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(FAB10_115) A J Macdonald: Enigma and Romance in the Public Service
Neale, Anne (1999-08) (FAB10_115) A J Macdonald: Enigma and Romance in the Public Service. Fabrications : The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 10 : 115-135.
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| Author(s) |
Neale, Anne
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| Title |
(FAB10_115) A J Macdonald: Enigma and Romance in the Public Service
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| Journal name |
Fabrications : The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
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1999-08
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10
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115
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135
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Frith, Stephen
Goad, Philip
Willis, Julie
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| Subject |
310105 History of the Built Environment
430101 History - Australian
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| Abstract |
The life and work of Alexander J Macdonald (1864-1951) is one of the great enigmas of Australian architecture. While still in his twenties he produced for the Victorian Public Works
Department a body of work without rival in nineteenthcentury Australia for its extraordinary vitality and originality. Retiring almost completely from architecture at the age of thirty-two, he
pursued a career elsewhere in the public service, rising to become Chief Examiner of Patents for the Commonwealth of Australia. However he returned temporarily to the world of public architecture
in 1912 and in the following two years worked intermittently, amidst great controversy, as Walter Burley Griffin's chief assistant. Viewed in the context of forty apparently otherwise uneventful
years in the public service, the origins, inspiration, oeuvre and abandonment of Macdonald's brilliant architectural career combine the elements of enigma and romance in full
measure.
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A J Macdonald
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