The Architecture of Van Diemen’s Land Timber

Abstract

Van Diemen’s Land timber-getting enterprises, one of the colony’s early nineteenth-century commodity-based industries, provided a crucial infrastructure for colonial architecture, generating material, components, and revenue for building. Its own architecture was dispersed and disparate, with places of material production and consumption interlinked by tracks, rivers, and coastal and oceanic shipping routes. To date, its sites have been the territory of archaeologists and historians rather than architectural historians. Yet, physically intertwined and instrumental in the construction of the colony’s early landmark buildings, and intersecting with other networks of constructional, engineering..