Sydney Architecture 1945-1975

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Towndrow, Frederick , b. 1897
Frederick Towndrow (1897-1977) was a London-born architect and town planner in Sydney. He lectured at the Sydney Technical College after World War II and became ...
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Taylor, Florence Mary, b. 1879
Florence Mary Taylor CBE OBE was Australia's first qualified woman architect, structural engineer and civil engineer. With her husband, architect-engineer-aviator George Taylor, she edited and ...
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Hook, Alfred (A.S.), b. 1886
Alfred (A.S.) Hook was a professor of architecture at the University of Sydney from the 1930s to the 1950s and earlier worked with the NSW ...
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Dunphy, Milo, b. 1921
Milo Dunphy was an architect in Sydney and a pioneer of Sydney's nature conservation movement. During the 1960s he chaired the RAIA NSW Environment Committee ...
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Daniels, Eric , b. 1924
Professor Eric Daniels was a Sydney architect and academic from the 1950s to 1985. He studied and later taught at the Sydney Technical College/University of ...
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Ashworth, H. Ingham
H. Ingham Ashworth was the second Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney, succeeding Leslie Wilkinson. Born in England, he played a key role ...
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Ashton, Adrian Olsson
Adrian Ashton was founding editor of the NSW RAIA Architecture Bulletin and editor of Building magazine during the late 1950s. He established the NSW RAIA ...
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Apperley, Richard (Dick), b. 1924
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 ...
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Webber, (Geoffrey Phillip) Peter, b. 1932
Peter Webber was the NSW Government Architect 1973-74, after joining the NSW Public Works Department as an architect in 1949 and becoming Assistant Government Architect ...
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Twibill, Geoffrey, b. 1928
Geoffrey Twibill was a Sydney architect who introduced concepts for retirement villages to Australia in the early 1960s. He worked with Bunning and Madden and ...
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Torzillo, Jack, b. 1921
Jack Torzillo was a Sydney educated architect who was a partner of the noted 1960s-80s practice Edwards Madigan Torzillo (and later Briggs), which created the ...
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Utzon, Jørn
Jørn Oberg Utzon (1918-2008) was a Danish architect who is best known for designing the Sydney Opera House (1957 competition scheme, completed by others after ...
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Symonds, Stan (Stanley), b. 1933
Stan Symonds (1933–) is a Sydney architect who was active during the late 1950s and 1960s. His most celebrated project is the concrete-glass 'spaceship' residence ...
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Snelling, Douglas Burrage, b. 1916
Snelling created more than 70 residential and commercial buildings in Sydney and Noumea. He was born in England, moved to New Zealand (1924), practised design ...
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Smith, Stan (Stanley), b. 1919
Stanley Smith (1919-) was educated at the University of Melbourne before moving to Sydney in 1950. He was a partner of the Sydney practice McConnel ...
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Smith, Harold, b. 1913
Harold Smith (1913-2008) was a Sydney architect who led the partnership Smith Jesse Payne and Hunt (SJPH, later renamed Designinc Sydney). He briefly worked in ...
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Seidler, Harry, b. 1923
Harry Seidler (1923-2006) was Australia's most significant and influential modernist architect. Born in Vienna and educated in Britain, Canada, the United States and Brazil, he ...
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Rice, Kevin
Kevin Rice is a Sydney architect who was was active from the 1960s through the 1990s; first as a partner of Hans Peter Oser and ...
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Rembert, Harry (Edward Henry), b. 1902
Harry (E.H.) Rembert was the senior design architect for Government Architects Cobden Parkes and Ted Farmer at the NSW Public Works Department from 1947-1965.
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Parkes, Cobden, b. 1892
Cobden Parkes was the New South Wales Government Architect 1935-1958.
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Oser, Hans Peter (H.P.), b. 1913
Hans Peter Oser was a Vienna-educated architect who came to Australia in 1938 and practised after World War II as H.P. Oser, then in partnership ...
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Murray, Stuart, b. 1926
Stuart Murray was a principal of the Sydney architecture practice Ancher Mortlock Murray and Woolley, where his notable building was the University of Newcastle Great ...
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Muller, Peter, b. 1927
Peter Muller (b. 1927, Adelaide) was one of Australia's most significant architects during the 1950s and 1960s, then created several historically significant hotels and resorts ...
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Mortlock, (Harold) Bryce, b. 1921
Bryce Mortlock was a distinguished Sydney architect during the 1950s and 1960s. After winning the University of Sydney medal for top architecture student (1950), he ...
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Moore, Tony, b. 1925
Tony Moore (1925-1972) was a Sydney architect who has been identified by historian Jennifer Taylor as the author of Australia's first 'Brutalist' house. He was ...
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