Sydney School
| Sydney School | |
|---|---|
 The Glass House, 1957 by Bill and Ruth Lucas | |
| Years active | 1950s–1970s |
| Location | Sydney, Australia |
| Major figures | Peter Muller, Bruce Rickard, Bill Lucas, Ken Woolley, Neville Gruzman, Ian McKay, Russell Jack et.al. |
| Influences | Nature, landscape, raw materials, Japanese and Scandinavian architecture, Alvar Aalto, Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Influenced | 'Sydney Bush School' of landscape architecture, Pettit & Sevitt houses (Sydney and Canberra), Merchant Builders houses (Melbourne), Graeme Gunn, Glenn Murcutt, Peter Stutchbury |
The Sydney School, sometimes referred to as 'nuts and berries style', describes an architectural typology and approach developed by a peer group of architects in Sydney, Australia who were reacting against international Modernism with their own regionalist style, over a period from the mid–1950s to the mid–1970s. In contrast to the purism of the international modernist style, they were drawn to the natural environment, topography, rustic materials, clinker bricks, low gutter lines, and often raked roof lines.[1][2] The architectural approach drew from a number of influences including Japanese and Scandinavian architecture and particularly the work of architects Alvar Aalto and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Background
First use of the term
The term 'Sydney School' is thought to be first described in an illustrated article by Milo Dunphy, published in the magazine 'Hemisphere' in August 1962, titled 'The Growth of an Australian Architecture'.[3]
A large number of other young architects in Sydney are working in this same simple vein. Bill Lucas, Bruce Rickard, lan McKay, Peter Muller, Peter Kollar, Tony Moore, Russell Jack and Neville Gruzman are some of the more prominent names in what may soon be regarded as the Sydney School, one which is at least as distinctive as the Bay Region architecture of California.
— Milo Dunphy, Architect, Sydney (1962)
Architects of the 'Sydney School'
A number of architectural critics and writers including Milo Dunphy, Jennifer Taylor and Robin Boyd referred to a loose grouping of individual architects considered to be of the 'Sydney School' approach, including among others, Peter Muller, Bill Lucas, Bruce Rickard, Bryce Mortlock, John Allen, Russell Jack,[4] John James, Neville Gruzman, Peter Johnson, Ian McKay,[5] Keith Cottier,[6] Michael Dysart, Don Gazzard, Ken Woolley and Philip Cox.[7][8][9]
Other architects including Adrian Snodgrass, Peter Kollar, Ross Thorne, Hugh Buhrich and Terry Donnough are considered fringe members of the 'School', through architectural approach or by moving into other professional positions or academic and teaching roles, and often designing few other buildings during the corresponding period.[10]
'15 Houses by Sydney Architects' exhibition 1961
In 1961 an exhibition of a new contemporary style of Sydney architecture curated by Bruce Roberston was displayed at the Blaxland Gallery on level nine of Farmers department store on George Street, Sydney for two weeks (23 August to 5 September). The exhibition titled 15 Houses by Sydney Architects was a collection of contemporary architecturally designed houses, organised by the NSW Chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and the Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, where it was exhibited later in the same month retitled as Modern Sydney Domestic Architecture, where it was reviewed by Melbourne architect Neil Clerehan, and later referred to by his local colleague, architect, writer and critic Robin Boyd.[11][12]
The 15 individual architects or firms in the exhibition included John Allen and Russell C. Jack; Ancher, Mortlock & Murray; Max Collard & Guy Clarke; Neville Gruzman; John James; L. Peter Kollar; James Kell of Powell, Mansfield and Maclurcan; W.E. (Bill) Lucas and Ruth Lucas; Ian McKay; Peter Muller; Bruce Rickard; Ross Thorne; Harry Seidler; Andrew Young (Duffield Young Associates) and Bruce S. Robertson (exhibition curator). All of the houses exhibited were located north of Sydney Harbour on the North Shore or Northern Beaches of Sydney. This initial grouping of work by mostly emerging Sydney architects and housing styles is a key influence in the early identification of a contemporary and regionally specific architecture.[13]
