Architecture Resource Guide, page 2

Print resources

The following items are a selection of key print materials available in the Library. They can be located and, if necessary, requested through our online catalogue. These items will then be retrieved from storage and delivered to the book collection points in the La Trobe Reading Room or the Information Centre. Some original or rare items may be delivered to the Heritage Collections Reading Room.

Surveys

Burchell, Lawrence. Victorian schools: a study in colonial government architecture 1837-1900

1980LT, SLT 727.109945 B 89 V
A survey of Victorian school design and architects. Covers the English and NSW tradition, the Common Schools Board 1862-1872 and the Education Department 1873–1900. Contains plans and elevations of schools from the Public Record Office of Victoria. Appendices include illustrated architectural elements and a list of schools with identical or similar elevations.

Casey, Maie. et al. Early Melbourne architecture, 1840 to 1888. 1975

LT, SLT 720.99451 E 7
Originally published in 1953, this was the first photographic survey of Melbourne’s architectural heritage. Maie Casey with collaborators, Joan Lindsay, DA Casey, architects John and Tom Freeman and Allan R Henderson, became foundation members of the new National Trust of Australia (Victoria) which was established in 1956. In his preface to the 1975 edition, Joseph Burke noted that 50 percent  of the buildings illustrated in the 1953 edition had been demolished and the book had become ‘a work of historical record as well as a guide to the field study of what survives’.  The buildings demolished since the 1st edition are marked with a cross.

Historic buildings of Victoria, ed. David Saunders, 1966

LTR, SLTF, 720.9945 S 87 H
Contains illustrations and descriptive captions of all buildings classified by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) at the time of publication. Also includes essays on the architectural history of the various regions of Victoria and an article on architectural style by Colin Caldwell.

Goad, Philip. Judging architecture: issues, divisions, triumphs, Victorian Architecture Awards 1929-2003. Photographed by John Gollings, 2003

LTF 720.99450904 J 89 R
A photographic survey of the 36 best award-winning buildings in Victoria since the inception of the awards in 1929. Contains a history of the awards and short articles by a range of architects and award winners. Each building is illustrated with the original photograph taken at the time of the award and a modern one taken from the same position by architectural photographer, John Gollings.

Goad, Philip. Melbourne architecture. 1998

LTR, SLT, R 720.99451 G 53 M
Excellent small-format guide to the significant buildings of Melbourne and suburbs. Each building photographed with details of architect, construction dates, stylistic elements and map references. Chapters in chronological order reflect the changes in architectural style, for example, The Victorian City, and The Federation City. Contributing writers are Neil Clerehan, Conrad Hamann, Bryce Raworth, Bruce Trethowan and George Tibbits.

Lewis, Miles. Melbourne: the city's history and development.  c1995

LTR, LTF, SLTF 994.5 L 58 M
An important survey of the planning and building development of Melbourne from its foundation in 1834. This book includes information about roads, bridges, water supply sewerage and other services. Major architectural works are included.

Victorian churches, ed. Miles Lewis 1991

LTF, LTH, SLTF 726.509945 V 66 L
A survey of churches in Victoria giving the name of the architect/s, the dates of construction and additions plus a statement of significance.

Wilson, Granville, & Sands, Peter. Building a city : 100 years of Melbourne architecture. 1981

LT, SLT 720.99451 W 69 B
A survey of the significant public, commercial and domestic buildings of Melbourne. Separate chapters on early Melbourne, Melbourne after the gold rush, late Victorian architecture, Federation and between-the-wars architecture. There is also a chapter on the planning of Melbourne. Contains a good bibliography and a glossary of architectural terms plus a very useful alphabetical list of architects with dates of practice and brief biographical notes.

Biographies

Australian architectural index, compiled by Miles Lewis, 1992

119 microfiche 
LTR 720.9945 AU 7 M
This index was fiched in c1992, from approximately 150,00 cards held in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, the University of Melbourne. There are three sequences to search by: architect, building type and location. The entries include tender notices and biographical information about individual architects and partnerships drawn from newspapers, journals and other printed sources. Included also is a survey of architectural drawings held privately. Firms and private individuals still holding collections of drawings were indexed onto the Miles Lewis Architectural index in 1977.

