Collection: Reference

Beginning with Aboriginal dwellings, the evolution of urban and rural housing is traced, from 1788 to 1980s.

This book explores the Sydney Opera House's gestation, development and completion. It looks at the individuals whose careers were made or broken, the workers who built it, the politicians, architects and members of the public who championed it.

Charts innovations in engineering and building construction from Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling.

This text explores the spread of Buddhism and shrine-building throughout Asia. It features architectural plans, elevations and diagrams covering a range of places from the Potala to Thuparama Dagaba.

Examines every aspect of Bruno Leti's work as a painter and printmaker and advances a claim for his leading role in the development of the monotype and of the artists book in this country.

Celebrates the late modern and contemporary Australian collections of the Queensland Art Gallery, released as part of the opening program for the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)

More than 160 works from the Queensland Art Gallery's Australian Art collection from the period 1850-1965

A-Z entries accompanied by photographs, maps, site plans and charts. In these pages you will find clear explanations and descriptions of the major ideas, events and personalities that shaped over four thousand years of civilization in the Nile Valley.