| No. | Architect | House (street/address) | Location (suburb) | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Allen and Russell C. Jack (Russell Jack) | 28 Trentino Road (Palmer House 1960)[15] | Turramurra | C.H. & C.R. Ellis |
| 2 | Ancher, Mortlock & Murray (Sydney Ancher) | 15 Bogota Avenue (Ancher House III, 1957)[16][17] | Neutral Bay | O'Brien & Daniel Pty. Ltd. |
| 3 | Max Collard & Guy Clarke | — | Dee Why | Warren R. Bowden |
| 4 | Neville Gruzman | 2 Mary Street (Benjamin House, 1960) | Longueville | W. Stokes & Son Pty. Ltd. |
| 5 | John James | 33 Woolwich Road (Rae Mainsbridge House, 1961) | Hunters Hill | Leo Marks |
| 6 | L. Peter Kollar | Beatty Street | Balgowlah | L.S. Booth |
| 7 | James Kell (of Powell, Mansfield and Maclurcan) | 19A Philip Road | Mona Vale | W. Miles |
| 8 | W.E. Lucas and Ruth Lucas | — (The Glass House, 1957) | Castlecrag | B. E. Sewell |
| 9 | Ian McKay | 57a Lucinda Avenue (McKay House 1960)[18] | Wahroonga | Ian McKay |
| 10 | Peter Muller | 265 Edinburgh Road (Audette House, 1953) | Castlecrag | V.R. & J. Constructions |
| 11 | Bruce Rickard | 51 Finlay Road (Rickard House I, 1959) | Warrawee | Bruce Rickard |
| 12 | Bruce S. Robertson | Richmond Road (Robertson House, 1953–1960, demolished 2000)[19] | Seaforth | Aspect Pty. Ltd. |
| 13 | Ross Thorne | (Thorne House, First Rock, 1959)[20] | St. Ives (north) | A.C. McDowell Pty. Ltd. |
| 14 | Harry Seidler | — (Waks House II, Minimbah Road, 1959) | Northbridge | J. Pringle |
| 15 | Andrew Young (Duffield Young Associates) | Ogilvy Road | Clontarf | Messrs. Grimson & Rose |
List of architects of the 'Sydney School'
| Name | Born | Birthplace | Service & Education | Influences | Mentors/Colleagues |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryce Mortlock | 14 October 1921 | Sydney | RAAF Pilot (1942–1945), University of Sydney (1946–1950) | Sydney Ancher, Ken Woolley | |
| Peter Johnson | 15 December 1923 | Armadale, Victoria | RAAF Pilot (1942–1945) University of Sydney | Kenneth McConnel | |
| Bill Lucas | 31 December 1924 | Sydney | RAAF Air Crew (1943–1946), University of Sydney (1943–1946) | Frank Lloyd Wright | 1955 to 1957, he joined the Design Group with Neville Gruzman, Ruth Harvey and Tony Moore, Milo Dunphy |
| Neville Gruzman | 14 November 1925 | Sydney | University of Sydney (1946–1950) | Frank Lloyd Wright, Japanese architecture | Bill and Ruth Lucas, Pettit & Sevitt houses |
| Russell Jack | 1925 | Sydney | RAAF, Sydney Technical College (1946–1951) | John Allen, Keith Cottier, Petitt & Sevitt houses | |
| John Allen | 1926 | Sydney | University of Sydney | Russell Jack, Keith Cottier | |
| Peter Muller | 3 July 1927 | Adelaide | University of Adelaide (1945–1948), University of Pennsylvania (1951–1952) | Frank Lloyd Wright,[21] Japanese architecture | Adrian Snodgrass, Albert Read |
| Donald Gazzard | 4 August 1929 | Sydney | University of Sydney (1947–1950) | Bauhaus | Harry Seidler, George Clarke, Petitt & Sevitt houses |
| Bruce Rickard | 1 December 1929 | Sydney | Sydney Technical College, University College London, University of Pennsylvania (1947–1954) | Frank Lloyd Wright | Sydney Ancher, Neville Gruzman, Ian McKay, Tony Moore, Harry Howard, Bruce Mackenzie, Allan Correy |
| John James[22] | 1931 | London | University of Melbourne (1949–1953) University of Sydney (1963–1966) University of NSW, 1988 PhD | Frank Lloyd Wright | Roy Grounds, Robin Boyd, Frederick Romberg, Fritz Janeba, Bruce Mackenzie |
| Adrian Snodgrass[23] | 2 April 1931 | Kyogle | East Sydney Technical College, later University of Sydney | Asian architecture (widely travelled in Asia 1957—1967) | John James, Peter Muller, Bruce Rickard, Bert Read, Neville Gruzman |
| Ian McKay | 1932 | Sydney | University of New South Wales[24] | Frank Lloyd Wright, Japanese architecture | Philip Cox, Neville Gruzman, Tony Moore, Milo Dunphy, Bruce Rickard |
| Ken Woolley | 29 May 1933 | Sydney | University of Sydney (1951–1955) | Sydney Ancher, Michael Dysart, Bryce Mortlock, Peter Webber, Peter Hall, Harry Rembert's Design Room at Government Architects Branch (Manifesto of Natural Materialism), Neil Clerehan, Pettit & Sevitt houses | |
