UQFL502 Stuart Mcintosh Collection

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UQFL502 Stuart McIntosh Collection

Size 1 box, 10 parcels, 5 tubes

Content Architectural drawings and sketches by Stuart McIntosh. McIntosh’s notes, photographs and research material relating to architecture projects and competitions. Includes design ideas and concept sketches for the Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane), Grand Egyptian Museum (Cairo), the World Trade Centre Memorial (New York) and King George Square (Brisbane).

Date range 1953 to 2006

Biography Stuart McIntosh graduated in architecture from Melbourne University in 1953. He commenced his career with the firm Yunken, Freeman Brothers, Griffiths and Simpson, before joining the architectural department of the English, Scottish and Australian Bank, where he established a reputation for innovation in bank architecture. In 1963, after winning the competition to design a Great Hall for the University of Queensland, McIntosh resigned his ES&A position in Melbourne and relocated to Brisbane with his family to take up the University commission, setting up in private practice with Robert Garner. A fractious relationship with the University authorities, however, culminated in his dismissal from the Great Hall project. It was a setback from which McIntosh never completely recovered. After a period away from architecture, he returned to practice but found it difficult to secure commissions. He closed his office in 1993 and, until his death in 2007, devoted most of his professional time to entering local and international design competitions.

Notes Unrestricted access The collection was rehoused in 2015 and box numbers were reallocated. Refer to the chart at the end of this listing to convert old box numbers to new numbers.

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Box 1

Folder no. Description Title Job / competition Date

Correspondence, 1 certificates, notes, sketches Interfaith sacred space competition 1996-2004

English, Scottish and Australian Bank residence in Darwin and business premises in Broken Hill; 1954, 1958, Brisbane, Malvern and Ringwood, Great Hall, 1959, 1960, University of Queensland, Ansett terminal, various 1962, 1966, 2 – 3 Photographs buildings and models 1970s

Application for unspecified project or competition; architectural course material featuring McIntosh's work; 4 advertising material 1980s

Interview questions for Stuart McIntosh with attached letter from Igea Troiani; article by Igea Troiani on Stuart McIntosh's 5 work Igea T 2004

Notes and photocopied 6 articles Bomarzo [Italy] nd

Correspondence between Stuart McIntosh and 7 Stephen Murray-Smith Steven Murray-Smith 1987-1988

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Folder no. Description Title Job / competition Date

Newspaper Cuttings, draft 8 correspondence Things of Personal Interest 1990s

Notes and newspaper 9 cuttings 1990s

10 Miscellaneous sketches

11 Newspaper cuttings

Article: 'Pneumatics of Hero 12 of Alexandria'

Documents relating to 13 design competition New Taichung City Civic Center 1995

tkts2k, Van Alan Institute, Loose 2000

King George Square brief, 3 Loose folders

Parcel 1 Miscellaneous Sketches Gloss display poster of proposed apartment block

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Display boards

Parcel no. Description No. of boards

2 Victoria Bridge, Brisbane 3

2 King George Square colour concept design layout, draft 1

2 Brisbane River Committee Sculpture Competition 4

3 Australia Prospectors and Miners Hall of Fame Competition 3

3 Australia Pleasure Garden 1

3 Macarthur Memorial 1

3 World Trade Centre Memorial Competition 1

3 Unnamed monuments 2

4 Matjala Art Museum of Estonia competition 8

Parcel 5

Item no. Description Title Job / competition Date

1 A3 sketchbook GOMA 1 Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane c2000

2 A3 sketchbook GOMA 2 Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane c2000

3 A3 sketchbook GOMA 3 Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane c2000

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Item no. Description Title Job / competition Date

4 A3 sketchbook Interfaith Interfaith Sacred Space, United Religions Initiative 2003

5 A3 sketchbook MLK1 Martin Luther King Jr National Memorial 2000

6 A3 sketchbook Mona Lisa House Mona Lisa House 1998

7 A3 sketchbook Reconciliation Place Reconciliation Place, National Memorial to the Stolen Generation, Canberra 2001

Parcel 6

Item no. Description Title Job / competition Date

1 A3 sketchbook Grand Egyptian Museum Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo 2002

2 A3 sketchbook Cairo 2 Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo 2002

3 A3 sketchbook WTC Memorial World Trade Centre Memorial, New York City 2002

4 A3 sketchbook 11 Sept 2 World Trade Centre Memorial, New York City 2002

5 A3 sketchbook 9-11 3 World Trade Centre Memorial, New York City 2002

6 A3 sketchbook Landscape 3 20/11/1996 Roma Street Park, Brisbane 1999

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Parcel 7

Item no. Description Title Job / competition Date

2 scrapbooks of newspaper and journal 1 cuttings 1955-1963

Awarded by the Illuminating Engineering Society of 2 4 award certificates Australia 1967-1970

