FREE PUBLIC LECTURE

AUSTRALIA  AND CALIFORNIA 1850-1935

By Erica Esau - Visiting Fellow, School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, The Australian National University

Friday 19 March at 6pm (drinks from 5.30pm)
Sisalkraft Theatre
Ground Floor, Architecture Building
The University of Melbourne

California and Australia have always had strong similarities and significant connections, most of all in terms of their architecture.  Erika Esau’s lecture reports upon the research for her new book Images of the Pacific Rim:  Australia and California, 1850-1935. She is concerned with exchanges between California and Australia, especially in the early years of the twentieth century. But the special relationship dates from the time of the gold rushes, when the first frame house in California was built of wood from houses brought from Tasmania. Esau has discovered much else about the travels of Australian architects to California, and about the means by which Californian developments were disseminated in Australia.

Erika Esau works as a part-time Archivist at The Jonathan Club in Los Angeles, California; a Librarian at the Huntington Library Reader Services in San Marino, California; a part-time Librarian at the Rifkind Center of German Expressionist Studies in Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and is currently a Visiting Fellow School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, The Australian National University. Her other publications include German Expressionism at Lawrence University: The La Vera Pohl Collection, and The Blue Guide Australia (co-author with George Boeck), and E.O. Hoppé’s Australia (with Graham Howe).

This event is sponsored by the Faculty of Architecture and Heritage Victoria’s program to support Professional Development for heritage practitioners.
Professional Development points available through Heritage Victoria if required.
Refreshments sponsored by Australia ICOMOS.