Architecture Museum exhibitions
The Architecture Museum mounts changing displays in its dedicated display areas.
Its inaugural major exhibition, ‘Unwrapped’, an expose of its holdings, coincided with the Museum’s official opening in May 2005.
‘Unwrapped’
An exhibition of items from the collections of the Architecture Museum, held in the SASA Gallery, Kaurna Building, 24-27 May 2005
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Architectural Preludes: 100 years of student drawings
Celebrating One Hundred Years of Architecture and Design Education in South
Australia
26 September - 6 October 2006, reveals the Museum’s holdings of student work and marks the centenary of the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design. Keith Neighbour AM will launch the exhibition on Wednesday 27 September at 6.30pm.
In 2006 the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design
celebrates its centenary year. The second oldest school of architecture
in Australia, it was originally associated with the South Australian
School of Mines and Industries (established in 1889), an antecedent
institution of the University of South Australia. Adelaide-based
architect Louis Laybourne Smith (1880-1965), the inaugural Head of
School, established the architecture course following his appointment in
1906 as Registrar of the School of Mines. The course offered formal
academic training in subjects such as the history of architecture and
drawing. Students studied part-time and worked as articled pupils in
architects’ offices where they gained practical knowledge and
experience.
Over its one hundred years the school has taught a range of subjects and
courses related to the built environment. In addition to architecture
and interior design, building, town planning and landscape architecture
have all been offered. The school’s various names, including the School
of Architecture and Building, the School of Architecture, Building and
Planning, and the School of the Built Environment, point to its rich and
diverse history. Today, as the Louis Laybourne Smith School of
Architecture and Design (LLS School), it offers programs in
Architecture, Interior Architecture and Industrial Design.
‘Architectural Preludes: One Hundred Years of Student Drawing’ examines
shifts in the theoretical approaches to design education from the days
of the School of Mines through to the present. It focuses on measured
and design drawings influenced by Beaux-Arts, modernist and
postmodernist thought as well as by the broader context of the times in
which they were produced.
The exhibition has evolved from research being undertaken by LLS School
PhD candidate Susan Collins for her forthcoming thesis titled, ‘Traces
that remain: the contextual significance of historical architectural
drawings’. Drawings in the exhibition have been selected from the
collections of the LLS School’s Architecture Museum. The Museum’s
Collections Manager Julie Collins and Susan Collins have curated the
exhibition and prepared an essay for the accompanying catalogue.
