List of Australian Architects - B

• Benjamin Backhouse

• Born Ipswich, England 1829
• Arrived Australia 1852
• Died Sydney 29 July 1904

• Geelong, Ballarat, Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle, and Bathurst

• Walter Bagot
• Apprenticed to
  E J Woods
• Architecture King's College London University of London

• Born North Adelaide 17 March 1880
• Died North Adelaide 27 July 1963

• Woods & Bagot
• Woods, Bagot, Laybourne-Smith & Irwin
• South Australia

• Inter-War Academic Classical

• St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide (1907–45)
• Chapel of the Convent of Mercy, Adelaide
• St Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Adelaide, additions
• Bonython Hall, University of Adelaide (1936)
• Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide

• Arthur Baldwinson
  Architecture Gordon Institute of Technology, Geelong, Victoria

• Born Kallaroo 26 February 1908
• Died Royal North Shore Hospital 25 August 1969

Worked with:

• Raymond McGrath (London)
• E Maxwell Fry & Walter Gropius (London)
• Stephenson & Meldrum (Sydney)

Partners:

• John Oldham
• Charles Sylvester-Booth
• Charles Peters
• Geoffrey Twibill

• Post-War International

• Coomaditchy Lagoon housing project, Port Kembla (1938)
• Collins House, Palm Beach (1938)
• Kingsford Smith House, Pittwater (1939)
• Maritime Services Board ferry wharves, Manly and Circular Quay (1940)
• Foot/Haxton House, Clareville (1949)
• Max Dupain House, Castlecrag (1952)
• Baldwinson House, Greenwich (1953)
• Hotel Belmont, Belmont (1956) Sulman Medal

• James Barnet
• Apprenticed to a builder
• Studied drawing and design under William Dyce
• Studied architecture with C J Richardson

• Born Arbroath, Scotland 1827
• Arrived Australia December 1854
• Died Sydney 16 December 1904

• Clerk of Works, University of Sydney
• NSW Colonial Architect
  (1862-90)
• New South Wales

• Victorian Italianate
• Victorian Free Classical
• Victorian Mannerist

• Defence works, Port Jackson, Botany Bay and Newcastle
• Courthouses, lock-ups, police stations and post offices throughout New South Wales
• Macquarie Lighthouse, replacement, Vaucluse
• Australian Museum, College Street, Sydney
• General Post Office, Martin Place, Sydney
• Colonial Secretary's Office, Macquarie Street, Sydney
• Lands Department, Bridge Street, Sydney
• Customs House, Circular Quay
• Medical School, University of Sydney
• Callan Park Lunatic Asylum, Rozelle
• Tarban Creek Asylum, Gladesville
• Garden Palace, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

• Nahum Barnet
• Early career as insurance clerk
• Articled to Leonard Terry and Percy Oakden (Terry & Oakden)

• Born Swanston Street, Melbourne 16 August 1855
• Died St Kilda 1 September 1931

• Worked with John Harry Grainger
• Victoria

• Victorian Free Gothic
• Federation Free Classical
• Inter-War Academic Classical

• Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne
• Auditorium, Collins Street, Melbourne
• Austral Building, Collins Street, Melbourne
• Wertheim Piano Factory
• Melbourne Synagogue, Toorak Road, South Yarra (1928)

• Hillson Beasley

• Born 1855
• Died 1936

• Principal Architect (Western Australia)
• Western Australia

• Federation Romanesque
• Federation Free Style
• Federation Arts & Crafts

• Swan Barracks, Perth (1898)
• Fremantle Post Office, Fremantle, Market St (1907)
• Perth Modern School, West Building, Roberts Road, Perth (1910)

• Guilford Bell
• Articled to Lange L Powell
• Architecture Central Technical College
• Studied under Professor Sir Albert Richardson, London

• Born Brisbane 21 December 1912
• Died Melbourne 9 January 1992

• John A. La Gerche

Partners

• Neil Clerehan
• Graham Fisher
• Victoria and New South Wales

• Post War International
• Post War Melbourne Regional
• Late 20th century Stripped Classical
• Late 20th century International

• ANA Air Terminal, Philip Street, Sydney (1948)
• Hayman Island Resort, Hayman Island, Queensland (1952)
• Hordern House, Point Piper (1956) demolished
• Santosa, Albany Road, Toorak (1963)
• Myer House, Yulgibar Station, Grafton (1966) restoration and alteration
• Gordon House, Birkenburn Station, Bungendore (1968)
• Fairfax Pavilion, Retford Park, Bowral (1969)

• William G. Bennett

• Born 1896
• Died 1977

• Western Australia

• Inter-War Art Deco

• Regal Theatre, Subiaco
• Gledden Building, Perth
• Raffles Hotel, Applecross
• Plaza Theatre, Perth
• Beaucott Buildings, Mount Lawley
• Nedlands Park Masonic Hall, Nedlands

• Raymond Berg

• RAIA Gold Medal (1974)

• John Bibb

• Born 1810
• Died 1862

• James Birrell

• Queensland

• RAIA Gold Medal (2005)

• James Blackburn (architect)

• Born 1803
• Died 1854

• Old Colonial Grecian
• Old Colonial Gothic Picturesque
• Victorian Italianate
• Victorian Romanesque
• Victorian Rustic Gothic

• Church Ruin, Port Arthur (1836)
• St Mark's Anglican Church, Pontville (1841)
• St Matthew's Presbyterian Church, Glenorchy
• Congregational Church, New Town (1842)
• Lady Franklin Museum, Lenah (1843)
• The Grange, Campbelltown (1840s)

