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Elizabeth Ellis: Australian Review of Books | |
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The wait has been worthwhile. It is a handsome volume, of a generous quarto size with satisfyingly wide margins and an uncluttered design of simple elegance befitting its subject. Colour plates are gathered at the beginning in a well-chosen and reproduced selection; black and white plates are interspersed throughout the text. | ||
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Geraldine O'Brien: The Sydney Morning Herald | |
| The story of Australian domestic architecture up to 1842, it was written by someone uniquely qualified for the task, academically and in practice. An architecture graduate with an honours degree in Fine Arts and a doctorate from the history department at the ANU’s Research School of Social Science, Broadbent has a long record in curatorship of some of Sydney’s finest historic houses, he lives at Mulgoa in an 1810 cottage, and knows and is respected throughout the heritage professions. | ||
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Michael Hall: Country Life magazine, 26 February 1998, U. K. | |
| Dr Broadbent’s magisterial and magnificent book is an architectural history of the houses of New South Wales in its first half century, before the economical crash of 1842 brought building to a temporary halt. It is an extraordinary story, absorbingly told. Dr Broadbent draws on a profound knowledge of the rich documentary evidence, from the colonists’ letters home to the first topographical drawings and photographs. | ||
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