HOLLYWOOD’S EARLY INFLUENCES
Between the first and second world wars, Australia’s high-end architecture was strongly influenced by exotic scenery from Hollywood’s accelerating movie industry.
DARK EMU AND WILLIAM DAWES
What do we really know today about the origins of Australian architecture? It’s a quandary for historians because no precolonial images seem to exist of structures built by the first settlers.
ARCHITECTS BEFORE GREENWAY
Historians of Australian architecture typically celebrate the convict forger Francis Greenway as Australia’s first architect and Governor Arthur Phillip’s residence as Australia’s first work of architecture
PIONEERS OF MODERN FLAT ROOFS
It seems bizarre to imagine Cremorne as a crucible of radical architecture. But some of the 20th century’s first flat-roofed houses were built around this Sydney harbour district
DIGITAL DYNAMICS 2001–2020
After 2000, many Australian architects joined an international surge of neo-Mannerism. This was a period of intense focus on ‘non-standard’ forms,
INTERNATIONAL CROSSFLOWS 1976–2000
Australian architecture suddenly began to excite foreigners during the late 20th century—but it was not a consistent phenomenon before 1988, when the