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The Architects of our Arts and Crafts style Houses in Australia

Arts and Crafts architects created some of the most thoughtful, beautifully crafted and inspired architecture in Australia's history.

Arts and Crafts Architecture

Between 1890 and 1930, a number of Australian architects and garden designers were heavily influenced by British and American Arts and Crafts movements.

Arts and Crafts buildings are unpretentious and informal, evoking an atmosphere of comfortable familiarity.

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Queensland Federation style Architect and

Pioneering Arts and Crafts Architect

Robert Smith (Robin) Dods

Very few Queensland architects had contributed to the architectural advancement of their State.

Of these few, the work of Robin Smith Dods must be acknowledged the most original and vital. [1]
Robin Dods ‘produced some of the finest, most gracious and sophisticated buildings this country has seen; inventing a language that was locally responsive and internationally admired.
During his 20-year tenure with Hall & Dods, the firm he joined with Brisbane Grammar School chum Francis Hall in 1896, Dods designed about 650 residential, commercial and religious buildings. [2]

Robin Dods was a home-grown designer who “built" Brisbane, according to leading local architect and historian Robert Riddel. [1]

"Architect and Biographer Robert Riddel’s claim that Dods is “up there” with Edwin Lutyens, Robert Lorimer, Walter Tapper and Charles Voysey is no overstatement.’ [3]

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Victorian Architects Ussher and Kemp

Iconic Federation style architecture

See also Federation Queen Anne style
See also Melbourne Queen Anne

Beverley Ussher and Henry Kemp were Melbourne Architects who formed a "brilliant partnership". Both Ussher and Kemp had strong Arts and Crafts commitments, and both had been in partnerships before forming their own.[1]

Beverley Ussher (born Melbourne 1868; d Melbourne, 9 June 1908) and
Henry (Hardie) Kemp (born in Broughton, Lancashire, UK, 10 March 1859; d Melbourne, 22 April 1946)

formed a partnership in Melbourne in 1899, which lasted until Ussher's death (1908).

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Federation Architects of NSW

Sydney Architects (and their Houses)

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Federation Houses in NSW and their Architects

Federation Architects of Sydney
Federation mansions in NSW and their Architects
1. Gower
2. Babworth House
3. Fairwater
4. Hollowforth
5. The Highlands
Major NSW houses of Federation Queen Anne Style
1. Ingleholme
2. West Maling
3. Vallambrosa
4. Alba Longa
5. Hazeldean (1898)
Major NSW houses of Federation Arts and Crafts Style
1. Booloominbah
2. St Ellero,
3. Craignairn (1909)
4. Romahapa
5. Travenna, Armidale 1889
6. The Gables
7. Mornington
Major houses of Federation Bungalow Style
1. Milton Park, Bowral
2. Cassa Tasso
3. The Highlands
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Architects of Federation Housing in Victoria

Melbourne Architects

Architects Beverley Ussher and Henry Kemp were at the forefront of the development of the domestic Queen Anne in Melbourne and Australia.

Early buildings such as

Campion College (formerly Dalswraith) of 1906, (Studley Park Road, Kew) and

Woodlands of 1888 (Woodlands Street, Essendon)

were instrumental in the development of the style to suit the typical suburban form which reached its peak in the first decade of the twentieth century.

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