• Arthur Blackett

• Born Sydney 1848
• Died 1929

• Blackett & Son
• Blacket Brothers (1883–85)
• New South Wales

• Victorian Romanesque

• Cyril Blackett

• Born Sydney 1857
• Died Manly 1937

• Blackett & Son
• Blacket Brothers (1883–85)
• New South Wales

• Victorian Academic Gothic
• Victorian Romanesque

• All Saints Anglican Church, tower addition, Bodalla (1901)

• Edmund Blackett

• Born Surrey 25 August 1817
• Arrived Australia 1842
• Died Petersham 9 February 1883

• NSW Colonial Architect
  (1849-54)
• Blackett & Sons
• New South Wales

• Victorian Academic Gothic
• Victorian Free Gothic
• Victorian Rustic Gothic

• Great Hall University of Sydney
• St. Paul's College, Sydney
• Anglican Churches, St Mark's Darling Point, St Paul's Redfern, St Philip's Church, Sydney, St Paul's Carcoar, St Mary's West Maitland, St Paul's Burwood St Stephen's Newtown All Saints' Woollahra, St Saviour's Goulburn, St Peter's East Maitland, St Thomas's North Sydney and St Stephen's Willoughby

• William Blackett

• Born 1873
• Died 1962

• Gorrie Blair

• Born Scotland 1862

• NSW Government Architect
  (1923-26)
• New South Wales

• Several NSW War Memorials
• Court House, Katoomba
• Wards 24 and 25, Callan Park

• Harold Boas

• Born Adelaide 27 September 1883
• Died Subiaco 17 September 1980

• M. F. Cavanagh & Austin Bastow
• Oldham, Boas, Ednie-Brown & Partners
• Western Australia

• King's Picture Theatre (1905)
• Nedlands Park Hotel (1907)
• Radio station 6WF (1924)
• Edith Dircksey Cowan Memorial (1934)
• Emu Brewery (1938)
• Adelphi Hotel
• London Court (1937)
• Gledden Building (1938)

• Robin Boyd

• Born 1917
• Died 1971

• Grounds, Romberg & Boyd

• Post-War Melbourne Regional

• RAIA Gold Medal (1969)

• Alfred Brown

• Born 1893
• Died 1976

• Henry Budden CBE
• Articled to Harry Kent
• Architecture Sydney Technical College
• Royal Academy

• Born Rockley, New South Wales 11 August 1871
• Died Sydney, New South Wales 25 December 1944

• Sir Austin Webb
• Kent & Budden (1899–1912)
• Kent Budden & Greenwell (1912–19)
• Budden & Greenwell (1919–22)
• H E Budden (1922-40)
• Budden & Nangle (1940–44)
• New South Wales

• Federation Arts and Crafts
• Federation Bungalow
• Inter-War Stripped Classical
• Inter-War Art Deco

• Houses at 41 & 43 Woolwich Road, Hunters Hill (1898)
• Houses at 2 & 4 Prince Edward Parade, Hunters Hill (1898)
• Houses at 1 & 3 Prince Edward Parade, Hunters Hill (1912)
• Emu Creek, Emu Creek Road, Walcha (1908)
• Mothers and Wives Memorial to Soldiers Woolloomooloo (1922)
• David Jones, Elizabeth Street, Sydney (1925)
• Brassey House, Barton ACT (1927)
• Railways House, 19 York Street, Sydney (1936) Sulman Medal
• Transport House, Macquarie Street, Sydney (1938)
• Metropolitan Water Sewerage & Drainage Board Building, Pitt Street, Sydney (1939)

• Walter Bunning CMG
• Architecture Sydney Technical College
• Town Planning Regent Street Polytechnic, London

• Born South Brisbane 19 May 1912
• Died Bondi Junction 13 October 1977

• Carlyle Greenwell
• Stephenson & Meldrum
• H Ruskin Rowe
• Bunning & Madden
• New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory

• Post-War & Late 20th century International
• Late 20th century Stripped Classical

• Bunning House, Ryrie Street, Mosman (1952)
• ANZAC House, College Street, Sydney (1957) RIBA Bronze Medal
• Liner House, Bridge Street, Sydney (1962) Sir John Sulman Medal
• Bruce Hall, Australian National University (1961)
• International House, University of Sydney (1967)
• National Library of Australia (1968)
• Homes in the Sun (Published 1945)

• Gregory Burgess

• Late 20th century Post-Modern

• RAIA Gold Medal (2004)

• Walter Butler
• Articled to Alexander Lauder (Barnstaple)

• Born Somerset, England 24 March 1864
• Arrived Australia 1888
• Died 1949

• J D Sedding (London)

Partners

• Beverley Ussher
• George Inskip
• Ernest Bradshaw
• Richard Butler (Nephew)
• Marcus Martin
• Hugh Pettit

• Federation Arts & Crafts

• Residences in Victoria
• Anglican Cathedral, Wangaratta (1907)
• Christ Church Anglican, Benalla (1910)
• Collins House, Melbourne (1910)
• Queensland Insurance Building, Melbourne (1911)
• Edzell, additions, St Georges Road, Toorak (1917)
• Coombe Cottage, lodge and gatehouse, Coldstream (1925)
• Bank branches for the Union Bank of Australia
• Modern Architectural Design (Published 1902)
• Healthy Homes (Published 1902)

• Richard Butterworth

• RAIA Gold Medal (1986)