5 photographs of 2 buildings of The English Scottish and Australian Bank, Sunshine and 3 Canberra 1955, 1960

Photograph of the interior of an unidentified 4 house nd

5 2 drawings of a crematorium nd

National Memorial to the National Memorial to the Australian Vietnam Forces. Australian Vietnam Forces, 6 Document Registration of Interest. Canberra c1989

Folder containing photocopy of McIntosh's Bachelor of Architecture certificate and documents concerning King George Square Redevelopment of King 7 redesign competition City Hall Official George Square, Brisbane 1953, 2006

Expression of Interest: Design Competition for the Redevelopment of King George Redevelopment of King 8 Document Square George Square, Brisbane 2006

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Parcel 8

Item no. Description Title Job / competition Date

Competition for the Design of Reconciliation Place in the Parliamentary Reconciliation Place, 1 Document Zone of Australia's National Capital Canberra Canberra 2001

2 A3 sketchbook Park 1 2004

3 A3 sketchbook Park 2 2004

2 A3 4 sketchbooks Small city core as landscape 1 & 2 1996

3 A3 5 sketchbooks Thoughts K332 & Polysemy 1,2 & 3 1997-1998

Parcel 9

Item no. Description Title Job / competition Date

1 A3 sketchbook Aboriginal Museum 2 unidentified 1993

2 2 A3 sketchbooks Queensland C.C., K332 & Polysemy, 4 & 5 1998-1999

3 A3 sketchbook Square Redevelopment of King George Square, Brisbane 2005

4 A3 sketchbook National AIDS Memorial National Aids Memorial, San Francisco 2004

Item no. Description Title Job / competition Date

5 A3 sketchbook 2 Buzzards Bay / King George Square 1 Redevelopment of King George Square, Brisbane 2005

6 A3 sketchbook House 9 unidentified 1996

Parcel 10

Folder no. Description Title Job / competition Date

Newspaper cuttings and notes on 1 various architectural topics 1990s

Notes on ideas for the Gallery of 2 Modern Art GOMA Notes Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane c1990s

3 Design sketches, various Old Sketches nd

Interior Sketches, Perspectives, Large 4 Design sketches, various Model Photos 1998

5 Drawings and notes on Parthenon Perspectives nd

Plans and sketches of Grand 6 Egyptian Museum Plans & Sketches GEM Grand Egyptian Museum nd

Report on Lang Park redevelopment, Brisbane Builds a Future: Lang Park: Redevelopment of Lang Park, Loose Item 1991 Design for the 21st Century Brisbane 1991

Plans and drawings

Tube no. Project / Competition Notes No. of Drawings Date

1 National Aids Memorial, Designs created for competition for AIDS memorial in San Remembrance Place Francisco 15 2004

2 Buzzard's Bay Village Park, USA 34 2005

3 A Pleasure Garden 10 nd

3 McIntosh residence, Rome Street South, Yeronga Plans for McIntosh family home. 3 1992

3 Designs created for competition for King George Square King George Square redevelopment 4 2006

3 GOMA Designs created for competition for Gallery of Modern Art 4 c2000

3 Martin Luther King Jr National Designs created for competiton for Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Memorial, Washington DC 2 2000

4 Railway Bridge Sketches for the Railway Bridge, Brisbane 2 nd

4 Perspectives 6 copies of a drawing of perspective view 6 nd

5 Interfaith Sacred Garden 4 c2003

Select bibliography of publications featuring McIntosh ‘Australian houses’, Australian architecture today, Sep 1960 pp15 – 19 ‘Outstanding architecture – 1960’, Australian architecture today, Jan 1961, p25 ‘Modernism recognised – former ES&A Bank, Malvern’, Trust news Victoria, vol 26 no 6 June 1998, p6 McNamara, Cameron, Merivale Bridge, Brisbane : Cameron McNamara, [1980?], p28

Box number conversion chart

Old box number New box number Old box number New box number Old box number New box number

1 Parcel 5 5 Parcel 9 Parcel 1 Parcel 1

2 Parcel 6 6 Parcel 10 Parcel 2 Parcels 2 – 4

3 Parcel 7 7 Box 1 Tubes 1 – 5 same

4 Parcel 8 8 Box 1