Barracks Gaol, Hobart
    Hobart
    Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...

  • Convict Hospital, Campbell Street, Hobart
  • Tasmanian Government House
    Government House, Hobart
    Government House, Hobart is the home and official residence of the Governor of Tasmania, Australia.The palatial house is located on Lower Domain Road in the Queens Domain, near the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, and is the official residence of the governor of Tasmania...

    , out-buildings and cottages, Hobart

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    Architect & Education Birth, Immigration & Death Firms, Institutions & Geographical locations Architectural style Notable buildings & Awards
  • Born 1864
  • Died 1931
  • William Wardell
    William Wardell
    William Wilkinson Wardell was a Civil Engineer and Architect, notable not only for his work in Australia, the country to which he emigrated in 1858, but also for having a successful career as a surveyor, and an ecclesiastical architect in England and Scotland before his departure.In Australia,...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060380b.htm
  • Born 1823
  • Died 1899
  • B J Waterhouse OBE http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120437b.htm
  • Articled to John Spencer
  • Architecture Sydney Technical College
    Sydney Technical College
    The Sydney Technical College was a name used by Australia's oldest technical education institution.It began as the Sydney Mechanics' Institute in 1843...

  • Born Leeds, England 8 February 1876
  • Arrived Australia March 1885
  • Died Neutral Bay
    Neutral Bay, New South Wales
    Neutral Bay is a harbourside suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Neutral Bay is located 5 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council....

     21 December 1965
  • NSW Government Architect's Office
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

     (1900–08)
  • Waterhouse and Lake (1908-??)
  • Worked in association with Leslie Wilkinson
  • Director, and later Chairman, National Capital Planning and Development Committee
    National Capital Planning and Development Committee
    The National Capital Planning and Development Committee was a body of the Australian government formed in 1938 to oversee the development of Canberra. The NCPDC was to advise the Minister of the Interior to safeguard the Griffin plan and maintain high aesthetic and architectural standards worthy...

     (1938–58)
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Federation Arts and Crafts
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Mediterranean
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Georgian Revival
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Ailsa, 33 Shellcove Road, Neutral Bay
    Neutral Bay, New South Wales
    Neutral Bay is a harbourside suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Neutral Bay is located 5 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council....

     (1908)
  • Tulkiyan, 707 Pacific Highway, Gordon
    Gordon, New South Wales
    Gordon is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Gordon is located north-west of the Sydney Central Business District and is the administrative centre for the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council...

     (1913)
  • Brent Knowle, 31 Shellcove Road, Neutral Bay (1914)
  • Refectory Building, Science Road, University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

     (1924)
  • Nutcote, May Gibbs's House
    May Gibbs
    Cecilia May Gibbs MBE was an Australian children's author, illustrator, and cartoonist. She is best-known for her gumnut babies , and the book Snugglepot and Cuddlepie....

    , Neutral Bay (1925) http://www.maygibbs.com.au/default.htm
  • Charles Weatherburn
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • NSW Government Architect
    (1974-78)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • William Weaver
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • NSW Colonial Architect
    (1854-56)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Charles Webb
    Charles Webb (architect)
    Charles Webb was an architect working in Victoria, Australia during the 19th century....

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060399b.htm
  • Born 1821
  • Died 1898
  • Peter Webber
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • NSW Government Architect
    (1973-74)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Seymour Wells
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • Born Australia 1865
  • Architect, NSW Department of Public Instruction
  • NSW Government Architect
    (1927-29)
    New South Wales Government Architect
    The New South Wales Government Architect is an officer of the New South Wales government. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the state government's public building projects....

  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Conversion Covernment House Stables
    Government House, Sydney
    Government House is located in Sydney, Australia alongside the Royal Botanic Gardens, overlooking Sydney Harbour, just south of the Sydney Opera House...

     to Sydney Conservatorium of Music
    Sydney Conservatorium of Music
    The Sydney Conservatorium of Music is one of the oldest and most prestigious music schools in Australia...

     (1913)
  • Dixson Wing, State Library of New South Wales
    State Library of New South Wales
    The State Library of New South Wales is a large public library owned by the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in Macquarie Street, Sydney near Shakespeare Place...

  • Nurses' Home, Maitland
    Maitland, New South Wales
    Maitland is a city in the Lower Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia and the seat of Maitland City Council, situated on the Hunter River approximately by road north of Sydney and north-west of Newcastle...

     Hospital
  • Francis White http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060415b.htm
  • Born 1819
  • Died 1888
  • Henry White http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120523b.htm
  • Born 1876
  • Died 1952
  • Cuthbert Whitley http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160644b.htm
  • Born 1886
  • Died 1942
  • Prof Leslie Wilkinson OBE http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120554b.htm
  • Royal Academy
    Royal Academy
    The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...

  • Born New Southgate
    New Southgate
    New Southgate is a residential suburb in the south-east corner of the London Borough of Barnet and the south-west corner of the London Borough of Enfield in North London, England....

