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JJ Clark: Architect of the Australian Renaissance by Andrew Dodd

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November 2012, no. 346

JJ Clark: Architect of the Australian Renaissance by Andrew Dodd

NewSouth Publishing, $59.99 hb, 271 pp, 9781742233055

JJ Clark: Architect of the Australian Renaissance by Andrew Dodd

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November 2012, no. 346

Architectural distinction was conferred upon most Australian towns and cities in the nineteenth century. This was achieved largely through the construction of public buildings designed by architects employed within colonial works departments – a practice that regrettably does not exist anymore. Town halls, post offices, courthouses, hospitals, lunatic asylums, and jails were the product of highly skilled public servants who shared a common view that civic decorum was best expressed through the architecture of the Classical Tradition. Within the pantheon of these government architects, there are famous names of Australian architecture. Francis Greenway, Mortimer Lewis, James Barnet, William Wardell, Charles Tiffin, F.D.G. Stanley, and Walter Liberty Vernon are the best known among a host of others. All in some way bequeathed a certain seriousness to the endeavour of building in a place where such structures had never before stood, and in doing so contributed to defining the future mood and character of that place.

Philip Goad reviews 'JJ Clark: Architect of the Australian Renaissance' by Andrew Dodd

JJ Clark: Architect of the Australian Renaissance

by Andrew Dodd

NewSouth Publishing, $59.99 hb, 271 pp, 9781742233055

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