The Sydney School, also the Nuts and Berries style, refers to an architectural style by a group of architects in Australia who reacted against
international Modernism with their own regionalist style during the 1960s. In contrast to the purism of the international style, they were drawn to rustic materials, clinker bricks, low gutter lines, and raked roof lines rather than flat roof lines.
This loose collection of architects, comprising, among others,
Peter Muller,
Bill Lucas,
Bruce Rickard
Bruce Rickard (1 December 1929 – 22 September 2010; born Bruce Arthur Lancelot Rickard) was an Australian architect and landscape designer.
Throughout his career, he was involved with the production of commercial, landscape and urban plan ...
,
John James,
Neville Gruzman
Neville Gruzman, AM (14 November 1925 – 1 May 2005) was an Australian architect, mayor of Woollahra, writer and architectural activist. He is considered to have exerted a decisive influence on Sydney's architecture, mostly through his dedi ...
and
Ken Woolley
Kenneth Frank Charles Woolley, AM B Arch, Hon DSc Arch Sydney LFRAIA, FTSE, Architect, (29 May 1933 – 25 November 2015) was an Australian architect. In a career spanning 60 years, he is best known for his contributions to project housing wit ...
, favoured organic and natural houses, often built on steep slopes and hidden from view in natural bushland. These projects were largely on the city's
North Shore North Shore or Northshore may refer to:
Geographic features Australia
*North Shore (Sydney), a suburban region of Sydney
**Electoral district of North Shore
**North Shore railway line, Sydney
*Noosa North Shore, Queensland
* North Shore, New So ...
such as
Woolley's own house, and to a lesser extent in the
Eastern Suburbs. The alpine villages of
Thredbo
Thredbo is a village and ski resort in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, situated in a part of the Snowy Monaro Regional Council, and has been operated by Event Hospitality and Entertainment since 1987.
It is approximately ...
and
Perisher are also notable for the many ski lodges designed in this style.
Following on from
Walter Burley Griffin
Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876February 11, 1937) was an American architect and landscape architect. He is known for designing Canberra, Australia's capital city and the New South Wales towns of Griffith and Leeton. He has been cr ...
's work in the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag, this style of Australian architecture was visually sensitive to the environment and, like Griffin, often utilised natural local materials as structural elements.
See also
*
List of heritage houses in Sydney
Notes
References
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* {{Cite book , last = Jahn , first = Graham , title = Sydney Architecture , publisher = The Watermark Press , year = 1997 , location = Sydney , pages = 160 , isbn = 0-949284-32-7
Architecture in Australia