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- Title
A House of Sticks: A History of Queenslander Houses in Maryborough.
- Authors
Watson, Donald
- Abstract
Some years ago, when South-East Queensland was threatened with being overrun with Tuscan villas, the Brisbane architect John Simpson proposed that revenge should be taken on Italy by exporting timber and tin shacks in large numbers to Tuscany. The Queenslanders would be going home – albeit as colonial cousins – taking with them their experience of the sub-tropics. Without their verandahs but with their pediments intact, the form and planning, fenestration and detailing can be interpreted as Palladian, translated into timber, the material originally available in abundance for building construction. ‘High-set’, the local term for South-East Queensland's raised houses, denotes a feature that is very much the traditional Italian piano nobile [‘noble floor’]: the principal living areas on a first floor with a rusticated façade of battens infilling between stumps and shaped on the principal elevation as a superfluous arcade to a non-existent basement storey. Queensland houses were very Italianate.
- Subjects
QUEENSLAND; SIMPSON, John; TIMBER; PALLADIAN architecture; CONSTRUCTION; INTERNATIONAL trade
- Publication
Queensland Review, 2012, Vol 19, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
1321-8166
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/qre.2012.6