Queensland Architects 1823−1895: A Biographical Dictionary

Title: Queensland Architects 1823−1895: A Biographical Dictionary
Authors: Adjunct Professor Donald Watson and Judith McKay
Publisher: Uro (2025)

Queensland Architects 1823–1895: A Biographical Dictionary is a major revision of Donald Watson and Judith McKay’s earlier biographical dictionary published in 1994. It incorporates new material and has a wider range of entries than its predecessor, not only for architects but also for related practitioners. While the book is about Queensland architects, these practitioners also worked elsewhere in Australia, as well as much further afield, before or later, making the book useful to biographical researchers of Australian architecture outside Queensland’s borders.

The authors have undertaken years of research to identify hundreds of architects and the like who practised in what is now Queensland from the beginning of European settlement until the economic downturn of the late nineteenth century, highlighting their widespread presence in a sparsely settled colony and the challenges they faced. Their lives and many of their buildings are recorded in succinct entries illustrated with mostly contemporary images. This book transforms our understanding of the Queensland built environment and those who helped to shape it over many years.