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YOUNG, Gordon RESEARCH COLLECTION Architecture Museum, University of South Australia YOUNG, Gordon SERIES 173, 174, 176, 189, 191, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 243, 244, 289, 304 Gordon Young was a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the South Australian Institute of Technology (SAIT, later University of South Australia (UniSA) where he founded and organised the South Australian Centre for Settlement Studies. Young began his career in architecture in the United Kingdom. From 1944 to 1947 he was articled to Mr Dobson Chapman and Associates, regional planners, architects and surveyors, while studying architecture at the University of Manchester. After graduating in 1949 he became an architectural associate with A.R. Johnson and Associates in Manchester where he designed government housing and small industrial buildings. He worked as an architectural assistant at RA Risley between 1950 and 1956 and then moved to Adelaide where he worked in the Architect-in-Chief’s Department designing high schools and teachers’ colleges. From 1959 to 1960 he undertook postgraduate research at the French Ministry of Construction and was awarded a French Government Diploma in Architecture. In 1960 he was appointed Lecturer in Architecture and Building at the School of Architecture, SAIT, Senior Lecturer in 1970. He continued his architectural work, designing an alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre at Port Adelaide (1970–75), a medical centre at the University of Adelaide (1983) and an orthopaedic clinic at the Wakefield Medical Centre, Adelaide (1991). In 1976 Young and Ian Harmstorf, Senior Lecturer in History at the Adelaide College of Advanced Education, were awarded a National Estate grant to study patterns of German settlement in the Barossa Valley. This unique association between the two educational institutions developed into the South Australian Centre for Settlement Studies (SACSS) in 1982 with Young as the inaugural director of research. Further grants from the Australian Heritage Commission supported studies of the Adelaide Hills settlements of Hahndorf, Lobethal and Birdwood and their surrounding areas. Young and members of the Centre published numerous heritage survey reports, monographs and research papers as well as gave papers at local and international conferences. Young was elected Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1950, and is a member of Australian ICOMOS and of the Vernacular Architecture Group of the United Kingdom. He has served on the Council of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (SA Chapter) and Chairman of its Historic Matters Committee; he was elected Fellow in 1970. He was Chairman of the Civic Trust of South Australia. After his retirement from SAIT in 1987 Young continued to direct the SACSS until its closure in 1989. He was a Visiting Fellow at Flinders University from 1987 to 1991 giving lectures in nineteenth-century architecture to visual arts and archaeology students. SOURCES Papers of Gordon Young, Architecture Museum, University of South Australia. Page 1 http://www.unisa.edu.au/Business-community/Arts-and-culture/Architecture-Museum/ last updated 6 September 2017 YOUNG, Gordon RESEARCH COLLECTION Architecture Museum, University of South Australia South Australian Centre for Settlement Studies The South Australian Centre for Settlement Studies is an incorporated body set up under the aegis of the Councils of the South Australian College of Advanced Education (SACAE) and the South Australian Institute of Technology (SAIT). It was launched upon the foundation of a successful collaboration between Ian Harmstorf, Senior Lecturer in History, SACAE and Gordon Young, Senior Lecturer in Architecture SAIT in the production of the Barossa Survey (1976-1977). That survey examined the patterns of German settlement in the Barossa Valley in the nineteenth century. It was one of the first heritage surveys funded under the National Estate Programme set up late in 1975. Apart from the architectural and historical research that was undertaken, a survey was also made of the physical geography of the district by Roger Smith, Lecturer in Geography at the SACAE. The research group then went on to study the early German settlement of Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills, a project funded by the newly formed Australian Heritage Commission (1977). The township's historical development was studied as well as that of its surrounding hamlets, including Paechtown. A major feature of the survey was the measurement and delineation of all the buildings on both sides of the main street of Hahndorf and several nearby large farmhouses and barns. In order clearly to understand the nature of the settlement and it's buildings, the settlers' historical