Australian Architecture : A history.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Davina.

Contributor:

George Allen & Unwin Ltd., commissioning body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

St Leonards, New South Wales : Allen & Unwin, 2022.

System Details:

text file EPUB 158.5MB

Summary:

A comprehensive narrative history of building and design styles in Australia, from traditional Aboriginal gunyahs; to the local interpretations of northern hemisphere trends; to the sustainable, climate sensitive and high-tech constructions of the 21st century. From First Nations gunyahs and First Fleet huts to 21st century eco-pavilions and skyscrapers, Davina Jackson surveys the evolution of architecture in Australia. Dr Jackson explores how early colonial building designers like James Bloodworth, Francis Greenway and John Lee Archer interpreted classical European styles using local stone and timber. She examines how medieval and Renaissance monuments influenced leading architects during the 19th century, until the fresh winds of modernism and demands for a unique Australian style took over in the 20th century, with environmental challenges and technological innovations driving change in recent years. Over two and a half centuries, our architects and builders have responded to the fierce Australian sun with verandas, porticos, colonnades, screens and Asian-inspired shade pavilions. Jackson explores these and other distinctive aspects of Australian design, why gold-boom architecture consistently impressed Victorian visitors, and the achievements of modern luminaries like Walter and Marion Griffin, Harry Seidler, Jorn Utzon, John Andrews, Glenn Murcutt and John Wardle. Illustrated throughout, Australian Architecture traces our distinctive and internationally acclaimed domestic, commercial and institutional buildings, with overviews of the main design influences and key examples to visit. This is the essential guide for designers, architects, students and anyone interested in the story of Australia's unique and fascinating architecture. 'Comprehensive, fascinating and inspiring' - Tim Ross, presenter of ABC TV's Designing a Legacy 'Davina Jackson delights with characteristic clarity' - Peter Murray OBE, Curator-in-Chief, New London Architecture 'Gleams with insights into the buildings that shape our lives.' - Emeritus Professor Grace Karskens, author of The Colony 'Long overdue' - Luigi Rosselli, award-winning architect 'An impressive and exhaustive survey' - Karen McCartney, author of Iconic Australian Houses 'A must read for every lover of Australian design.' - Raj Nandan, Chairman and CEO, Indesign Media Asia/Pacific

Contents:

Cover

About the Author

ALso By Davina Jackson

Title

Contents

Introduction

01 Simple Structures Prehistory-1799

First Australian peoples

Britain's invasion

Clarifying Aboriginal structures

Colonial tents and huts

Local building materials

First Government House

Designing a new Albion

Developing Norfolk Island

Developing Rose Hill (Parramatta)

Empty huts and survival stresses

Bloodworth the brick master

Firmer fortifications

Looking for land grants

Governor Grose's verandas

Millhouses and windmills

Early entertainment venues

Sydney's first tower

Burning down the church

Building hospitality venues

Signals of architectural gentrification

VISIT &gt

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Old Government House, Parramatta

02 Transferring elegant manners 1800-1837

Colonial commercial infrastructure

Napoleon's spies survey sydney's buildings

New settlements

Struggles to build durable structures

Rum rebels

Meehan's survey

Governor macquarie's architecture ideals

Building a new era

Introducing greenway

Macquarie's other architects

Going gothick

British objections to building excesses

Macquarie's architects under new leaders

Cautious spending on necessary structures

Planning newcastle as a coal port

Land quests north and south

Building more convict camps

Tasmania's colonial architects

Finding australia felix and founding melbourne

Free settlers at the swan river and south australia

Light's adelaide plan

Sydney's 1830s entrepreneurs and architects

Charles darwin's views from the beagle

Governor bourke's building revival

Influences &gt

georgian and victorian

50 &gt

Campbell town, tasmania

03 Early victorian expansions 1838-1850

Launching victoria's reign

Early victorian architectural styles.

