RAHS Evening Lecture – Portable Buildings: Port Jackson to Darwin

Event Date & Time: Wednesday, 25 September 2024 @ 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm (Doors open 5.30 pm)

Event Location: History House, 133 Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000

Cost: RAHS/AIA members $20* | Non-members $25

Event Description:

Prefabrication played an important role in Australia from the first European settlement onwards, and more examples survive here than anywhere else in the world. They include wooden houses from Singapore (none of which survive in Singapore itself); English iron buildings of the 1850s (only one of which survives in Britain); plate iron buildings from Glasgow, like the Legislative Council building in Macquarie Street (none in Scotland), redwood buildings from the USA (none), and others from Germany, France and Italy. Most are of great historical and technical interest.

About the speaker:

Professor Miles Lewis AM FAHA is an architectural historian specialising in the history of building technology and is the author of the research upon which is based the bid for UNESCO World Heritage listing of the buildings imported to Australia in the nineteenth century.

*Australian Institute of Architects members are entitled to the discount.