Architectural survey: final report. 1977

LTR, S, SLTF 720.9945 L58A
This is the manual to accompany the Australian Architectural Index on microfiche by Miles Lewis. The manual includes a valuable list of abbreviations used in the index for the various sources quoted.

Butcher, Mike. Robert Alexander Love: goldfields architect 1814-1876. 2000

S, SLT, LTH  729.92 B 97 R
Robert Alexander Love was born in Ireland and practised in the United States before arriving in Melbourne in 1858. This is a survey of his work both in provincial Victoria, notably Bendigo and district and Stawell, as well as his earlier work in the USA. Love designed many important buildings in Bendigo including the Benevolent Asylum, 1859. There is a discussion of Love’s pioneering use of the cavity wall.

Edquist, Harriet. Harold Desbrowe-Annear: a life in architecture. 2004

SLT 720.92 D 45 E
Biography of Harold Desbrowe-Annear arts and crafts architect, who designed many important Melbourne houses. He promoted the idea of an ‘architecture of democracy’.  Illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.

Willis, Julie. & Hanna, Bronwyn. Women architects in Australia 1900-1950. 2001

LTF 720.92294 W 67 W
Contains biographical details and illustrations of the work of 140 women significantly involved in architecture.

The Library's architectural collections

Goad, Philip., Wilken, Rowan & Wills, Julie. Australian modern: the architecture of Stephenson & Turner. 2004.

SLT 720,994 G 53 A
This book was published to accompany an exhibition curated by Rowan Wilken and held in the Murdoch Gallery, State Library of Victoria in 2004. Stephenson & Turner’s work extends over every aspect of Victorian cultural life, from hospitals, banks and factories, to universities, state and religious buildings, and residential designs. The firm’s ground breaking works revolutionised health facility design and created many of Melbourne’s architectural landmarks such as St Vincent’s, the Mercy and Freemasons’, the Royal Melbourne and the Royal Children’s hospitals. The book contains valuable essays by Professor Philip Goad, Dr Julie Willis and Rowan Wilken and is illustrated with many contemporary photographs by Wolfgang Sievers. There is a list of the works exhibited at the end.

Lewis, Miles. 1977, ‘Architectural Drawings as historical sources’,  La Trobe Library Journal, vol. 5, no. 20, December

LT, RARELT 994.005 LA 3
An article on the ‘Melbourne University Architectural Collection’, held in the Pictures Collection, State Library of Victoria. This collection of architectural drawings contains many important examples from the latter part of the 19th century and into the 20th century.  Architects such as Nathaniel Billing, William Pitt and Walter Butler and Walter Burley Griffin are included. 

Tibbits, George, & Roennfeldt, Angela. Port Phillip colonial 1801-1851 : early government buildings and surveys in Victoria. 1989

LTF, MAPR, SLTF 925.109945 T 43 E
Published in association with an exhibition held at the State Library of Victoria in 1989, consisting for the most part of works from the State Library’s collection.  

Guides to collections

List of holdings Public Record Office, Victoria. 1994 

R and LTR  354,94599714 V 66L
Published list of their holdings of original architectural drawings. The PROV hold the records of the former Public Works Department which was responsible for building public buildings such as Parliament House, the State Library, the Old Treasury Building, court houses, customs houses (up to 1910) and state schools throughout Victoria.

Serle,  Geoffrey. Robin Boyd: a life. 1996.

SLT 720.92 B 69S
Robin Boyd, a gifted architect, writer, teacher and social commentator, was the leading Australian propagandist for the International Modern Movement in architecture. In partnership with Roy Grounds and Frederick Romberg, he was noted for his innovative domestic buildings. Indeed the suburban home was often a focus of Boyd's thinking, writing and criticism, and in Australia's Home (1952) he provided the first substantial interpretation of Australia's architectural history. 

Trethowan, Bruce, ‘The Public Works Department of Victoria - 1851-1900 : an architectural history’, unpublished thesis, 1975

MS MSB 124A Australian Manuscripts Collection
This is a useful guide to the collection of the former Public Works Department.

University of Melbourne Archives: guide to collections. 1983

LT, SLT  025.1714 UN 3 G
The University of Melbourne Archives was established in July 1960, initially to collect and preserve records relating to the University and to business and business people for the purposes of historical research. Included are a number of collections of architectural drawings and records from Melbourne architectural firms. One of the most important is the records of Bates Smart the firm which descended from Joseph Reed’s practice.