Postgraduate opportunities
The Architecture Museum offers a diverse and rich array of sources for postgraduate projects in fields including built environment history and theory, visual art and design, social history and gender studies. The Museum’s Finding Aids provide an indication of the type and range of resources available. Enquiries about postgraduate study may be made to the Director, Dr Christine Garnaut (e: christine.garnaut@unisa.edu.au; p: +61 8 8302 0204) and/or to the LLS School Research Degrees Coordinator Dr Robert Crocker (email: robert.crocker@unisa.edu.au; ph. 61 8 302 0206)
PhD
Candidate: Susan Collins (Ph.D in Architecture)
Thesis title: 'Traces that remain: the contextual significance of
historical architectural drawings'
Image: Russell S. Ellis and Russell and Yelland, Air Raid Precautions – Adelaide Oval, 1940, LLSAM S98/7/1 (click for enlargement)>>
This thesis is concerned with the architectural drawing as a contextual record. Contrary to the popular conception, and study, of architectural drawings as primarily expressions of architects’ ideas, this research establishes how the architectural drawing is the product of the context in which it was made. Through the interpretation of significant, but often overlooked, architectural drawing types the thematic development of the drawing from the early to mid twentieth century is traced. This thesis draws on the collection of historical architectural drawings held by the Architecture Museum, Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design, University of South Australia. Through the study of both drawings from architectural education and architectural practice, from a common contextual period, the differing effect of the context can be interpreted. Some drawings were influenced by cultural concerns, others by social and technical forces, such as the drawings produced during World War Two (as illustrated), but all of the drawings firmly illustrate a wider concept of architecture – one which is not only about architectural intentions
Image:
Harold T. Griggs, Plan of Proposed Air Raid Shelter for the Ramsgate
Hotel, Henley Beach, January 1942, LLSAM S167/856/1
(click for
enlargement)>>
Publication
Collins, S. (2004) ‘Atelier Adelaide: Architectural Student Drawings from the early 1930s’ in LIMITS: Proceedings from the 21st Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, 105-110.