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The following is a select list of primary sources (journals, newspapers and other contemporary publications) and selected secondary sources that have been indexed for the database of post-war Australian architecture.  

Journal TitleExtent of indexed material
Architect Victoria

Architecture & Arts

Architecture in Australia

Art & Design

Art in Australia

Australian Home Beautiful

Australian Home Journal

Australian House & Garden

Australian House & Garden Annual

Australian Home Journal

Australian Women's Weekly

Building Ideas

Chartered Builder

Clay Products Journal of Australia

Constructional Review

Cross Section

Decoration & Glass

Design World

Foundations

IES Lighting Review

Lines

Owner Builder

Plywood & Plywood News

Progress
[Journal of the State Savings Bank]

Smudges

Vogue Living  

Walkabout

Wood World


All issues from Apr 1969 (No 1) to Jun 1974; selected issues from 1977 to 1980

All issues from 1952 to 1967 [ie, the entire run of journal]

Selected issued from 1945 to 1949; all issues from 1950 to 1979

All issues for 1949 [only one edition was ever produced]

Selected issues from 1936 to 1939 [architectural section only]

Most issues from 1942 to 1971; selected issues from 1936-1941 and 1972-1977

Selected issues from 1967 to 1972

Most issues from 1948 to 1971; selected issues from 1972

All issues from 1955 to 1970 

All issues from 1954 to 1957

Most issues from 1945 to 1976 (including "House of the Week" column from 1966)

Most issues from Oct 1959 (No 1) to Dec 1978

Most issues from Mar 1973 (No 5) to Spring 1981

All issues from 1953 to 1956, and 1959

All issues from 1969 to 1972 and Nov 1977 to Nov 1979

All issues from 1952 (No 1) to 1955, and 1959 to 1961

Selected issues from 1941 to 1947

All issues from 1983 (Vol 1, No 1) to 1985

Most issues from 1960 to 1962; selected issues from 1965 and 1966

Selected issues from 1949, 1954 to 1956, and 1962 to 1970

Issues for 1939, 1942 and 1949

All issues from Sep 1981 (No 1) to Aug 1986 (No 20)

All issues from Mar 1959 (Vol 1, No 1)  to Jul 1967

All issues from 1958 to 1959, and 1964 to 1975 [architectural references only]

All issues from Apr 1946 to Mar 1952 [final issue]

Selected issues from 1968 to 1974; also one issue from 1980

Most issues from 1966 to 1969 [architectural references only]

Most issues from Aug 1967 (Vol 1, No 1) to 1976
Newspaper titleExtent of indexed material
The Age




The Argus

The Herald

Small Homes Service column: most issues from Jul 1947 to Aug 1979
House of the Week column:  all issues from Oct 1971 to Aug 1979
House & Home column: all issues from Sep 1967 to Dec 1971
Norman Day's review column: all issues from Apr 1977 to Dec 1981

Weekly property column: selected issues from 1945-47, all issues from 1953-1957

Harry Perrott's property column: all issues from 1953 to April 1966
Robert Clarke's architectural column: all issues from April 1966 to Dec 1970

Book titleExtent of indexed material
Architecture in Western Australia

Australia and New Zealand Solar Home Book
(1978)

Best Australian Houses
(1961)

Copper for Architecture in Australia & New Zealand

Design for Living in Australia
(1978)

Furnishing Australian Homes
(c.1956)

Guide to Victorian Architecture
(1956)

444 Sydney Buildings
(1971)

Homebuilder's Handbook
(1968)

Houses of Australia
(1948)

Housing in South Australia
(1970)

International Interiors and Design
(1959)

Living and Partly Living
(1971)

Living in the Environment
(1976)

Modern Homes in Timber
(1938)

Modern Houses Melbourne
(1976)

The New Architecture
(1963)

The New Australian Home
(1954)

New Ideas for Kitchens
(c.1966)

New Ideas for Homemaker Plans
(c.1971)

Pre-School Centres in Australia
(1945)

The Sun Post-War Homes
(1945)

Towards an Australian Architecture
(1968)

200 Home Plan Ideas (c.1960)

We are what we stand on
(1980)

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Monographs on architectsExtent of indexed material
The Life Work of Guilford Bell, architect (1999)

Kevin Borland: Architecture from the Heart (2006)

The Architecture of Neil Clerehan (2005)

Ernest Fooks: Architect (2001)

Wayne Gillespie, Architect (2003)

Kurt Popper: From Vienna to Melbourne (2002)
List of projects, 1947 to 1992 (pp 294-298)

List of projects, 1950 to 1992 (pp 302-310)

List of projects, 1947 to 1995 (pp 156-166)  

List of projects, 1941 to 1984 (pp 45-57)

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List of projects, 1940 to 1981 (pp 31-39)

Archival sourcesExtent of indexed material
Gromboyd Papers, State Library of Victoria

John & Phyllis Murphy Drawing Collection, SLV

Architectural Atelier records, University of Melbourne

Graduation records, University of Melbourne

Architects' Registration Board of Victoria
List of CHI project houses supervised by Robin Boyd, 1955 to 1957

List of projects for which drawings are held, 1949 to 1970

Student rolls, 1931 to 1950

Graduates from School of Architecture/Faculty of ABP, 1931 to 1971

Annual registration roll, 1940 to 1969