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Rmit Design Archives Journal Vol 10 Nº 1 | 2020 Architecture RMIT DESIGN ARCHIVES JOURNAL | VOL 10 Nº 1 | ARCHITECTURE | VOL JOURNAL RMIT DESIGN ARCHIVES 10 Nº 1 RMIT DESIGN ARCHIVES JOURNAL VOL 10 Nº 1 | 2020 ARCHITECTURE RDA_Journal_22_10.1_Cover.indd 1 7/7/20 9:43 am Contributors Roger Benjamin is a professor of art history at the University of Sydney. His principal research fields are Orientalist visual culture, and the art of Henry Matisse. Peter Downton is an emeritus professor of RMIT University where, over aeons, he filled manifold research and teaching roles including foundation head of the then School of Architecture and Design. Harriet Edquist is professor of architectural history, RMIT University and RMIT Design Archives. Dr Stuart King is a senior lecturer in architectural design and history at the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, and a member of the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage. Dr Michael Spooner is a lecturer in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University. RDA_Journal_22_10.1_Cover.indd 2 7/7/20 9:43 am RMIT DESIGN ARCHIVES JOURNAL VOL 10 Nº 1 | 2020 ARCHITECTURE VOL 10 Nº 1 ARCHITECTURE Journal Editor Assistant Editorial Board 2020 Harriet Edquist Editor Suzie Attiwill rmit University Ann Carew Michael Bogle Sydney, nsw Mauro Baracco rmit University Design Nanette Carter Swinburne University letterbox.net.au Liam Fennessy rmit University Christine Garnaut University of South Australia Philip Goad University of Melbourne Brad Haylock rmit University Robyn Healy rmit University Andrew Leach University of Sydney Catherine Moriarty Brighton, uk Michael Spooner rmit University Laurene Vaughan rmit University CONTENTS 04 06 30 50 Editorial 46 Little Latrobe Intersecting identities A studio for Lina Harriet Edquist Street: the office of in Geoffrey Woodfall’s Bryans: Alex Jelinek Edmond & Corrigan Woolnorth Homestead, at Erin Street Richmond Michael Spooner 1969–70 Roger Benjamin Stuart King Contact We acknowledge the people of Cover Inside Cover Below [email protected] the eastern Kulin Nations on Section View Peter Dowton, Mid-semester whose unceded lands we conduct 46 Little Latrobe Street Hand-drafted Flow presentation in the office www.rmit.edu.au/designarchives our business and we respectfully Image by Michael Chart of Bachelor of studio of no. 46, RMIT acknowledge their Ancestors and Spooner and William Architecture Degree, Bachelor of Architectural Elders, past and present. Bennie, 2019 RMIT Department Design studio Babylon, of Architecture, led by Michael Spooner. issn 1838-7314 | Published by rmit Photocopy in Peter Photograph byMichael Design Archives, rmit University. Downton Collection Spooner, 2019. Text © rmit Design Archives, rmit (detail) University and individual authors. This Journal is copyright. Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means without the prior permission of the publisher. 62 74 Frederick Romberg’s Antecedents, Aspirations, Diagrams and work for the Lutheran Documents: a speculative memoir of the Church of Australia incubation, production and operation of 1954–62 the 1985 rmit Bachelor of Architecture Harriet Edquist Degree Peter Downton EDITORIAL ARCHITECTURE 4 rmit design archives journal Vol 10 Nº 1 (2020) This issue of the RMIT Design Archives Journal brings together diverse essays on Melbourne post-war and more recent architecture and architectural education. It is bookended by first-person narratives that in contrasting ways reflect on architectural education at RMIT over a 35-year period. Michael Spooner opens with an investigation of Edmond Stuart King’s essay is broadly conceived, spanning the 1. Philip Goad and Lisa Marie and Corrigan’s office in Little La Trobe Street which was the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ activities of one Daunt, “Constructing site not only of the architects’ labour but also of Corrigan’s corporation, the Van Diemen’s Land Company in Tasmania faith: Postwar religious teaching. Using research devices that are both empirical founded in 1825, and its Victorian agents Alan and Blyth buildings in Australia” ArchitectureAU, and creative, Spooner offers a new way of communicating Ritchie. It is in this historical context that he positions November, 4, 2019, architecture. Spurred on by the shock of entering the offices Geoffrey Woodfall’s Woolnorth homestead, deftly spinning accessed June 16, 2020, vacated after the death of Peter Corrigan in 2016, Spooner around this architectural object the threads of colonial https://architectureau. com/articles/constructing- sets himself the task of reanimating the space before it is and postcolonial Tasmanian histories, dynastic ambition faith/. lost to history; it