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The Centre for Settlement Studies brings together research expertise from several disciplines and sub-disciplines in the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design (LLS School) including sustainable architecture for remote areas; construction technology; architectural, urban design, planning and landscape history and theory; conservation and management of heritage places. Its projects take in local, national and international sites with particular focus on metropolitan, rural and remote areas and Aboriginal communities in South Australia. Members work on individual as well as collaborative projects with colleagues within the group, the LLS School and in several UniSA schools as well as with other Australian universities, the professions and the wider community. Current research interests include:
MEMBERSChristine Garnaut (Coordinator) Donald Langmead Research Assistant ASSOCIATE MEMBERS The CSS may invite associate members
to collaborate on specific projects relevant to the group’s research agenda.
These may be academics, members of the professions, industry partners or
postgraduate students. CONTACT DETAILSCoordinator Dr Christine Garnaut (Coordinator) Centre for Settlement Studies Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design University of South Australia North Terrace Adelaide 5000 AUSTRALIA
P: 8302 0204 E: christine.garnaut@unisa.edu.au
CURRENT PROJECTSCSS current projects include:
Patjaar Visitors’ Centre This project commenced in 1999 and has involved the design and construction of a Visitors’ Centre and Gallery for the Patjaar community near Warburton in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia. The building was designed in consultation with community members and prefabricated in Adelaide in the LLS School’s workshop. Students are assembling the centre over a four-week period in mid 2002 under the supervision of project coordinators David Morris and Nick Opie. The project has been funded by a grant from the Western Australian Lotteries Commission and involves collaboration with the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales. Project web site
The South Australian Home Builders’ Club functioned in metropolitan Adelaide between 1945 and 1965. The Club was a cooperative venture in which people came together to assist other members in the construction of a home. In the postwar years, with building restrictions and labour, materials and money in short supply, the Home Builders’ Club was an appealing option for those prepared to share and acquire building skills. In its heyday there were approximately 400 members. The collaborative, multi-disciplinary study is identifying and interviewing a selection of former Club members, locating and photographing surviving houses, recovering records and compiling data for dissemination in a series of scholarly journal articles and conference papers. Interviews are being conducted in collaboration with the Oral History Association of Australia (SA Branch) and the Oral History Unit of the State Library of South Australia. The research team comprises
CSS members Donald Langmead, Gini Lee and Christine Garnaut and cultural and
social historians Jean Duruz and Alison MacKinnon from the School of
Communication and New Media and the Hawke Institute respectively. As well as
architectural themes the study is investigating meanings of home, garden
design and issues of gender in the climate of postwar home building. The
project is in its second year with funding secured from several sources: a
Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences (DEASS) internal grant
(2001), City of Mitcham Community Cultural Development Grant (2001) and an
ATN grant (2002). Jackman Gooden Pilot Study Industry Partners Jackman Parken Evans and the State Library of South Australia (SLSA) have funded a pilot study (2002) that surveys the Jackman Gooden architectural firm (SA’s longest surviving continuous practice) with a view to: · locating, recording and analysing the content of extant documents including the Jackman Gooden collection (approximately 450 drawings) held by SLSA · preparing an overview of the scope and nature of the practice’s contribution to SA’s metropolitan and rural development including its architectural, social and cultural aspects · undertaking case studies of selected buildings representative of the practice’s repertoire
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designing the methodology for a more
extensive project. Woomera Village Plan This collaborative research project commenced in 2000 with funding from an internal grant from the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales (UNSW). It involves CSS member Christine Garnaut and UNSW colleagues Paul-Alan Johnson and Robert Freestone. The research focuses on the design origins and influences on the plan for Woomera Village (1946-1947) the residential facility associated with the Joint United Kingdom-Australia Long Range Weapons Project. The inquiry includes an investigation of international postwar planning theory and its application to a remote Australian service settlement.
Placecards Funded by a Centenary of Federation grant (2001), Placecards has been investigating historical traces left behind in the buildings and layout of South Australian towns ‘off the beaten track’. The architectural development of towns reflects settlers’ responses to any number of factors including geography, climate, local industry, availability of materials and residents’ resourcefulness. The outcome of their endeavours is depicted in a series of quality colour postcards illustrating local architecture and other features of the built environment in twenty towns throughout the state.
Everycity The Everycity symposia series has four themes: Terrace, Square, Edifice, River. Each deals with the contemporary city and with the multi-disciplinary nature of urban design, architecture, landscape and art practices. The Terrace seminar, held in October 2000, had an invited audience and panel comprising academics, design and art practitioners and government and business personnel. Further Everycity seminars are planned for 2002. The series is supported by a DEASS internal grant.
Individual projects Donald Johnson is engaged in developing his existing research and recently has submitted articles to refereed journals on the following subjects: Walter Burley Griffin and
Knitlock construction Neighbourhood unit House plan sources
Frank Lloyd Wright bio-bibliography Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) bibliography comprises approximately 600 annotated entries on publications by and about Wright. The book is contracted to Greenwood Press, Westport, CT.
Charles Reade’s design projects: South Australia
1916-1920 Building on her doctoral research
and funded by a RGSSA grant, Christine Garnaut is compiling an annotated and
illustrated report comprising case studies of SA Government Town Planner
Charles Reade's projects from 1916 to 1920. These include private, corporate
and local government commissions for residential subdivisions; workers'
housing; children's playgrounds; recreation parks; soldiers' memorial
gardens; and town improvement schemes in metropolitan and rural areas of the
state. Each case study includes a project history, design outline, summary
of current status and bibliographic information. Louis Laybourne Smith School of
Architecture and Design
Architecture Archive.
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