Heritage Information Leaflet 1.10

South Australian Architecture: A Reading List

This list is designed for readers with a broad general interest in the State's buildings. If you are interested in the buildings of a specific area only the most useful starting point will usually be the local and regional heritage surveys which have been completed for much of the State.

Usually only limited numbers of these are printed but they can be found in State Library, and at:
Ground Floor
1 Richmond Rd
Keswick 5035
Australia

ANON A Selective Regional Bibliography of the Architectural History of South Australia including social histories of churches and schools. Adelaide: Department of Environment and Planning, 1991.

ANON The Heritage of South Australia and Northern Territory: The Illustrated Register of the National Estate. South Melbourne: Macmillan in association with the Australian Heritage Commission, 1985. [This is an updated version of the South Australian section of The Heritage of Australia. Macmillan in association with the Australian Heritage Commission, 1981.]

BURDEN, M Lost Adelaide: a photographic record. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1983.

COLWELL, M & D Heritage Preserved with the National Trust of South Australia. Joslin: Max Colwell Publications, 1985.

COLWELL, M & FINCH, P The National Trust of South Australia. Adelaide: Rigby, 1973.

CUMMING, DA & MOXHAM, GC They built South Australia: Engineers, Technicians, Manufacturers and Their Work. Adelaide: The Authors, 1986.

ELLIOTT, J Our Home in Australia: a description of cottage life in 1860. Sydney: Flannel Flower Press, 1984.

GUNTON, E Gracious Homes of Colonial Adelaide. [Adelaide]: E. Gunton, 1983.

HOWARD, T Mud and Man: a history of earth buildings in Australasia. Melbourne? Earthbuild Publications, 1992 ch. 9.

JENSEN, E & R Colonial Architecture in South Australia: a definitive chronicle of development 1836-1890 and the social history of the times. Adelaide: Rigby, 1980.

MCDOUGALL, K 'A Preference for Stone: South Australia' in Howells, T & Nicholson, M Towards the Dawn: Federation Architecture in Australia. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1993 pp 128-136.

MARSDEN, S Business, Charity and Sentiment: the South Australian Housing Trust, 1936-1986. Netley: Wakefield Press, 1986.

MARSDEN, S et al. Heritage of the City of Adelaide: an illustrated guide. Adelaide: The Corporation, 1991.

MORGAN, EJR & GILBERT, SH Early Adelaide Architecture 1836 to 1886. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1969.

O'CONNOR, C Spanning Two Centuries: Historic Bridges of Australia. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985 ch 4 South Australia.

PAGE, M Sculptors in Space: South Australian architects 1836-1986. [Adelaide]: Royal Australian Institute of Architects (South Australian Chapter), 1986.

PERSSE, JN & ROSE, DM House Styles in Adelaide: a pictorial history. Adelaide: Australian Institute of Valuers & Real Estate Institute of South Australia, 1993 edition.

PIKUSA, S The Adelaide House 1836 to 1901: the evolution of principal dwelling types. Netley: Wakefield Press, 1986.

ROBERTSON, EG Adelaide Lace. Adelaide: Rigby, 1973.

WALKER, J (ed) South Australia's Heritage. Netley: Heritage South Australia, Department of Environment and Planning & Government Printing Division, 1986. [This also contains the Register of State Heritage Items (now called the State Heritage Register), arranged by type of building.]

WILLIAMS, M The Making of the South Australian Landscape. London & New York: Academic Press, 1974 pp 445-464. [Housing]

Journal Articles

DOLAN, DS 'Gothic Revival Architecture of South Australia', South Australiana, 13/1 (March 1974) pp 3-33.

MARSHALL, A. 'The Climate Relevance of Adelaide Building Styles since 1842', The Australian Geographer, 9 (March 1963) pp 13-20.

TAYLOR, FM 'The Architecture of Adelaide, where it is good, bad and indifferent. A critical review', Building, 17 (October 1915) pp 65-82.

South Australian Discussions of Built Heritage

1968 WHITELOCK, D (ed) Where now with the National Trust? University of Adelaide, 1968.

1978 BOND, C & RAMSAY, H Preserving Historic Adelaide. Rigby, 1978.

1981? WARBURTON, J (ed) Our Built Heritage. University of Adelaide, nd.

1984? ANON Time Gentleman Please!!: the story of the fight to save the Aurora Hotel, 1983. Norwood: Aurora Heritage Action, nd.

1986 WARBURTON, J Sustaining Our Heritage: The Story of the Civic Trust Awards and Brickbats 1971 to 1984. Civic Trust of South Australia, 1986.

1990 MARSDEN, S & NICOL, R (eds) The Politics of Heritage. History Trust of SA & Historical Society of SA, 1990.

Individual Architects

CHESHIRE, C with JOHNSON, DL 'Russell S. Ellis: South Australian architect and master draughtsman' in P Johnson (ed) SAHANZ 87 Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand Papers Fourth Annual Conference Adelaide 9-10 May 1987. Kensington: The Society, 1991 pp 47-51.

DANCKER, FW Modern Dwellings: 100 selected designs. Adelaide: The author, 1904.

FENTON, ME WK Mallyon 1850-1933: A sketchbook of early church architecture in the mid north of South Australia. Adelaide: Libraries Board of SA, 1971.

LANGMEAD, D Accidental Architect. Darlinghurst: Crossing Press, 1994. [GS Kingston]

SHERRIN, T 'Edward Angus Hamilton', Heritage Australia, Spring 1985, pp 24-26.

WALKLEY, G Louis Laybourne Smith: a memoir. Adelaide: SA Institute of Technology 1977.

See also the works by Jensen and Page cited above and the entries in the Australian Dictionary of Biography (1966 - , 16 vols so far) for WH Bagot, D Garlick, W McMinn, R Rees, CEO Smyth, GK Soward and WC Torode.