Architectural movements: Journeys of an inter-colonial profession

Abstract

Migrations and movements of architects are central to understanding the architectural development of the colonial world. These journeys are usually framed as a question of where the architect originated, to determine the knowledge they brought to a place, but without understanding that their professional journey might also encompass significant intermediate points and further destinations that, likewise, fuelled knowledge and experience. Through a lens of continental Australia as a point of connection, this paper examines the professional journeys of a number of individual architects between English-speaking settlements in the British Imperial century (c.1815–1915). Their careers are traced ..