     12 October 1882
  • Arrived Australia 1918
  • Died Vaucluse
    Vaucluse, New South Wales
    Vaucluse is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Vaucluse is located north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of Waverley Council and the Municipality of Woollahra....

     20 September 1973
  • Architect, University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • Dean of Architecture, University of Sydney
  • Diocesan Architect Anglican Church Diocese of Sydney
    Anglican Church of Australia
    The Anglican Church of Australia is a member church of the Anglican Communion. It was previously officially known as the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania...

  • New South Wales
  • Inter-War Mediterranean
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Georgian Revival
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Inter-War Gothic
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Greenway, Vaucluse
    Vaucluse, New South Wales
    Vaucluse is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Vaucluse is located north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of Waverley Council and the Municipality of Woollahra....

     (1923)
  • Chemistry Building, University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

     (1923)
  • Physics Building, University of Sydney (1926)
  • House, 6 Wiston Gardens, Double Bay (1934)
    Sir John Sulman Medal
    Sir John Sulman Medal
    The Sir John Sulman Medal is a New South Wales architectural prize presented by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and was first awarded in 1932....

  • Samuel Hordern House, Bellevue Hill
    Bellevue Hill, New South Wales
    Bellevue Hill is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bellevue Hill is an affluent suburb, located 5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra....

     (1936)
  • Maiala, Warrawee (1937)
  • Greyleaves, Burradoo
    Burradoo
    Burradoo is a village south of Bowral, in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. In 2006, Burradoo had a population of 2,073 people. The village is colloquially known as Burradoo, actually...

     (1934)
  • Hazeldean, Cooma (1937)
  • Silchester, Bellevue Hill (1930)
  • St Michael's Church Complex Additions, Vaucluse (1942)
    Sir John Sulman Medal
  • RAIA Gold Medal (1960)
  • Ernest Willis http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120573b.htm
  • Born 1867
  • Died 1947
  • Ron Wilson http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160675b.htm
  • Born 1886
  • Died 1967
  • William Hardy Wilson
    William Hardy Wilson
    William Hardy Wilson was an Australian architect, artist and author. He "is regarded as one of the most outstanding architects of the twentieth century".-Early years:...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120598b.htm
  • Born Campbelltown
    Campbelltown, New South Wales
    Campbelltown is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Campbelltown is located 51 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Campbelltown.- History :Campbelltown...

     14 February 1881
  • Died Richmond
    Richmond, Victoria
    Richmond is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra...

     1955
  • Kent & Budden
  • Wilson, Neave & Berry
  • NSW, Tasmania & Victoria
  • Inter-War Georgian Revival
    Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.-Background:...

  • Eryldene Gordon
    Gordon, New South Wales
    Gordon is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Gordon is located north-west of the Sydney Central Business District and is the administrative centre for the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council...

  • Purulia Wahroonga
  • Newington College War Memorial
    Newington College
    Newington College is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Stanmore, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

     Stanmore
    Stanmore, New South Wales
    Stanmore is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Stanmore is located 6 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Marrickville Council.-History:...

  • Ku-Ring-Gai Council Chambers Gordon
    Gordon, New South Wales
    Gordon is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Gordon is located north-west of the Sydney Central Business District and is the administrative centre for the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council...

  • Domestic architecture in Australia (Published 1919)
  • Old Colonial Architecture of New South Wales and Tasmania (Published 1924)
  • Arthur Winston http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160680b.htm
  • Born 1908
  • Died 1980
  • Edward John Woods
  • Woods Bagot
    Woods Bagot
    Woods Bagot is a global design studio specialising in the design and planning of facilities across three key sectors: education and science, lifestyle, and workplace....

  • Frank Woolacott http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160696b.htm
  • Born 1903
  • Died 1968
  • Ken Wooley
  • Ancher Mortlock Murray & Woolley
  • Ancher Mortlock & Woolley
  • Woolley House, Paddington
    Paddington, New South Wales
    Paddington is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Paddington is located 3 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and lies across the local government areas of the City of Sydney and the Municipality of Woollahra...

     (1987) Robin Boyd Award
    Robin Boyd Award
    The Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture is an Australian architectural prize presented by the Australian Institute of Architects since 1981....

  • RAIA Gold Medal (1993)
  • Edmund Wright
    Edmund William Wright
    Edmund William Wright was an Australian architect, engineer and businessman born near London. He was Mayor of Adelaide in 1859.Wright was a son of Stephen Wright who may have been Master of Ordnance at the Tower of London...

     http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10500b.htm
  • Born 1824
  • Died 1888

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      Hans Rudolf Zimmerman
      Hans Rudolf Zimmerman is the architect of Australia's highest church, in the Snowy Mountains at Perisher Valley, New South Wales. The church is a Catholic 250-seat granite church completed in 1964 on a rocky knoll about 5,600 feet above sea-level. Dedicated to the memory of Pope John XXIII, it...


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