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Acton 9, 14N.26, 17N.43, 41, 95N.60, 116N.46, 161, 163 Ada big-business 56 Index British 13 classification 48, 49, 50, 51 contemporary 90 Acton 9, 14n.26, 17n.43, 41, 95n.60, criticism of 49, 60, 75 116n.46, 161, 163 domestic 22, 24, 47, 49, 52, 75, 78, Ada, Gordon 37 88, 95, 99, 103, 108, 122, 148, 170 aesthetics 26, 38–9, 47, 54, 78, 83, 93, experimental 51, 52, 54, 189 113, 115, 118, 121–3, 125, 166, 168, history 77 189, 191 in Canberra 20, 24, 38, 47, 75, 78, affordable housing 51–2, 83, 98, 100, 190 95, 103, 126 Ainslie 1, 105 modern 28, 36, 55, 60, 61, 77, 87, Albers, Josef 98, 192 91, 98, 102, 104, 189, 190, 191 Albert Hall 102, 141 New Zealand 31 Albert, Adrien 16, 17, 21, 36n.104 overlap with science 4–5, 7, 16, 48, Ancher, Mortlock and Woolley 37 56, 63–6, 86–8, 100, 109, 116, 127, Aranda 1, 37, 40 131–59, 166–9, 171–2, 185, 186, architectural 187, 189–93 advice 14, 16n.35 postwar recovery 56 aesthetics 26 regressive style 25 commissions 38 see also Australian architecture, competition 11 names of individual styles, typology culture 28 Architecture and Arts 38, 66, 147 design 27, 189, 190 Arts and Crafts style 18, 60, 67n.63 discourse 46, 48, 61, 63, 64, 66, 90, Australian Academy of Science 25, 27, 100, 166, 169 101, 114, 132, 165, 172, 185, 192 firms 14, 40, 102, 103 Adolph Basser Library vii, viii, 5n.7 fraternity 45 building 19, 25, 26, 27, 28, 34, 38, language and form 39, 99, 104, 105, 103, 109, 110n.26, 115, 116n.46, 170, 171, 190 117, 163, 164, 170–2, 192 patronage 38, 102 Australian practice 104, 116 architecture 46, 48n.10, 49, 64, 66, precedents 123, 125 67, 78n.2, 89, 90, 99, 190, 191 publications 54, 67, 88 buildings and climate 41, 64, style 122, 124, 128, 133, 191 65n.56, 66, 70n.71, 89, 92, 93n.52, tastes 5, 7 122, 134n.10, 191 zeitgeist 51 culture 18, 90 architecture 11, 28, 34, 41, 89, 98, 100, design 18 113, 114, 115, 118, 146, 147, 190, landscape 33, 34, 37 193 Australian Home Beautiful 19, 61, 64n.56, and ‘counterpoint’ 80, 94–6 78n.2, 107, 111, 119 and environmental issues 62 Australian House and Garden 24–5 and gender 65, 72, 74 Australian National University, The attitudes towards 5, 77, 122, 166, (ANU) 3, 4, 19, 20, 25, 101, 138, 171 182, 192 ‘Australian’ 67, 99, 122 buildings 24, 35, 39, 52, 116n.46 207 Experiments in Modern Living Design Unit 19 Boyd, Robin 21, 38, 48, 54, 55, 74, 77, 89, formation of 7–25, 55 93, 101, 145, 146, 189 Rock Mechanics Laboratory 17 and Australian climate 66, 67, 68 staff and faculty 23, 31, 38, 43, 62, and Fenner House 43–75, 118, 147 66, 133, 142, 146 and Manning Clark House 22, 43n.3, staff housing 14, 15, 17, 37, 132, 141 52 University House 17, 18, 20, 26n.73, and Seidler 49, 50, 52 38, 146, 147 and Vasey Crescent Group 101–28, see also Canberra University College, 191 John Curtin School of Medical clients 21, 36, 52 Research criticisms by 46–7, 49, 60, 66, 75 evolution of style 51, 52, 89 houses 1, 101 Balinese style 47 publications 18, 22, 46, 49, 50, 60, Barnard House (Campbell) 38 66 Barry Drive 162, 173 response to Canberra 53, 67 Bauhaus School 26, 83, 88, 98 see also Grounds, Romberg and Boyd Baur, Erwin 167, 168 Breakspear House (Clontarf) 83 Bayne, Oscar 1n.2, 25–6, 161, 163 Breuer, Marcel 49, 50n.21, 51, 