Planning a new government house

Regulating architecture

Sydney's early terrace houses

Surges of churches

Next generation architects

Updating port jackson

Mid-century streetscapes

Edmund blacket and pugin's true principles

Other colonies emerge

Norfolk island's second settlement

Tensions in van diemen's land

Developing melbourne

Opening moreton bay to free settlers

Adelaide's early civic structures

Architecture on the threshold

Visit &gt

beehive corner, adelaide

04 Rushes of progress 1851-1880

From paucity to productivity

Buildings for education

English inspirations for australian churches

Victorian government architects and planners

Interpreting the polychrome controversy

Melbourne's gold-boom commercial architects

Novel melbourne entertainment venues

Gold towns on the rise

Imported kit buildings

Great sydney architects: blacket and barnet

Sydney's new centres of culture

American iconoclast horbury hunt

Tasmanian transitions

Developing queensland's potential

South australia's early architects

Convict constructs in western australia

A colonial village at palmerston-port darwin

Promoting australia's progress

town hall, perth

05 Connecting the nation 1881-1900

Expanding infrastructure

Institutes for barnacles and burglars

European or authentic architecture?

Oriental turns

Gentlemen's clubs

Designing 'marvellous melbourne'

Sydney's leisure magnets

New heights for commercial premises

Barnet, wardell and vernon in new south wales

Schools for secular education

Public buildings in victoria

Town halls

Metropolitan fire stations

Upgrading the markets

Colonial architects in queensland, south australia and western australia

Perth's leading commercial architects.

Shocking red roofscapes

Eclectic concepts for mansions and villas

Queensland's climate constructs

Two new english church architects in hobart

South australian advances

Western australia's belated boom

Designing australia's federation

rialto block, melbourne

early and mid-20th century modern

06 Architecture after federation 1901-1920

Debating a national capital

Cleansing squalid slums

Engineering transport infrastructure

Designing fresh-air cities

Post-federation architectural shifts

Nostalgic art nouveau

Educating future professionals

Pioneer women architects

Imported designs for australia's capital

Garden suburbs

Sydney's flat-roofed federation houses

Bring on the bungalows

Refining the queenslander

Government architects

Commerce on the high-rise

Australia's first picture theatres

Stacks of flats

Hail professor wilkinson

st brigid's church, brisbane

07 Interwar interpretations 1921-1945

Interwar suburbs

Swathes of standard bungalows

Building canberra's institutions and suburbs

The griffins' post-canberra projects

War memorials

Designs for cars

Spanish mission and mediterranean themes

Fantastic cinemas

Moderne mansions

Interwar blocks of flats

New materials and construction systems

Interwar functionalists

Modern commercial and government buildings

Functional moderne hospitals

Education, research and communications

Wartime infrastructure

Imagining new living styles after the war

old parliament house, canberra

08 Post-war modernity 1946-1975

Designing the united nations complex in new york

Post-war reconstruction policies

Emergency shelters and small homes

Desert conditions

Influxes of emigrés.

Architecture in the late 1940s

Snowy mountains hydro-electric scheme

Genesis of a megadeveloper

The seidler tsunami

Daring modern residences

Sydney school

Brutalism

Government modernism

Modernist churches

Catenary concepts

Commercial buildings

Tourism, travel and leisure architecture

Conservation reactions against modern destructions

'Designer' project homes and villages

High-rise home units

Car parks

Education and communications

Sydney opera house

Metric conversion

circular quay, sydney

late modern and digital design

09 International crossflows 1976-2000

Brisbane's riverbank rescues

Darling harbour's cultural revolution

History versus visions

Hospitality magnets

Travel halls

Expressive embassies

Australia's hilltop parliament

Exclusive and expressive houses

Public housing

Sophisticated scenarios for apartments

Education buildings

City towers and landmarks

Indigenous pavilions

Halls of worship

Professional and technology transitions

Sydney olympics

bowali visitor centre, kakadu national park

10 Digital dynamics 2001-2020

Combating climate change

Green-star office buildings

Federation square

Cultural and leisure architecture

Architectures of conciliation

Women architects ascend to administration

Reviewing architectural education

Educational buildings

Sports and health facilities

Heritage revisions

Urban regenerations

Hospitality destinations

Apartment buildings

Splendid and small houses

Pastoral sheds

Art by architects

Secure compounds for overseas diplomats

Australian architects abroad

Forecasting futures

museum of old and new art, hobart

Acknowledgements

Image credits

Abbreviations.

Notes

Selected reading

Index

Copyright.

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ISBN:

9781761063565

OCLC:

1293918889