| Michael Dysart | 8 April 1934 | Brighton, United Kingdom | University of Sydney (1955–1958) | Ken Woolley, Peter Webber, Peter Hall, Harry Rembert's Design Room at Government Architects Branch, Pettit & Sevitt houses | |
| Keith Cottier | 1938 | Sydney | Sydney Technical College (1954–1959) | John Allen, Russell Jack | |
| Philip Cox | 1 October 1939 | Sydney | University of Sydney (1957–1962) | Ian McKay | |
Locations
Sydney's North Shore and Northern Beaches
Typical Sydney School houses were predominantly located on the city's North Shore such as the Woolley House in Mosman. Other popular suburbs on the lower and upper north shore included Castlecrag, Northbridge, Hunters Hill, Turramurra, Wahroonga and the Northern Beaches, like Mona Vale, Whale Beach and Palm Beach. These suburbs generally had a good supply of more dramatic, steeper and harder–to–build–on blocks that were located adjacent to bushland and waterways, or both. With increasing affluence and car ownership these once remote locations were within easy access of jobs and schools in North Sydney and Sydney CBD.
A majority of the architects also ran their practices on the North Shore, particularly in North Sydney CBD. Ancher Mortlock Murray and Woolley were initially in Mount Street, then Ridge Street from 1966. From 1969 a shared office at 7 Ridge Street, North Sydney that included architects Bruce Rickard, Ian McKay and Harry Howard, along with Harry Seidler, Peter Myers, influential designer Gordon Andrews, graphic designers Harry Williamson and Roger Roberts and architectural photographer David Moore.[25][26] Bruce Mackenzie's landscape design and contracting practice also operated from there and it grew into Sydney's first full time private landscape architecture practices. Together with landscape architect Allan Correy and Harry Howard, Bruce Mackenzie and Bruce Rickard are credited as the founding figures of the parallel 'Sydney Bush School' of landscape architecture, working out of 7 Ridge Street from 1969 to 1977.[27] In 1973 Harry Seidler moved his office to Glen Street, Milsons Point with harbour views.[28] Other architects had offices in Cammeray, Crows Nest, Roseville and Seaforth. Neville Gruzman was always based in the Eastern Suburbs, firstly Darling Point, then Double Bay.
Sydney's Eastern Suburbs
To a lesser extent some Sydney School style houses and buildings were built in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney in the hillier suburbs like Edgecliff, Point Piper, Darling Point and Woollahra, although these were rarely located adjacent to bushland.
Canberra
A number of Sydney School architects also designed buildings in Canberra in the 1960s and 1970s on similar types of sites, often with sloping terrain and original endemic landscape. Architects including Bryce Mortlock, Ken Woolley, Russell Jack, Michael Dysart and Ian McKay all had work completed in Canberra in this period. The 1965 built Cater House at Mugga Way, Red Hill by Russell Jack of Allen, Jack and Cottier is considered one of the leading examples of the Sydney School built in Canberra, winning the 1965 Canberra Medallion.[29] Important examples of medium density housing include Swinger Hill by Ian McKay and Partners, and Urambi Village by Michael Dysart. From 1966 the Sydney-based project home builders Pettit and Sevitt built over 500 homes in Canberra with designs by 'Sydney School' architects Ken Woolley and Michael Dysart, located in the new suburbs of Belconnen, Tuggeranong, Weston Creek and Woden Valley.[30]
The 1967 offices and headquarters of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in Mugga Way, Red Hill designed by Bryce Mortlock from Ancher, Mortlock, Murray and Woolley, is a prime example of the Sydney School approach to domestic architecture applied to a larger built form. Built of white painted brick walls, dark tiled raked roofs and a courtyard form, with oiled timber interiors, on a more difficult site is highly typical of the style. The choice of architect and type of building for the institute's head office extols the rise and importance of the regional architectural approach in the mid-1960s.[31]
Snowy Mountains
The alpine villages of Thredbo and Perisher are also notable for the many ski lodges designed in Sydney School style including buildings by Peter Muller, Harry Seidler and Bill Lucas.
