“Lust for Lifestyle: Modern Adelaide Homes 1950-1965,” at the State Library of South Australia, 3 December 2021-24 July 2022

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Notes

1. For a study of Alan Farrelly’s column in the Newcastle Morning Herald, see Paul Hogben, “Unlocking Newcastle’s Modernist Domestic Architecture,” in Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand: 37, What If? What Next? Speculations on History’s Futures, edited by Kate Hislop and Hannah Lewi (Perth: SAHANZ, 2020), 111–123.

2. This house was later purchased by Kim Bonython who resided there from 1955 until the completion of his new house in Leabrook in 1965 (also featured in the exhibition). Bonython built an addition to the Tennyson house to hang his collection of modern Australian paintings.

3. As an instrument to develop this research and promote public awareness, the University of Adelaide and State Library of South Australia have launched an online platform entitled Adelaide Modern/ADLmodern (https://adlmodern.com) which provides access to digital copies of archival drawings, plans, and other types of material related to the modern houses of Adelaide.

4. Mark Jarzombek, “‘Good Life Modernism’ and Beyond: The American House in the 1950s and 1960s, A Commentary,” Cornell Journal of Architecture 4 (1991): 78.

5. See commentary by James Curry within his recorded introduction to the exhibition (December 3, 2021). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAp9UFB70Jc.