Architectural drawings, photographs and some associated records relating to the design and construction of the Torbreck residential complex at Highgate Hill, Brisbane. The Torbreck complex was constructed in 1958-1960, and was the first multistoreyed home unit development in Queensland. Rising prominently from the crest of Highgate Hill, Torbreck comprises 150 units spread across an eightstorey garden block and a fourteen-storey tower block, surrounded by landscaped gardens on a one and a half acre site. The complex was designed by Queensland architects A.H. Job and R.P. Froud, whose design ideas and innovative use of old and new materials were adaptations of the post-war International Style, in particular the North American model. At the time of its conception, Torbreck received support from the Queensland Government which considered high-density residential developments of this kind as one possible solution to Brisbane’s emerging suburban sprawl. After construction, the project’s developer, Torbeck Pty Ltd (later Torbreck Home Units Ltd), retained company title over the units. Unit owners became share holders in the company to the value of their unit’s purchase price, an arrangement that has persisted despite the introduction of the more popular strata title option in 1965. Torbreck remains substantially intact and continues to rank as one of Brisbane’s most prominent architectural landmarks.

Research materials, architectural drawings, photographs, manuscript drafts, and correspondence relating to Peter Newell's unpublished University of Queensland M. Arch. thesis The house in Queensland: from first settlement to 1985 (1988) and to four earlier published sketchbooks of Queensland and New South Wales architecture, and material relating to Robyn Boyd.

Accounts book, photocopies of architectural drawings; architectural photos; 35mm slides; black-and-white photographs; scrapbook with press clippings, lecture notes, plans and photographs; office diary; black and white transparencies of architectural plans in cardboard mounts.

Correspondence and documents relating to UQ School of Architecture curriculum, research on Karl Langer and architectural conservation.

Files and recordings relating to administration and publications of the Women in Architecture Association Queensland. Inlcudes: meeting minutes; constitution; correspondence; newsletters; newspaper cuttings; workshop, exhibition and convention documents; audio recordings of radio interviews with Fiona Gardener; recording of a conference workshopin 1983; biographical timelines of Women in Architecture Association (Qld.), Beatrice May Hutton and Fiona Gardiner.

Architectural drawings and photographs of residential, commercial, government, industrial, health, education, religious and tourism buildings, as well as various other building types, in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and other locations throughout Queensland. Some projects to which the drawings and photographs relate include the Butterfly House in the South Bank Parklands, Cathedral Square, St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, Admiralty Towers, Chinatown in Fortitude Valley and Park Avenue South Bank.

Copies of drawings of buildings designed by, or in association with, E.H. Oribin.

Architectural drawings, photographic negatives, slides and prints, architectural project files, personal papers and newspaper cuttings relating to John Simpson, primarily from his time with John Simpson Associates.

Architectural drawings of residential and commercial buildings in Brisbane and regional Queensland, mainly hospitals and schools.

The collection contains tracings, drawings, blueprints and linen plans for residential and commercial buildings in Brisbane and regional Queensland. Also includes work of Alexander I Trewern, younger brother of E P Trewern. Includes 38 photographs (20 x 26 cm or smaller), nine oversize photographs (most on paper mounted on board) of buildings by Trewern, including his own house; specifictions for St. Matthew's Anglican Church and the Upper Mt. Gravatt Methodist Church; three envolvopes from the American Face Brick Association with plates for houses; publications relating to houses by G. L. Sutcliffe; and journal cuttings.