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Hudson & Wardrop

Hudson and Wardrop was formed by Phillip Burgoyne Hudson and James Hastie Wardrop in 1919. Philip Hudson was born in Auckland; New Zealand on the 6th of February in 1887and died in 1952 at the age of 64. James Wardrop was born in 1891 and died on the 25th of July in 1975 at the age of 84. Both Architects were veterans who served in the war and moved on to study under Charles D’Ebro. The Australian established Architects are well known for their designs of Chapels, universities, colleges, factories, hotels, and public monuments in Melbourne. The Shrine of Remembrance being the most prominent out of the few. They were also responsible for the compiling of The National War Memorial of Victoria: the first brochure on the first permeated design.

Personal Life

Phillip Burgoyne Hudson

Phillip Burgoyne Hudson was the son of Charles Hudson, Railway Commissioner of Victoria. As a child he attended Wellington College in New Zealand and moved to The Friends College High School to continue his education in his early teens. In 1903 Hudson moved to Melbourne and attended Melbourne University to pursue a career in Architecture. In 1904 Hudson was articled to Anketell Henderson in 1904 and began a practice with D’Ebro over the period of 1904-09. Soon after he established a practice of his own in 1909. