Guy Crick b. 1901

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Guy Crick was an architect who designed some commercial interiors and buildings in Sydney during the late 1940s and early 1950s. From 1946 to at least 1949, he was in parnership with S.C. van Breda and later he worked with Bruce W. Furse.
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Guy Crick was born in Hobart in 1901 abd attended the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and was later articled to Melbourne architect Mr E.J. Ruck. From 1923 to 1926, Crick was an instructor of architecture and building construction at the Hobart Technical School. He began his own architectural practice in 1932, specialising in theatre design. He served in the AIF from 1942 to 1944. In 1949 he and his then partner, S.C. van Breda, were featured in Decoration and Glass, which said that their partnership had designed or completely remodelled about 120 theatres from Queensland to southern Tasmania: the most notable example mentioned by Crick was West’s Theatre in Adelaide. The practice also was said to have produced many residences, schools, industrial and commercial projects.

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Personalities: Mr Guy Crick,in Decoration and Glass, May-June 1949, p. 34.

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