Australian residential architectural styles
architectural styles
Richard Apperly, Robert Irving, & Peter Reynolds
The Australian Ugliness
In Australia, the Victorian Mannerist style takes is place between Victorian Academic Classical and Victorian Free Classical style, combining the scholarly rigour of the former with the permissiveness of the latter.
"In Australia, the artificial background of life is all highs and lows. A modernistic folly in multi-coloured brickwork may sit next door to a Georgian mansionette on one side and a sensible work of architectural exploration on the other."
A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture; Styles and Terms from 1788 to the Present