52, 65, 66, Belconnen 162 72, 88, 89, 90, 91, 98, 99, 100, 189 Benjamin House (Deakin) 38, 39 Bunning and Madden 4n.6, 23 binuclear plan 22, 43, 49–52, 65, 66, 72, Bunning, Walter 64n.56, 67, 109 75, 78n.2, 89, 92, 189 Butler, Walter 67 Birch House (Yarralumla) 23, 24 143 Birch, Sir Arthur 3n.4, 4n.6, 23, 24, 36n.104 C. S. Daley Architecture Award 24, 178 Bischoff House (Griffith) 147 Californian bungalow style 46 Bischoff, Frederick Theodore (‘Theo’) 1, Californian Case Study Houses 72 36, 37n.106, 38, 71, 131–3, 143–52, Campbell 1, 4n.6, 17, 38, 39, 81n.10, 101, 156, 159, 161, 165, 177–80, 182n.72, 102, 115, 133n.6, 133n.7, 143, 148, 184, 185, 192 149, 161, 162, 173, 182, 191 Bischoff, Phoebe 146, 156 Canberra Times, The 1, 3, 4, 102, 133, 143 Black Mountain 22, 41, 134n.12, 145 Canberra University College 22 Black Mountain Laboratories (CSIRO) 40, cantilevering 13, 68, 81, 88n.29, 104, 41, 95, 114, 116n.46, 182 118, 119, 123, 149 Blakers House (Campbell) 101, 104, 105, Carlingford (NSW) 84 120n.58 Chain, Ernst 10–11, 88 see also Vasey Crescent Group Chifley, Ben 7, 8, 9, 10 Blakers, Catherine 105, 119n.57 Christchurch (NZ) 28, 29, 30, 32, 161, Blakers, Gordon 102, 103, 106, 107, 127 168, 181, 186 Bland House (Coogee) 84, 85, 91n.42 Clark, Dymphna 22, 43n.2, 52, 43n.2, 52 Blondel, Jacques Francois 48n.12, 64n.52 Clark, Manning 3n.4, 4n.6, 22, 43n.2, 52, Boardman House (Forrest) 40 101 Boyd, Arthur 2, 101 see also Manning Clark House classical style 25, 95 208 Index climate 34, 40, 41, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 75, Dickson, Bertram 95 80n.8, 92, 113n.36, 122, 134n.10, Duffield, Geoffrey 134, 135 136, 191 see also Australian—buildings and climate, solar orientation, sunlight, Eccles, Sir John (‘Jack’) 3n.4, 20, 21, 22, penetration of 25, 36n.104, 41, 73, 192 Clunies-Ross, Ian 33, 41, 181 Elizabethan style 46 Collard, Max 17 Ennor House (Red Hill) 1n.2, 20 colour 37, 47, 61, 62, 67, 73, 74, 80n.8, Ennor, Arnold (‘Hugh’) 16, 20, 21, 23, 81, 82, 96, 98, 107–12, 136, 137, 36n.104, 41 149, 159, 170, 171, 173, 178 Erindale 156 Commonwealth Experimental Building Europe 36, 56, 91, 93, 100 Station (CEBS) 64n.56, 66, 86, 191 European modernism 31, 81n.9, 88, 89, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial 90, 190 Research Organisation (CSIRO) Evatt, Dr Herbert Vere (‘Doc’) 7 3, 4, 19, 25, 28, 33, 34, 36, 38, 40, 64n.56, 71, 77, 87, 101, 114, 116n.46, 118, 145, 161, 162n.1, 163, Falk House (Aranda) 40 181, 182 Federal Capital Advisory Committee Coombs, Herbert Cole (‘Nugget’) 7, 8, 9, (FCAC) 135 10, 11, 33, 36, 41, 162n.1 Federal Capital Commission (FCC) 4n.6, Copland, Lady 15 95n.59, 95n.60, 135, 136n.17 Copland, Sir Douglas 15, 16, 41 Fenner House (Red Hill) 4n.6, 5, 43–76, Council for Scientific and Industrial 79n.6, 98, 99, 109, 118, 125, 147, Research (CSIR) 8, 33, 95 189, 191 ‘counterpoint’, see architecture—and Fenner, Charles 48, 62 ‘counterpoint’ Fenner, Frank 3n.4, 16, 21, 36, 37, 41, Curtin 1, 37, 38, 133 48, 62, 71, 73, 74, 98, 102, 147n.57, 168, 189, 191 Firth, Cedric 31 Daley, Charles 14, 24 Firth, Raymond 9, 11, 31 Dalheim Constructions 110, 111 Fleming, Alexander 11, 88 Darwinism 64, 114, 166n.19 Florey, Sir Howard 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, Deakin 1, 4n.6, 