DEH SA Built Heritage Research Fellowship
The collections of the Architecture Museum in the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design provide a rich and unparalleled resource for research into the state's social and cultural history through the lens of architecture and the built environment. The Museum is delighted therefore to offer an annual Fellowship available through the generous support of the South Australian Department for Environment and Heritage. The SA Built Heritage Research Fellowship at the Architecture Museum provides the opportunity for research into an aspect of the state's built history. The Fellowship is open to established freelance researchers or postgraduate students. Guidelines and application form and suggested topics for 2008/2009 (links below) are indicative of the requirements. Information about the 2009/2010 Fellowship will be available late in 2009.
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DEH Built Heritage Research Fellowship Guidelines and Application 2008/2009
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List of Suggested Topics for 2008/2009
The Architecture Museum publishes monographs based on the DEH Research Fellowship reports. Copies are available in the Museum and through the order form (see below).
Current Research Fellowship Holder
Melanie Cooper-Dobbin (2008-2009)
Melanie Cooper-Dobbin is researching the residential projects of the
prolific but less well-known South Australian architect Harold T Griggs.
Griggs practised for five decades from 1929 but Melanie’s focus is on his
works in the
period 1930-c.1950.
Harold T. Griggs architect, House at Magill, 1941
Previous Research Fellowship Holders
2007-2008
Carol Cosgrove, Moving to the Modern: Art Deco in South
Australian Architecture
(Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design, University of
South Australia, Adelaide), 60pp
Moving to the Modern introduces Art Deco and its relationship to the modern idiom as well as its architectural manifestations internationally, nationally and locally. The monograph explores the elements that characterise Art Deco buildings and structures, identifies architects who worked in the Art Deco style in South Australia and provides examples of their projects in metropolitan Adelaide as well as in several country towns. the 1920s-1930s, with specific reference to Art Deco architecture.
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2006-2007
Adam Dutkiewicz, Brian Claridge: Architect of Light and Space,
(Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design, University of
South Australia, Adelaide), 60pp
Adam Dutkiewicz, who was awarded the DEH Fellowship for 2006/7, focussed
his research on the architectural works of Adelaide-based architect Brian
Claridge (1924-1979) in the period c.1950 to 1970. One of the generation of
post-World War Two architects who had deep regard for the architect's
social and environmental responsibilities, as a practitioner, author and
architectural critic he contributed to public discussion and debate about
modern architecture and design.
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2005-2006
Louise Bird, Russell S Ellis: Pioneer Modernist Architect
(Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design, University of
South Australia, Adelaide), 56pp
Louise
Bird, the inaugural awardee of the Fellowship, focused her research on the
domestic architecture of Adelaide-based architect Russell Ellis (1912-1988).
Her monograph, Russell S Ellis: Pioneer Modernist Architect (Louis Laybourne
Smith School of Architecture and Design, University of South Australia,
2007), draws from the three-volume report on her investigations. The
publication is an addition to the literature on modernism in South Australia
and profiles Ellis' distinctive contribution to the introduction and
promotion of the modernist idiom in this state. It is the first in the
Architecture Museum Monograph Series.
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