Collection UQFL278 - Hayes and Scott Records

Identity area

Reference code

UQFL278

Title

Hayes and Scott Records

Date(s)

  • 1946-1984 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

1 box, 2 albums, 23 oversize folders (421 architectural drawings, 187 architectural prints, 1 blueprint, 1 cover sheet)

Context area

Name of creator

(1946-1984)

Administrative history

Hayes and Scott, an architecture firm, was founded by Edwin James Hayes (1918-1997) and Campbell Royston Scott (1921-2007) in Brisbane in 1946. The architects met in 1938 when Scott joined the office of Chambers and Ford, where Hayes was an articled pupil. Initially they traded as E.J. Hayes and C.R. Scott. They rapidly made their mark with early commissions and houses that attracted awards and publicity. They tended to divide up projects geographically, with Scott generally responsible for projects in Brisbane, Toowoomba and wider Queensland, while Hayes oversaw projects on the Gold Coast. They also ventured into furniture design, at one point working with the Danish Furniture Company of Brisbane to create bespoke furniture for their residential projects. In the late 1950s, in an effort to rid themselves of being stereotyped as "the Brisbane House Designers", they actively sought non-residential commissions, such as large scale university commissions.

Notable residential projects include the Griffin House at St Lucia and Jacobi House at Indooroopilly, Brisbane, as well as the Harvey Graham Beach House in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast. Commercial projects include the Vogue Theatrette, Henry Beirne Douglas Memorial Chapel at the St Columbans Christian Brothers College, Albion and the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Brisbane.

Architects employed by Hayes and Scott include George Henderson (who was briefly made partner in the 1960s), Allan Kirkwood, Ian D. Charlton, John Dalton, Jon Voller, Malcolm R. Cummings and Robin Gibson.

Hayes and Scott was succeeded by Hayes, Scott and Henderson from 1965 to 1967, then the firm returned to operating as Hayes and Scott until 1984, when Edwin Hayes and Campbell Scott retired from practice.

Archival history

All digital material relating to Hayes and Scott acquired via Andrew Wilson was relocated to UQFL630 Andrew Wilson Papers in 2019.
Material relating to 4 Crane Street Newmarket was relocated to UQFL631 Matt and Anna Layshon Papers in 2019.
Tapes of interviews were relocated to F3831 Interviews in 2019.
Collection previously titled as: Records, 1948-1982
Collection alternatively titled as: Hayes and Scott Collection.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Acquired from the firm.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Architectural drawings, mostly residential, with some commercial; magazine clippings; 35mm slides; photographs.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Unrestricted access.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright applies. Material may be copied for the research and study purposes and for publication, at the discretion of the Fryer Librarian.

Language of material

  • English

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Finding aids

Allied materials area

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Existence and location of copies

Related units of description

Related material can be found in the Fryer Library in UQFL569 Interviews with Campbell Scott and Peter Newell; and F3831 Interviews with Eddie Hayes, Louis Hailey, Don Winsen, Stuart McIntosh, James Birrell and Judith McKay.

Publication note

Material from this collection is cited in:
Reilly, Angela (2012). Houses by Hayes and Scott: 1946-1962. BArch. Thesis, School of Architecture, The University of Queensland.
Macarthur, John, Van Der Plaat, Deborah, Gosseye, Janina & Wilson, Andrew (eds.) (2015). Hot Modernism : Queensland Architecture 1945-1975. Artifice Books on Architecture, London.
Margalit, Harry (2019). Australia : modern architectures in history. Reaktion Books.
Wilson, Andrew (2005). Hayes & Scott: post-war houses. St Lucia, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Wilson, Andrew Charles (2015). The houses of Hayes and Scott (1946-1984). PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, The University of Queensland.

Notes area

Alternative identifier(s)

Alma MMS ID

991003953899703131

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Status

Revised

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 03-Feb-2025.
Revised, Amanda Main, 30-Oct-2019.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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