Melbourne
Following the exhibition of 15 Sydney Houses in Melbourne in 1961, there is a minor and contested element of influence on new local housing there in the 1960s and 1970s, with architects like Neil Clerehan, Graeme Gunn, Robin Boyd and the Merchant Builders project home company employing similar materials, forms and planning, along with a new interest in more natural settings, materials and native gardens. Elliston Estate in Rosanna (1968–1971) has common approaches to housing as seen on the North Shore of Sydney, surround by endemic gardens and parklands designed by Ellis Stones. Similar influences such as Scandinavian and Japanese architecture, Walter Burley Griffin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe are also acknowledged, if not the direct influence of Sydney architects.
Common architectural elements and materials
Influenced by Walter Burley Griffin's work in the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag, this style of Australian architecture was visually responsive to the natural environment and, like Griffin, often utilised natural local materials as structural and landscape elements.[32] The following list identifies common architectural materials, siting and massing approaches:[33]
- Endemic natural landscape setting
- Roof forms follow slope of the site
- Split level planning
- Asymmetrical massing of form
- Terracotta tiled skillion roofs
- Exposed rafters and beams
- Timber post and beam construction
- Stained or oiled internal timber
- Built in joinery
- Outdoor timber decks and courtyards
- Painted brickwork or clinker brick walls
- Stone walls
- Clerestory windows
- Timber awning sashes
- Large glass and timber sliding doors
Flat roofs or pitched roofs
There were two strongly identifiable differences in housing style, principally in the roof design. The earlier more modernist architects preferred flat roof forms, including Sydney Ancher, Peter Muller, Bill and Ruth Lucas, and Neville Gruzman. A second group principally employed pitched roofs with strong angular forms and low eaves, including Peter Johnson, Ken Woolley, Don Gazzard, Michael Dysart, Ian McKay, Bruce Rickard and Keith Cottier.
Painted brick or natural brick
Another identifiable material in the palette was masonry brickwork, with architects using either painted or whitewashed brickwork in a European style, or alternatively in a natural, fired clinker brick, taking advantage of a new ranges of brick types, colours, styles and textures that were on the market.
'Sydney School' houses
| Year | Architect | Project | Location | Notes | Notes/RAIA awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Peter Muller | Audette House[34] | 265 Edinburgh Road, Castlecrag | ||
| 1954 | Peter Muller | Bynya House | 42 Bynya Road, Whale Beach | ||
| 1954 | John Lindsay Sever | Sever House | 34 Barons Crescent, Hunters Hill | ||
| 1955 | Bill Lucas | Kearns House | Sylvania | ||
| 1955 | Peter Muller | Walcott House[35] | 40 Bynya Road, Whale Beach |
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| 1957 | Russell Jack | Jack House | 62 Boundary Road, Wahroonga |
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| 1957 | Sydney Ancher | Ancher House III[37][38] | 15 Bogota Avenue, Neutral Bay | ||
| 1957 | Bill and Ruth Lucas | The Glass House[39] | 80 The Bulwark, Castlecrag |
Note: 2024 awards presented to Cracknell & Lonergan Architects for heritage work | |
| 1958 | Neville Gruzman | Gruzman House[41] | 4–8 Oswald Street, Darling Point | ||
| 1958 | Bruce Rickard | Cohen House | 23 Rembrandt Drive, Middle Cove | ||
| 1959 | Bruce Rickard | Rickard House I (later Evatt House) | 51 Finlay Road, Warrawee | ||
| 1959 | Arthur Baldwinson | Simpson-Lee House I | 23 Roland Avenue, Wahroonga | ||
| 1959 | Ross Thorne | Thorne House (First Rock)[42] | St Ives | ||
| 1960 | Neville Gruzman | Benjamin House | 2 Mary Street, Longueville | ||
| 1960 | Frank Cavalier | Own House | 10 Thorn Street, Hunters Hill | ||
| 1960 | Ian McKay | McKay House[43] | Wahroonga | ||
| 1960 | Russell Jack | Palmer House[44] | 28 Trentino Road, Turramurra | ||
| 1961 | Donald Gazzard | Herbert Residence | 12 Ellesmore Avenue, Hunters Hill |
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| 1962 | Bruce Rickard | Rickard House II | 10 Kokoda Avenue, Turramurra | ||
| 1962 | Ken Woolley | Woolley House (later Hesketh House) | 34 Bullecourt Avenue, Mosman | ||
| 1963 | Allen Jack and Cottier (Russell Jack) | Jacobs Residence[45][46] | 36 Cleveland Street, Wahroonga |
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| 1964 | Peter Johnson | RN Johnson Residence[47][48][49] | 29 Greville Street, West Chatswood |
