RESPONDING TO CIRCUMSTANCE

Challenges, opportunities and directions in architectural archives collection policy in

(South) Australia

CHRISTINE GARNAUT

Map of Australia. Available online at:

http://www.ga.gov.au/image_cache/GA14986.pdf

Turner house n.d. Milne collection S5/13/3

Major Australian Architectural CollectionsADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

• Architecture Museum, University of South Australia

• State Library of South Australia

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

• University of Melbourne Archives

• State Library of Victoria

• RMIT Design Archives, RMIT University

PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

• School of Built Environment, Curtin University

• State Library of Western Australia (Battye Library)

BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND

• Fryer Library, University of Queensland

• John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

SYDNEY, NEWCASTLE, NEW SOUTH WALES

• Mitchell Library State Library of New South Wales, Sydney

• Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, University of Newcastle Archives, Newcastle

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

• National Library of Australia

Unwrapped exhibition. SASA Gallery 2005

Architecture Museum

UniSA

Items Architecture Museum collection.

J. Collins and S. Collins photograph 2003

Mil

Harold T Griggs s167/64

Russell S Ellis S89/24/2

F Kenneth Milne S5/33

Charles Alexander Russell S98/180/5

R G Thomas Stained glass window design 1846 S150

Chamberlain collection assorted items

Collecting strategy themes

1. redressing weaknesses in the existing collection

• women architects

• interior design records

2. amplifying and complementing existing collections/acquiring missing records

3. responding to and anticipating needs of existing and potential future clients

Marjorie Simpson

News Home of the Year 1961

Simpson collection S271

Collecting strategy themes

1. redressing weaknesses in the existing collection

• women architects

• interior design records

2. amplifying and complementing existing collections/acquiring missing records

3. responding to and anticipating needs of existing and potential future clients

Under the Fabric of

Architecture

Rachel Hurst and

Jane Lawrence 2008

Photographs courtesy R. Hurst and J. Lawrence

Image details: slides 5, 15

Slide 5 (Clockwise from top left)

‘Un Monument a la source d’un fleuve’ Russell Ellis student work 1932. Ellis collection S89/69

Specification Martindale Hall S180Flavel residence Ellis collection S89/22/53House at Magill 1941. Griggs collection S167/789AMP building, Adelaide. Hurren, Langman and James collection S248Service station plan C.A. Russell. Russell collection S98/205

Slide 15 (Clockwise from top left)

Sixth Australian Architectural Convention 1956 pamphle.t RAIA Collection S215/1/1

Claxton house Harold T. Griggs. Griggs collection S167/789/1Heinz factory, Victoria. McConnell collection S270AMP Building Hurren, Langman and James collection S248Bank of New South Wales, Adelaide. Undated watercolour. Ellis collection S93