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Sydney Technical College
The Sydney Technical College, now part of TAFE NSW, is a technical school established in 1878, that superseded the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts. The college is one of Australia's oldest technical education institutions. History The Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was founded in 1833. In 1878, the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts formed the Working Men's College, which eventually became the Sydney Technical College in 1882. In 1911, the high school operations of the college became Sydney Technical High School. In 1923 Mary Ellen Roberts, who had become a teacher of scientific dresscutting and making at the college in 1900, managed the transfer the courses of women's handicrafts to the East Sydney Technical College. In 1949, the New South Wales University of Technology (later University of New South Wales) was founded on the college's main site, as a separate institution, before moving to its own campus in Kensington. In 1969, part of the college became the New Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Technological College, Sydney
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word ''technology'' can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible tools such as utensils or machines, and intangible ones such as software. Technology plays a critical role in science, engineering, and everyday life. Technological advancements have led to significant changes in society. The earliest known technology is the stone tool, used during prehistory, followed by the control of fire—which in turn contributed to the growth of the human brain and the development of language during the Ice Age, according to the cooking hypothesis. The invention of the wheel in the Bronze Age allowed greater travel and the creation of more complex machines. More recent technological inventions, including the printing press, telephone, and the Internet, have lowered barriers to communication and ushered in the knowledge economy. Whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructing buildings or other Structure#Load-bearing, structures. The term comes ; ; . Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as work of art, works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements. The practice, which began in the Prehistory, prehistoric era, has been used as a way of expressing culture by civilizations on all seven continents. For this reason, architecture is considered to be a form of art. Texts on architecture have been written since ancient times. The earliest surviving text on architectural theory, architectural theories is the 1st century AD treatise by the Roman architect Vitruvius, according to whom a good bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Edward Hewlett Hogben
Edward Hewlett Hogben (6 March 1875 – 1 March 1936) was an Australian architect who had a prominent role in modernising the Carrington Hotel, Katoomba in 1911 when he designed the new facade for Sir James Joynton Smith. In partnership with the estate agent Alfred Craig, and then with the Goyder brothers, he played an influential role in the architectural development of both Katoomba and Leura between the wars. An early commission in 1905 was the design of the Kanowna guesthouses for John Connely in Wascoe Street, Leura. His most distinguished private home was the second Leuralla, built for Harry Andreas. Hogben was born to Edward Hogben (1835–1891) and Jemima Henrietta (née Hewlett 1847–1918). His father was Mayor of Kogarah Council (1887–1888). In 1889 Hogben commenced at Newington College Newington College is a multi-campus Independent school, independent Uniting Church in Australia, Uniting Church Single-sex education, single-sex and Mixed-sex education, co-e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Eric Heath (architect)
Eric Fergus Heath (1894 – 23 September 1952) was an Australian architect active in the second quarter of the 20th century. His work encompassed the numerous Australian architectural styles of the inter-war period and he was considered to be one of the finest draftsmen of his day. Family Heath was born in Junee, New South Wales, to Edward and Euphemia (Effie) Heath. His brother Clive Patterson Heath (1895–1963), also an architect, was born the following year. Clive married Edna Jean Pritchard (1902–1968) in 1926. She graduated as a Bachelor of Architecture in 1924 and Clive graduated in 1925 and they lived in Manly, New South Wales. Clive and Edna lived and worked in Brisbane, Queensland in the late 1930s and early 1940s as architects, and then returned to Sydney. Early life Eric Heath attended Newington College as a boarding student commencing in 1907. Heath was Articled clerk, articled in architecture and studied at Sydney Technical College. In 1924 he married Edna Castl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Carlyle Greenwell
Carlyle Greenwell (16 March 1884 – 7 February 1961) was an Australian architect whose houses, designed in the first half of the 20th century, are often heritage-listed. He was also a philanthropist who made bequests to the University of Sydney funding research in Anthropology and Archaeology. Early life Greenwell was born in Windsor, New South Wales, the son of Australian-born Emma Amelia Greenwell (née Johnston 1847-1922) and English-born Smith Thomas Greenwell (1831-1913). He was educated at Newington College (1897–1901). Architectural career Greenwell studied architecture at Sydney Technical College before there was a university architecture course available in Sydney but also attended architecture lectures in the Engineering Faculty at University of Sydney. In the 1910s Australian and North American architecture became more aligned when the English-born architect and designer James Peddle arrived in Pasadena. He was determined to learn all he could in Califor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean Fombertaux
