Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1956-1997 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1 parcel, 2 tubes (160 drawings).
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Edwin Henry Oribin was an architect born in Cairns in 1927. He became a registered architect in Queensland in 1953 and began a partnership with S.G. Barnes that year, active in residential and church design. After Barnes's death in 1959, Oribin continued his work in Cairns, closing down his office there in 1973. He continued to design significant residential and commercial buildings in Queensland. Many of his houses and buildings are heritage-listed, including his own Oribin Studio (1960). He died in May 2016, aged 89.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Martin Majer is a Brisbane-based registered architect. He completed his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Queensland in 1997 for which he wrote his thesis on architect Edwin Henry Oribin.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Architectural drawings, 1956-1997
Collection alternatively titled as: Edwin Henry Oribin Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Copies of drawings of buildings designed by, or in association with, E.H. Oribin.
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Accruals
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies.
Language of material
- English
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Uploaded finding aid
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Publication note
Material in this collection has been cited in:
Majer, Martin J. (1997) 'E.H. Oribin : the work of a far north Queensland architect', Thesis (B.Arch.), University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Architecture.
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Status
Migrated
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.