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Architecture Museum, University of South Australia

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8302 9235

Address: Kaurna Building, Fenn Place 5000 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: https://unisa.edu.au/connect/galleries-museums-and-centres/architecture-museum/

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22.01.2022 Call for abstracts for the 2021 SAHANZ conference in Adelaide open until 15 February 2021. https://www.sahanz2021.com/

21.01.2022 This pencil drawing is a piece of student work by Margaret Viney, who was the daughter of architect Robert Viney, and who studied architecture in the 1940s. She gained a cadetship at what was then the School of Mines, working in the SA Government Engineering Department during the daytime and studying four nights a week. This image shows some of her student work in the subject of Antique Drawing. During the second world war, when she was eighteen, she put her studies on hold t...o join the Air Force in Melbourne, where she drew escape maps for pilots who crashed. On her return to Adelaide she continued her architectural studies, but later gave them up, working instead as a draughtswoman for architectural practices. In the 1950s she worked for the SA Housing Trust, working on Housing Units by Orlit S.A. Ltd. at Kilburn. She also worked for a time as a draughtswoman for the South Australian Brewing Company in their Adelaide office. Having been married in 1949, Margaret and husband John Wollaston had children, including twins, which when combined with John working away often and Margaret caring for her mother, limited the paid work she could manage to do. Later Margaret went back to study ceramics through night classes at the Art School and became a ceramicist exhibiting both nationally and internationally. Sources: Oral History with Margaret Wollaston on 9 April 2007 by Helen Miller OH 728/42 State Library of South Australia; personal communication. Student drawing by Margaret Wollaston, c.1944, Wollaston collection, S290/2, Architecture Museum, University of South Australia.

15.01.2022 The D.R. Stevenson House and Office, corner of Greenhill Road and Chinner Avenue, Parkside, South Australia, 1974, by architect John Andrew (now demolished). Slide: Langmead collection, S282/142, Architecture Museum, University of South Australia. #architecturemuseum #johnandrew #architecture #Adelaidearchitecture Photographer: Donald Langmead.

15.01.2022 "The White House. People waiting to see Herbert Hoover leave." Washington, USA, Sunday 7th April 1929, photographed by Jack Cheesman. One of the many photos in Jack Cheesman's album from his time spent in the USA. In his diary he wrote about this day, saying: "I gathered with the crowd at White House at 20 to 11 to see the 'Erbert 'Oover come out and go to Church. Police stop people taking snaps of him. I thought I'd got him when a big cop stepped right in front of me and ordered me to put that camera away." (Jack Cheesman, diary entry, 1 April 1929, S327/10/7 and photograph album S327/11, Architecture Museum, Cheesman collection, University of South Australia)

10.01.2022 A wonderful publication by Miles Lewis just released by Melbourne Books. So pleased to have been able to contribute some of the architectural drawings from the collections of the Architecture Museum at the University of South Australia.

09.01.2022 Hello to our Heritage SA friends, We are seeking your help. Have you visited The Peake Telegraph Station (SHP 13624) in the last 2 years and have any photos th...at you would be willing to share with us? Feel free to post them in the comments below or email to [email protected] thanks, Louise Image credits: DEW Files and State Library of South Australia

09.01.2022 The South Australian Institute of Architects awarded this book prize to one of the earliest architectural students, H. Herbert Jory, in 1907 for his design of A Gardener's Lodge. The book is An Encyclopaedia of Architecture by Joseph Gwilt. Herbert Jory (1888-1966) went on to become one of the partners of Woods, Bagot, Jory and Laybourne Smith and was the designer of numerous South Australian Churches. You can find out more about Jory at https://www.architectsdatabase.unisa.edu.au/arch_full.asp This book, along with others, was generously donated to the Architecture Museum by Donald Leslie Johnson.

08.01.2022 The Penguin Pool in London was designed by architect Berthold Lubetkin and the Tecton group with structural engineers Ove Arup and Felix Samuely in 1933-34. Photograph by Adelaide architect James Irwin c1962. Irwin collection, S202/2/1583, Architecture Museum, University of South Australia. #penguins #modernism #zoo #bertholdlubetkin #ovearup

06.01.2022 Happy 30th Birthday University of South Australia! Elevation of the Brookman Building on North Terrace at the City East Campus of the University of South Australia, dating from 1900, designed by the Public Works Department and built by builders F. Fricker. University of South Australia collection S104/26, Architecture Museum, University of South Australia.... You can read more about the history of the University of South Australia here: https://www.unisa.edu.au//Alumni-netwo/Antecedent-History/ .... and you can find out more the about Brookman Building on the History Trust of South Australia's 'Adelaidia' at: https://adelaidia.history.sa.gov.au/places/brookman-building

04.01.2022 Join Architecture Museum curator and researcher Julie Collins, and architect and educator Gill Matthewson, next Monday on Zoom for a conversation with Kali Marnane and Macarena de la Vega de León in the inaugural Parlour Lab session. We will be talking about archives and data, visibility and representation, and the delights and challenges of researching women in architecture. Hope to see you there!

02.01.2022 A public talk by the Architecture Museum's Chris Burns on 'Liturgy, Community, Modernity: new churches in the Western suburbs 1945-1990' will be held at the Port Adelaide Historical Society Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 18th November at 7:30 p.m. at St Alban's Anglican Church Largs Bay, 31 Jetty Rd, Largs Bay. BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL - See post below for link.