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Medievalism at the Foundations
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This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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<p>Newspaper Article:</p>
<p><span><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32049693" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: blue; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32049693</span></span></a></span></span></p>
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University Buildings. 51 Competitive Designs.
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Adjudicators’ report, Administration Building, architect, architecture, Athelson Saw, benefactor, bequest, commemoration, competition, Conrad Sayce, Crawley, “Early Western Australian Renaissance†style, Great Gate, great hall, Hackett Hall, Leslie Wilkinson, loggia, monument, Rodney Alsop, Romanesque style, Senate, Senate Chamber, senators, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916), The University of Western Australia, tower, university buildings, Western Australia, Winthrop Hall
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;">In 1926, an architectural competition invited new designs for Winthrop Hall and the Hackett Memorial Buildings at The University of Western Australia. </span><a name="12de6d791188df37__GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A bequest by the University’s first Chancellor, Sir John Winthrop Hackett, had provided £150,000 for this purpose. This article from the <em>West Australian</em> informs readers of the competition’s outcome. It identifies Melbourne architects Rodney Alsop and Conrad Sayce as the winners, Donald H. McMorran from Harrow-on-the-Hill as the first runner-up and Gummer and Ford from Auckland as the second runner-up. The article reports that 51 designs had been considered by the panel, which was comprised of Professor Leslie Wilkinson, Professor of Architecture, Mr A. R. L. Wright, President of the Royal Institute of Architects of Western Australia and Dr Athelson Saw, the Chancellor of the University, and that they had particularly commended the general layout and the design for the great hall, the loggia and the tower in the winning design. The conditions of the competition had stipulated that the winner would be employed as the architect for the project unless the adjudicators in consultation with the Senators objected. During this discussion, Professor Ross asked what style the winning design represented. Professor Wilkinson is reported to have answered “it is in the style which our grandsons will call ‘Early Western Australian Renaissance’.” <span> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Construction of the buildings began soon after, and Winthrop Hall was officially opened in April 1932. Alsop and Sayce began the project together, although Alsop was the senior architect and assumed responsibility for all correspondence about the project, but fell out in the process and Sayce left before the buildings were completed. One of their disagreements centred on Alsop’s replacement of the original clock tower with an Italian style campanile. For more information, see R. J. Ferguson, <em>Crawley Campus: The Planning and Architecture of The University of Western Australia</em>, (University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1993), pp. 24-33. </span></span></span></p>
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Anon.
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National Library of Australia
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The West Australian
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31 August 1927, p. 11.
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The West Australian
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Newspaper Article
“Early Western Australian Renaissance†style
Adjudicators’ report
Administration Building
architect
architecture
Athelson Saw
benefactor
bequest
commemoration
competition
Conrad Sayce
Crawley
Great Gate
Great Hall
Hackett Hall
Leslie Wilkinson
loggia
monument
Rodney Alsop
Romanesque style
Senate
Senate Chamber
senators
Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916)
The University of Western Australia
tower
university buildings
Western Australia
Winthrop Hall
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https://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/files/original/hacket-buildings_the-architects-description_western-mail_21-april-1932_pp13-14_93621bff86.pdf
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Medievalism at the Foundations
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This Collection illustrates how medievalism has always existed ‘in plain view’ in Australian public life, as a conspicuous cultural memory ghosting Australia’s modernity. It focuses on discourses about, debates over, and changing interpretations of i) Australia’s medievalist political and religious institutions and rituals, ii) its architecture, and iii) its civic environment. In this Collection are items relating to all three of these key areas. Firstly, you will find items that point to the medieval influences and inflections that still permeate and influence our political, legal and religious institutions and traditions. Secondly, you will find numerous examples of neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture, and some cases where architectural features are known to have been modelled on specific medieval buildings. Thirdly, you will find items relating to the ways in which medievalism is incorporated into our civic environments and expressed through statues, monuments and war memorials.
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Newspaper Article taken from <em>The Western Mail:<br /><br /></em><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38891565" target="_blank"><span lang="EN">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38891565</span></a>
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Hackett Buildings. The Architect’s Description.
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architecture, architect, gothic architecture, gothic revival, neo-gothic, Arts and Administration Building, cloisters, commemoration, coogee stone, Court of Honour, dais, George Benson, Great Gate, great hall, Hackett Hall, jarrah flooring, library, marble flooring, monument, Mervyn Napier Wallace, Rodney Alsop, Romanesque style, rose window, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916), The University of Western Australia, vaulted ceilings, Winthrop Hall
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This article provides a description of Winthrop Hall and the Hackett Buildings at the University of Western Australia by the architect, Rodney Alsop, shortly after they were opened in 1932. Alsop describes the guidelines he was set, namely that there was to be a multi-functional hall capable of seating a large number of people, two other buildings that would house lecture rooms, offices, the University administration, the Guild and a refectory, and that the buildings were to be monumental in order to adequately commemorate their founder, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916). Alsop explains his rationale for the lay out of the buildings along three sides of the Court of Honour, (with the fourth side open to what was then known as the Perth-Fremantle road) and the addition of ‘cloisters’ along the front of the Hackett Hall and the Arts and Administration Building as an attempt to unify the different buildings. He refers to Winthrop Hall repeatedly as a ‘great hall’ and describes its shape as rectangular with transepts at the ends of the dais “after the tradition of the halls of Englandâ€. He also describes some of its main features, including the rose window and elaborately patterned ceiling in the hall, and the vaulted ceiling, marble floor and colourful mosaics in the foyer.
The architecture is influenced by the Romanesque style of the medieval period, which is suggested by the semi-circular arches, stone columns, arcading, thick walls and large square tower. However, the architect stops short of saying this definitively. On the style from which the architectural design for the buildings was developed, Alsop initially states that “it arose as the natural outcome of the planning, combined with the study of the architecture of older countries, with climate and other conditions not unlike those in Western Australiaâ€. Later in the article, he elaborates slightly: “While the ancestry of the style used is undoubtedly Italian, it has been anglicised and adapted to the local conditions, and cannot be called Italian, Spanish, or any other foreign style. It is my conception of architecture suitable for the University of Western Australia.â€
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National Library of Australia
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The Western Mail
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21 April 1932, pp.13-14.
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English
architect
architecture
Arts and Administration Building
Cloisters
commemoration
coogee stone
Court of Honour
dais
George Benson
gothic architecture
Gothic Revival
Great Gate
Great Hall
Hackett Hall
jarrah flooring
library
marble flooring
Mervyn Napier Wallace
monument
neo-Gothic
Rodney Alsop
Romanesque style
rose window
Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916)
The University of Western Australia
vaulted ceilings
Winthrop Hall