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Empire, education and nationalism: the school architecture of William Edmund Kemp, 1880-1896
Citation
Orr, K, Empire, education and nationalism: the school architecture of William Edmund Kemp, 1880-1896, Fabrications, 20, (2) pp. 60-85. ISSN 1033-1867 (2011) [Refereed Article]
Copyright Statement
Copyright 2011 SAHANZ & Kirsten Orr. Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
DOI: doi:10.1080/10331867.2011.10539682
Abstract
Fundamental to an examination of the school architecture of William Edmund
Kemp (1831-1898) is an understanding of the man and the culture of the colonial
society that shaped him. During his lifetime there was a changing imperial
relationship between New South Wales and Britain, the introduction of self government
(1855) and a movement towards nationhood. As the nineteenth
century progressed, the theories of empire and nation building that dominated
the British worldview were modified by emerging ideas of colonial difference.
There was a general recognition that British people living in the Australian
environment had been changed and had developed their own distinctive
character. The growing independence of the colony accelerated the development
of education, culminating in the New South Wales Public Instruction Act of
1880. Kemp’s position as Architect for Public Schools was established at this
time – a position he occupied for sixteen years (1880-1896) during which he
designed hundreds of new schools for the colony.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | William Edmund Kemp, colonial society, nationalism |
Research Division: | Built Environment and Design |
Research Group: | Architecture |
Research Field: | Architectural history, theory and criticism |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Understanding past societies |
Objective Field: | Understanding Australia's past |
UTAS Author: | Orr, K (Professor Kirsten Orr) |
ID Code: | 107507 |
Year Published: | 2011 |
Deposited By: | Architecture |
Deposited On: | 2016-03-17 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-17 |
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