The Architectural Practice in Postwar Queensland (1945-1975): Building and Interpreting and Oral History Archive is an Australian Research Council, Linkage Project. The aim of the project is to develop an oral history resource capturing the implicit knowledge of Queensland’s postwar architects.
The project will document the histories of Queensland’s postwar architects. It will produce a new digital research resource on Queensland architecture and an exhibition which will explore the role of climate, place, innovation and sustainability in Queensland’s postwar architecture.
The stories of Queensland’s post war architects remain unrecorded. Gathering these histories into a new digital archive will produce the first comprehensive account of the individuals and firms who built Queensland’s architectural identity in the post WWII period. This will be a leading resource for scholarly research and architectural practice. By applying innovative semantic web technologies researchers will map the intellectual networks informing architectural practice and education in post-war Queensland. The history of present day concerns for place, innovation, and sustainability will be communicated with innovative multi-media technology to build new communities of interest in Queensland design, past, present and future.
The site is at https://qldarch.net