is indeed a heritage project. Corralling and architectural form. The latter is important for, while Opposite his memories as well as those of others who worked there, Woodfall’s work has been discussed in terms of Melbourne’s Frederick Romberg, he brings together formal architectural analyses of the Wrightian legacy, this is the first major architectural study architect, Grounds Romberg & Boyd, Holy building’s modernist lineage, a first-person account of of one of his key buildings that includes a close analysis Trinity Lutheran Church, moving through the space, a sort of animated architectural of its spatial and tectonic form and Woodfall’s “increasing working drawings, 1960, section, analysis of the architects’ design process in forming rationalisation of space, structure and construction”. RMIT Design Archives, Frederick Romberg the interiors and, a reanimation of the space through King thus draws Woodfall out of the historiographical niche architectural studios he has conducted there. This text is in which he has rather languished and placed him firmly accompanied by a set of remarkable drawings carried out in important architectural discourses of the late 1960s, by Spooner, Jack Murray and William Bennie; plans, including that of “regionalism”. Roger Benjamin’s recovery sections and four ‘capriccios’ which are dense compendia of an almost unknown work by Czech émigré architect of the research underpinning the text. Peter Downton, by Alex Jelinek foregrounds the architect’s relationship with contrast, consults his own memory, the recollections of Melbourne painter and client Lina Bryans and her role in others and various notes and diagrams to put together promoting Jelinek’s architectural practice, through her “a speculative memoir” of the 1985 RMIT Architecture family and other connections. While Jelinek’s Benjamin course which, I must confess, I particularly admired. house in ACT is a celebrated example of experimental Downton and Tom Emodi wrote a proposal for a new modernism, the small studio that he designed for Bryans architectural course in 1982, and after development and in Richmond, which still exists, has never been published. refinement by the architecture staff it was operational by It is in its own way, original and striking and surprisingly first semester 1985. Downton’s article, like Spooner’s, contemporary, especially in the way the architect exists as a first-person textual account, but also as a set distinguishes his new work from the Victorian mansion of illustrations, the alluring 1985 flow chart for the course to which it is attached. With access to correspondence being a magisterial pedagogical diagram. Downton’s act between Jelinek and Bryans and photographs from the of historical recovery and reconceptualisation affirms time of their occupation of the house, Benjamin offers a particular view of the university’s role in student an intimate account of the studio’s creation. education. It was an experiment in student-focussed design Finally, Harriet Edquist’s essay on Frederick Romberg, pedagogy where each student could, and did, design their delivered at a conference on religious architecture convened own pathway through the course offerings, negotiating at Melbourne School of Design in 2018, brings to attention core and elective subjects to suit their needs. The course the architect’s work for the Lutheran community in unfortunately did not survive the rigours of RMIT Victoria, ACT and Northern Territory. Through this bureaucracy for more than a few years. It lives on, however, case study the impact of religious communities on the as an elusive and compelling idea whose day might come development of Australian modernism can be seen as again through digital means. “a pivotal component in the construction of culture and The three internal essays in this collection also have some community in rural and suburban expansion”.1 Each of common characteristics. Each focuses on one architectural the five essays published here is richly supported by practice during the 1950s and 1960s and foregrounds the archival evidence, relying for its argument on maps, agency of the client - corporate, personal and institutional – drawings, diagrams, correspondence and fallible, in the design process. but potent, memories. Harriet Edquist, editor 5 rmit design archives journal Vol 10 Nº 1 (2020) 46 Little Latrobe Street: the office of Edmond & Corrigan peer reviewed Michael Spooner essay abstract Conrad Hamann begins his preface to Cities of Hope Much has been written about Building 8 and its Rehearsed/Remembered, the monograph on the Melbourne contribution to Australian architectural discourse including architectural practice of Edmond & Corrigan, describing
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