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| 1966 | John James | John & Hilary James House | 26 Musgrave Street, Mosman | ||
| 1969 | Philip Cox | Hawkins Residence | 19 Norma Crescent, Cheltenham |
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| 1969 | Frank Cavalier | Cavalier Residence | 16 Lloyd Avenue, Hunters Hill[50] | ||
| 1972 | Hugh Buhrich | Buhrich House II | 375 Edinburgh Road, Castlecrag | late | |
| 1976 | Richard Leplastrier | Palm Grove House | Bilgola | late | |
Other buildings
Whilst Sydney School is often associated with new freestanding houses there are a number of other buildings considered within the approach, mostly designed and built in the 1960s. The award-winning 1963 St Andrews Presbyterian Agricultural College Boys Home[51] and 1965 Tocal College both by Ian McKay and Philip Cox are key examples. The 1966 brick walled and raked tiled roofed of Clubbe Hall at Frensham School by Keith Cottier is also a highly regarded in the context of the Sydney School, and was awarded the 1966 Blacket Prize and the 2026 New South Wales Enduring Architecture Award 60 years later.[52]
The St Andrew's Boys Home buildings by McKay and Cox were summarised by Archaeological and Heritage Management Solutions (AHMS) in a 2013 heritage report stating: “The former St Andrew’s Home for Boys is a significant example of the Sydney School architectural style of the mid twentieth century, which was an influential style in its era and was practised by notable Australian architects."[53]
The 1967 Shortland Building and 1969 Staff House at the University of Newcastle both by Ancher, Mortlock, Murray and Woolley (Ken Woolley) are highly regarded in the Sydney School canon, and both received the Blacket Prize. The 1970 Rothbury Estate Winery in the Hunter Valley by Allen Jack and Cottier (Keith Cottier) is also considered to have strong Sydney School attributes and was also awarded Blacket Prize at the time.
| Year | Architect | Project | Location | Notes | Notes/AIA awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Peter Muller | Richardson Ski Lodge 'Manohara' (now Wombiana Chalet)[54] | 5 Buckwong Place, Thredbo Village, NSW | Accommodation | For Garry Richardson (son of Mervyn Victor Richardson) |
| 1963 | Bill Lucas with Marion Hall Best | Moonbah Ski Lodge (1956–1963) | 14 Diggings Terrace, Thredbo | Accommodation | |
| 1963 | Ian McKay and Philip Cox Architects in Association | St Andrews Presbyterian Agricultural College Boys Home (demolished) | 1050 Camden Valley Way, Leppington | Education |
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| 1964 | NSW Government Architect: Ted Farmer with Peter Hall | Goldstein College & Dining Hall[55] | University of New South Wales, Kensington Campus | Education |
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| 1965 | Donald Gazzard | Wentworth Memorial Church (1963–1965) | 32B Fitzwilliam Road, Vaucluse | Religion | |
| 1965 | Ian McKay and Philip Cox Architects in Association | Tocal College (CB Alexander Campus) | 815 Tocal Road, Paterson | Education |
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| 1965 | Harry Seidler & Associates | Lend Lease Company Lodge/Dusseldorp Ski Lodge[56] (now Seidler Lodge) | 8 Diggings Terrace, Thredbo | Accommodation |
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| 1966 | Allen Jack and Cottier (Keith Cottier) | Clubbe Hall, Frensham School | Waverley Parade and Range Road, Mittagong | Education |
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| 1967 | Ancher, Mortlock, Murray and Woolley (Ken Woolley) | Union Building (Shortland Building) | Shortland Lane, Callaghan, University of Newcastle | Education |
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| 1967 | Ancher, Mortlock, Murray and Woolley (Ken Woolley) (landscape by Bruce Mackenzie) | The Penthouses[57] | 60 New Beach Road, Darling Point | Multiresidential |
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| 1967 | John James (landscape by Bruce Mackenzie) | Reader's Digest Building (1964—1967) | 26-32 Waterloo Street, Surry Hills | Commercial | |
| 1967 | Ancher, Mortlock, Murray and Woolley (Ken Woolley) | RAIA Headquarters | 2a Mugga Way, Red Hill, Canberra | Commercial | |
| 1969 | Ancher, Mortlock, Murray and Woolley (Ken Woolley & Glenn Murcutt) | Staff House | University of Newcastle, Shortland Lane, Callaghan, Newcastle | Education |
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| 1970 | Allen Jack and Cottier (Keith Cottier) | Rothbury Estate Winery | 2213 Broke Road, Pokolbin | Commercial |
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See also
Notes
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