Richard (Dick) Apperley b. 1920s

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Richard (Dick) Apperley (1924?-1992) taught architectural design and history at the University of New South Wales from the 1950s to the 1990s and is best known as a lead author of two important history guides.
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Richard (Dick) Apperley (1925 or 1924?-1992) graduated from the University of Sydney and was registered in 1951. He taught design and architectural history for many years at the University of NSW, became Chairman of its Faculty of Architecture and wrote several significant books. They include A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture : styles and forms from 1788 to the present (1989, with Robert Irving and Peter Reynolds, North Ryde: Angus & Robertson); 444 Sydney buildings (1971, with Peter Lind, Sydney: Angus & Robertson) and a chapter in Robert Irving’s The History and Design of the Australian House. ¶
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—Apperley, Richard, Robert Irving, Peter Reynolds. 1989. A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture : styles and forms from 1788 to the present. North Ryde: Angus and Robertson. ¶
—NSW Architects Registration Board database, December 2004. Sometimes this database recorded birthdates as 1 Jan for the year following the architect’s actual birthdate. ¶