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Architecture of Australia has generally been consistent with architectural trends in the wider Western world, with some special adaptations to compensate for distinctive Australian climatic and cultural factors. Indigenous Australians produced a wide range of structures and places prior to colonisation. Contemporary Indigenous practitioners are ...
The Victorian period, generally aligned with the reign of Queen Victoria, covers the period from c. 1840 to c. 1890 and comprises fifteen styles, all prefaced by the word "Victorian", and are namely, in loose chronological order, Georgian, Regency, Egyptian, Academic Classical, Free Classical, Filigree, Mannerist, Second Empire, Italianate, Romanesque, Byzantine, Academic Gothic, Free Gothic ...
Colonial architecture is the term used for the buildings constructed in Australia between European settlement in January 1788 and about 1840. The first buildings of the British penal settlement in Sydney were a prefabricated house for the Governor and a similarly prefabricated Government Store to house the colony's supplies.
A pictorial guide to identifying Australian architecture (Paperback, 1994 ed.). Sydney, Australia: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-207-18562-X. Ulrike Laule, Rolf Toman, Achim Bednorz - Architecture of the Middle Ages - Background to the Gothic Revival style. George Wilkie - Building Your Own Home - Section on Architectural Styles; Styles; Canberra House
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Trondheim, Norway; Born Trondheim, Norway; Arrived Australia 1977; Andresen and O'Gorman; Associate Professor, Architecture, University of Queensland; Burrell Museum, Glasgow, Scotland (1976) House, Mooloomba, Queensland 1996; House, Highgate Hill Brisbane (1997) RAIA Gold Medal (2002) John Andrews AO
Architecture Australia; Australian Antarctic Building System; Australian architectural styles; Australian Institute of Architects; Australian Institute of Architects Awards and Prizes; Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal; Australian non-residential architectural styles; Australian residential architectural styles; The Australian Ugliness
Filigree architecture is a modern term given to a phase in the history of Australian architecture. The phase was an embellishment of the "Australian verandah tradition", [ 3 ] where the verandah evolved from its functional usages in the Old Colonial period to become highly ornamental.
Victorian sandstone buildings juxtaposed with modern skyscrapers The Sydney Opera House by Danish architect Jørn Utzon. The architecture of Sydney, Australia’s oldest city, is not characterised by any one architectural style, but by an extensive juxtaposition of old and new architecture over the city's 200-year history, from its modest beginnings with local materials and lack of ...