Australian residential architectural styles
description: architectural styles
subject: Category:Housing in Australia
subject: Category:Architecture in Australia
author: Richard Apperly, Robert Irving, & Peter Reynolds
author: Robin Boyd (architect)
source: The Australian Ugliness
text: 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.
text: "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."
title: A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture; Styles and Terms from 1788 to the Present