European backgrounds were carefully researched (viz. Their village life, farmhouses and outbuildings and patterns of settlement). The information obtained from the Barossa and Hahndorf surveys clearly highlighted the importance of German settlement in the early rural history of South Australia. To complete the research of major German settlements, two more projects have since been undertaken. Lobethal and its environs was studied between 1980 and 1982 and Birdwood (formerly Blumberg) between 1982 and 1984. Michael Butler, then Lecturer in Geography, SACAE, studied the physical geography of the Lobethal district and Jim Faull, Senior Lecturer in Geographical Studies, SACAE was responsible for a similar study of the Birdwood area. The Centre has recently completed a study of the Onkaparinga Council District. The Upper Onkaparinga Valley is an area of the Adelaide Hills which, as well as being settled by German immigrants, had a large Scottish enclave during its first twenty years of settlement. It was one of the first parts of the state to be settled outside of the metropolitan area (e.g. Balhannah, 1839 and Lobethal, 1842). Both it and the adjoining council districts of Gumeracha, Mount Pleasant and Mount Barker still retain many pioneer buildings and historic precincts from this early period of settlement. Centre Activities The area of research with which the Centre was concerned covers the broad spectrum of European settlement in Australia, and in particular: History: both social and economic; Geography; land forms and uses and economic developments; Architecture; the transfer of cultural heritages into Australia in the form of building types and their related construction; Page 2 http://www.unisa.edu.au/Business-community/Arts-and-culture/Architecture-Museum/ last updated 6 September 2017 YOUNG, Gordon RESEARCH COLLECTION Architecture Museum, University of South Australia Planning; the form of early settlements, their origins and the development which took place in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Conservation; methods of conservation related to both the natural and adapted environment and individual historical architectural precincts of individual buildings. Centre Publications The Centre has published all of its survey reports, details of which are as follows; The Barossa Survey A three volume report published in 1978 (out of print, and to be republished in 1986 in one volume). The Hahndorf Survey A two volume report published in 1981 The Lobethal Survey. A single volume report published in 1983 The Birdwood Survey. A single volume report published in 1984 Other Publications Early Barossa Settlements: a single volume report based on the survey (out of print) A German Teachers Handbook: A specialised handbook based on the Centre's surveys of German settlements and prepared by Ms Karen Wickman, Senior German Teacher, Underdale High School. Pioneer Buildings of the Onkaparinga Bowl - Balhannah, Oakbank, Woodside and Lobethal: A lavishly illustrated book on key historic buildings of the Onkaparinga District Council area. Establishment of the Centre The research collaboration between the College and the Institute was formalised in April 1982 by the incorporation of the Centre. The Centre was controlled by a Board of eleven members, chaired by Graeme Pretty, Senior Curator, SA Museum, and is directed by Gordon Young, Senior Lecturer in Architecture, School of Architecture and Building at the SA Institute of Technology (Jim Faull, Senior Lecturer in Geographical Studies, SACAE, was the acting Director during 1984) Centre Board Members Mr Graeme Pretty Mr Jim Faull Senior Curator Senior Lecturer in Geographical Studies SA Museum SA College of Advanced Education Mr Brian Harper Dr Leslie Heathcote Senior Lecturer in Planning Reader in Geography SA Institute of Technology Flinders University Ms Elizabeth Ho Mr Robert Nicol Executive Officer Lecturer in History Jubilee 150 Education Committee SA College of Advanced Education Mr Kent Rossiter Dr Stephen Hamnett Principal Officer Head, Dept of Planning SA Dept of Tourism SA Institute of Technology Mr Barry Rowney Mr Robert Taylor Senior Heritage Architect Manager, Techsearch Inc SA Dept of Environment SA Institute of Technology Mr Gordon Young Senior Lecturer in Architecture SA Institute of Technology Page 3 http://www.unisa.edu.au/Business-community/Arts-and-culture/Architecture-Museum/ last updated 6 September 2017 YOUNG, Gordon RESEARCH COLLECTION Architecture Museum, University of South Australia In addition to people already mentioned the following have made contributions to the publications of the Centre: Annely Auckins B Arnold Historian; Lobethal, Birdwood and Local Historian Onkaparinga Surveys Birdwood Survey Lothar Brasse Greg Drew Research Architect; Barossa and Technical Officer Hahndorf Surveys Dept of