
JJ Clark
Architect of the Australian Renaissance
Andrew Dodd(Author)
UNSW Press
Published on 1. April 2012
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-74223-305-5 (ISBN)
Description
Colonial architect John James Clark was fourteen when he began practising as an architect. By the age of nineteen he had designed the Melbourne Treasury, Australia's finest Renaissance Revival building, which celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2012. Over six decades, he designed some of the most beautiful buildings in Australia and New Zealand - Melbourne's Government House, City Baths and Royal Mint as well as the Treasury Building in Brisbane and the Auckland Town Hall. While he is little-known today, when he died in 1915 he was described as 'Australia's greatest architect'. This fascinating biography reveals the inspiration and drama of Clark's controversial career, and contains original plans, elevations and previously unpublished sketches.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 206 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1021 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-74223-305-5 (9781742233055)
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Person
Andrew Dodd is an award-winning journalist, producer, and writer who lectures in journalism at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.