#22394 - Donald McDonald

Resource ID

Location

22394

Ingram Compactus

Title/subtitle

Donald McDonald

Author/Creator

McDonald, Don

Format

Collection

Physical description

Papers

Summary

These are research papers collected by Don McDonald for his article entitled 'Architect J.S. Murdoch and the Provisional Parliament House ' published in the Canberra Historical Journal No. 15 March 1985 (and perhaps for other articles and talks?)

Notes

Folder 1: John Smith Murdoch; other Australian architects and town planners; Royal Victorian Institute of Architects; Comments on Walter Burley Griffin's design for Canberra; Clash between Murdoch and Griffin; Architecture generally; Town Planning; Provisional Parliament House; Report of the Royal Commission; The buildings of Canberra; Power House; Curtailment of expenditure; Effects of World War 1; Construction of Canberra; Housing for workmen; Federal City Plans; Engineers in Australia 1788-1890; maps of Sydney – 1874 & 1879; list compiled by the National Library relating to early Canberra.
Folder 2: Includes items mainly concerned with Provisional Parliament House, plans for, erection of, comments about, committees for competitions for design, competition withdrawn owing to European Crisis, Kurrajong Hill v. Camp Hill, Federal Capital Advisory Committee, plans for the Parliamentary Triangle, Griffin's plan & Departmental plan, Examples of public buildings from other cities. Copies of articles and cuttings are mainly from the following journals - "Building" (ed. G.A. Taylor), "The Salon", "Architecture", "R.V.I.A. Journal", Public Works Standing Committee Reports, Commonwealth Parliamentary Papers, Senate Journal, House of Reps – Parliamentary Debates, Federal Capital Administration papers; from Newspapers c.1910-1950s - Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, Canberra Times, The Age, The Argus, Queanbeyan Age.