36n.105, 37, 38, 40, 43, 16, 17, 20, 35, 36, 41, 62, 75, 88 78, 132, 133n.7, 138, 141, 142, 158 Forrest 1, 4n.6, 22, 37, 40, 73n.84, Dedman, John 9, 33n.94 116n.46, 147, 165 demolition of significant houses vii, 1, Frankel House (Campbell) 4n.6, 5, 39, 41, 20n.51, 37n.109, 47, 85, 98, 192 133n.6, 161–87, 191, 192 Department of Post-War Reconstruction first house 1n.2, 162 (Commonwealth) 7, 9, 162n.1 Frankel, Margaret 29, 30, 31, 38, 162, Department of the Interior 163, 168, 169, 171, 172n.38, 173, (Commonwealth) 19, 20, 54, 102, 176, 177n.49, 178, 181, 185, 186, 103, 106, 115, 138, 152 187, 192 Department of Works (Commonwealth) Frankel, Mathilde (‘Tilli’) 28, 29, 30, 20, 135, 145, 149n.65 32n.90 209 Experiments in Modern Living Frankel, Sir Otto 3n.4, 4n.6, 25, 26–8, 29, Gropius, Walter 26, 62, 78, 86, 87, 88, 89, 30–4, 38–42, 78, 101, 102, 162–73, 90, 91, 99, 100, 169 176–8, 181, 182, 185–87, 191, 192 Grounds, Betty 109, 110n.26, 126 Freeman House (Deakin) 38 Grounds, Romberg and Boyd 4, 27, 61, functionalists 51 70n.71, 71, 101, 103, 107, 113, 115, functionality 31, 35, 36, 44, 50, 59, 62, 120, 121, 126, 146, 147, 165 64, 72, 78, 84, 93, 95, 100, 102, 118, Grounds, Sir Roy 15, 21, 25–6, 27, 34, 39, 122, 145, 177, 182, 186, 189–91 40–2, 75, 145, 146, 148, 149, 170, 173, 190, 191, 192 and Frankel 39, 170–2 gardens 23n.65, 54, 106, 107, 117, 128, and Frankel House 161–7, 171, 173– 142, 145, 149, 150, 151, 154, 156, 4, 175–80, 182–3, 185–7 170, 178, 179, 181, 182 and Philip House 41, 101–28, 191 Garran 38 houses 1, 39–40, 170, 183 Gascoigne House (Pearce) 5, 131–59, 161 see also Grounds, Romberg and Boyd see also Residence 19 Gunn, Graeme 70n.71, 102n.1 Gascoigne, Hester 140 Gascoigne, Martin 140, 142, 144, 154, 157 Hancock House 20 Gascoigne, Rosalie 131, 132, 133, 136–45, Hancock, Courtney and Renfree 38 149, 151, 152, 154–9, 192 Hancock, William (‘Keith’) 9, 13, 17, Gascoigne, Sidney (‘Ben’) 3n.4, 131, 132, 23n.62, 36n.104, 38, 41 133, 136, 137, 138, 142, 143, 144, Hannan House (Red Hill) 38 145, 149, 150, 151, 153, 155, 158, Haseler, Tom 20, 73 192 heating 41, 43n.3, 66, 69, 91, 92, 93, 94, Gascoigne, Thomas (‘Toss’) 114n.40, 99, 100, 118, 119, 120, 138 133n.7, 140, 149n.63, 155 see also insulation Geller House (I and II) 49, 51, 52, 72n.81, Heyden House (Miranda) 83 99 historical style 4, 40, 46, 54, 75, 123, 124, gender, see architecture—and gender 125, 191 Georgian style 40, 122, 123, 135, 149 Hohnen, Ross 37, 38n.112, 52, 53 Giedion, Sigfried 35n.102, 54n.28, 90, Hughes 15 91n.38, 100 Giurgola, Romaldo (‘Aldo’) 25 Griffin, Walter Burley 75, 126 insulation 65, 66, 90, 121, 138 Griffing House (Campbell) 4n.6, 39, 101, acoustic 185 102n.1, 104–5, 110, 111, 120n.58, see also heating, temperature, 121 thermal see also Vasey Crescent Group International Congress for Modern Griffing, Bruce 4n.6, 39, 102, 103, Architecture (CIAM) 9 125n.77 International Style modernism 49, 51, 56 Griffing, Penny 39, 102, 103n.6, 110, 112 Griffiths, Candida 103n.2, 113, 115, 119, 123n.72, 125, 127, 192 jazz style 46 Griffiths, Colin 78n.2, 83, 84, 85, 86, 89, Jelinek, Alex 38 93, 94 210 Index John Curtin School of Medical Research Narrabundah 37 4, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 35,
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