Jean Fombertaux (1920–1976, Sydney, Australia) was a French émigré architect who spent most of his career designing buildings in and around Sydney. His style was exemplary of Sydney architecture during the 1960s and was significant to the modernist movement. Life Fombertaux was born in Nice, France and was brought up in the French colonies of South East Asia. The adolescent Fombertaux arrived in Australia when he was sixteen years old, after fleeing the war. His father worked in the French Foreign Service and he had to endure a strict upbringing. In later years, Fombertaux studied architecture at the Sydney Technical College with Russell Jack and Bruce Rickard and graduated in 1947. Like many of the Sydney-based architects, Fombertaux chose to build his own house on the North Shore where he built one of Australia’s iconic houses, the Fombertaux House. In the year of the house's completion, Fombertaux was offered a position in the office of Le Corbusier, but never return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bruce Dellit
Charles Bruce Dellit (7 November 1898 – 21 August 1942) was an Australian architect who pioneered the Art Deco style in Australia. He was generally known as Bruce Dellit. He is known for having designed the Anzac War Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney. Early life and education Dellit was born on 7 November 1898 in Darlington, Sydney Australia. He was the son of Albert Dellit, a furniture manufacturer and Agnes Gertrude Mack. His full siblings were Albert Cormack, Leo Harold and Ena May. As a child, he attended Christian Brothers' College, Waverley.Dellit, Charles Bruce (1898–1942) Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2012-03-05. After leaving school, Dellit gained employment with the architect John L. Berry and at 16 he enrolled at the |
Hedley Norman Carr
Hedley Norman Carr F.R.A.I.A., A.R.I.B.A. (21 March 1904 – 9 June 1966) was an Australian architect active in the mid 20th century as a partner of Hedley Carr Allen & Watts. His architectural archive is held by the State Library of New South Wales. A detailed biographical record of Carr's architectural career is held at the Australian Institute of Architects in Sydney. Early life Carr was born in Orange, New South Wales and spent his early years living in that town. His family were members of the Methodist Church. He grew up in the home built for his parents in 1899 ''Tyneside'' in Sale Street. Carr was one of six children of Frank Pattison Carr and Annie Maria (née Howard) and was educated locally at Orange Public School, Wolaroi Methodist Boys College and for his senior years as a boarding student at Newington College in Sydney. He graduated from the Department of Architecture at Sydney Technical College (STC) in 1928 having served his articles under Old Newingtonian a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Walter Bunning
Walter Ralston Bunning (19 May 1912 – 13 October 1977) was an Australian architect and urban planner. Early life Bunning was born in Brisbane. During the depression he moved to Sydney to study at National Art School, East Sydney Technical College graduating in 1936. He then worked in the offices of Carlyle Greenwell and Stephenson and Turner, Stephenson & Meldrum while attending Sydney Technical College at night. After his graduation he was awarded a travelling scholarship by the Board of Architects of New South Wales and from 1937–1939 he travelled throughout Europe and North America working for prominent architects in London, Dublin and New York City, New York. According to Johnson, it was this time overseas that became a crucial time in the evolution of Bunning's design and thought, inspiring modernist design and ideas that could be brought back and applied to Australia. Working life In 1938 Bunning returned to Australia and helped to establish the Sydney arm of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Henry Budden
Henry "Harry" Ebenezer Budden (11 August 1871 – 25 December 1944) was a Sulman Award winning Australians, Australian architect active in the first 40 years of the 20th century. His work encompassed the styles of the Australian architectural styles, Federation Arts and Crafts and Bungalow through to the Australian architectural styles, Inter-War Stripped Classical and Art Deco. He was a leader of his profession and in the wider community, serving as the first Australian War Chest Commissioner during World War I. Family and early life Budden was born in Rockley, New South Wales, the son of Sarah Hale (née Stanger) and Arthur Budden. His mother's family were flour millers and his father was a bank manager and store keeper who was born in Braintree, Essex, England. The Budden and Stanger families were active and committed members of the Congregational church, Congregational Church. Bathurst, New South Wales, Bathurst is the nearest major town to Rockley and Budden travelled t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arthur Anderson (architect)
Arthur William Anderson (13 May 1868 – 25 June 1942) was an Australian architect active in the last decade of the 19th century and the first 40 years of the 20th century. He was a founder and first president of the Federal Council of the Australian Institute of Architects. Early life Anderson was born in Hobart, Tasmania, the son of Maria (née Lipscombe) and William Appleby Anderson and spent his early years in New Zealand. He was educated at Toorak College, Melbourne, and at 12 years of age he commenced senior education at Newington College (1881–1883). His three years at Newington coincided with the headmastership of Joseph Coates. In 1884 Anderson was articled in architecture to A L and G McCredie architects and consulting engineers and in the ensuing five years studied at Sydney Technical College. Career Methodist Church Throughout the 50 years that Anderson worked as an architect in New South Wales, two institutions had a strong influence on his commissions - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
List Of Australian Architects
This is a list of Australian architects. A ''#top, Return to top of page'' B ''#top, Return to top of page'' C ''#top, Return to top of page'' D ''#top, Return to top of page'' E ''#top, Return to top of page'' F ''#top, Return to top of page'' G ''#top, Return to top of page'' H ''#top, Return to top of page'' I ''#top, Return to top of page'' J ''#top, Return to top of page'' K ''#top, Return to top of page'' L ''#top, Return to top of page'' M ''#top, Return to top of page'' N ''#top, Return to top of page'' O ''#top, Return to top of page'' P ''#top, Return to top of page'' R ''#top, Return to top of page'' S ''#top, Return to top of page'' T ''#top, Return to top of page'' U ''#top, Return to top of page'' V ''#top, Return to top of page'' W ''#top, Return to top of page'' See also * Australian architectural styles * New South Wales Government Architect * Principal Architect (Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
