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Lipson, Samuel, b. 1901

Lipson was an architect and designer active in furniture and interior design during the 1940s and 1950s. Working alone, he designed domestic furniture such as ...

Updated Feb. 8, 2024

Fox, Frank, b. 1913

Frank Fox was an architect (perhaps not registered?), industrial designer and interior designer who initially was successful as the designer of late 1940s and early ...

Updated Jan. 24, 2024

Chapman, Martyn, b. 1933

Independent architect of various Sydney houses and stores during the 1950s and 1960s. President NSW Chapter, Royal Australian Institute of Architects 1980-82. Founder of RAIA ...

Updated Sept. 19, 2022

Molnar, George, b. 1910

Molnar was an architect, cartoonist, watercolourist, illustrator and architecture lecturer at Sydney University and the University of NSW. His lecturers were highly praised by students. ...

Updated Aug. 1, 2022

Lucas, Bill, b. 1924

Bill Lucas was a Sydney architect best known for his own Lucas house, aka Glass House, Castlecrag (1958). During the early 1950s, he also designed ...

Updated March 26, 2022

Kollar, Peter , b. 1926

Dr Peter Kollar (1926-2000) was an associate professor of architecture at the University of New South Wales from 1957 to the 1970s. Domestic architecture by ...

Updated July 30, 2021

Wrigley, Derek, b. 1924

Wrigley practiced architecture in the UK and Australia. Formerly employed as a lecturer Manchester College of Art, UK, lecturer at NSW University of Technology (now ...

Updated July 20, 2021

Nicholls, Eric, b. 1902

Eric Nichols (1902-1966) was an architect who worked closely with American expatriates Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin from the 1920s to their departure ...

Updated Dec. 14, 2020

Read, Bert, b. 1930

Bert Read (1930–) was a Sydney-educated architect who worked with Harold Smith, John Stiles, Peter Muller and Ian McKay during the 1950s and 1960s, moving ...

Updated Aug. 13, 2020

Divola, Harry, b. 1913

Divola designed commercial and domestic buildings and interiors in Sydney during the late 1940s and early 1950s. He also provided a plan service for readers ...

Updated Sept. 16, 2019

Crick, Guy, b. 1901

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 ...

Updated Sept. 13, 2019

Reves, George, b. 1910

George Reves (sometimes spelt Reeves) was an architect and designer of commercial interiors and buildings in Sydney. He registered as an architect in NSW in ...

Updated March 31, 2019

Rickard, Bruce, b. 1929

Bruce Rickard (1929-2010) was a Sydney and US-educated architect who created some of Sydney's outstanding 'organic' houses (mainly timber and brick) from the late 1950s ...

Updated Nov. 22, 2018

Buhrich, Hugh, b. 1911

Hugh Buhrich is best-known as the architect (with his wife Eva) of some exceptional modern brick and timber houses in Sydney, including two built for ...

Updated Nov. 19, 2017

Buhrich, Eva, b. 1915

Buhrich studied architecture at the Polytechnic University, Berlin with Hans Poelzig, moving to Zurich’s Technical University, then England by 1938, later to Australia in 1939. ...

Updated Nov. 19, 2017

Harvey Lucas, Ruth, b. 1926

(Mary) Ruth Harvey was an architect who worked during the 1950s in London with Frederick Gibberd, then in Helsinki, and later with Tony Moore and ...

Updated Sept. 4, 2017

Carney, Clive

Clive was an interior designer and design retailer. Together with Edna Carney, he established "Artistry", an interior design studio in Sydney, later in Melbourne. His ...

Updated Sept. 1, 2017

Gruzman, Neville, b. 1925

Neville Gruzman was one of Sydney's significant independent architects from the 1950s to the 1980s. He was inspired by traditional Japanese architecture and landscape design, ...

Updated April 3, 2017

Collard, Max, b. 1909

Founder-principal of Sydney architects Collard Clarke and Jackson.

Updated Nov. 16, 2016

van Breda, S.C., b. 1908

Updated Feb. 29, 2016

McKay, Ian, b. 1932

Ian McKay was a notable architect in Sydney during the 1960s, including a brief partnership with Philip Cox; he also built significant residences around the ...

Updated Feb. 5, 2016

Taylor, Jennifer , b. 1935

Professor Jennifer Taylor (1933-) was a leading teacher of architectural history at the University of Sydney, then University of Queensland, and the author of the ...

Updated Feb. 5, 2016

Baldwinson, Arthur N., b. 1908

Baldwinson was a regional modernist architect. He was a founder member of Modern Architecture Research Society (MARS), Sydney, Australia’s first industrial design organization, the “Design ...

Updated Dec. 25, 2015

Woolley, Ken, b. 1933

Ken Woolley (1933–2015) was a leading Sydney architect of major public buildings and innovative residences. He worked for the Government Architect's Branch of the NSW ...

Updated Nov. 30, 2015

Quarry, Neville, b. 1933

Neville Quarry was Professor of Architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney (formerly NSW Institute ...

Updated Nov. 24, 2015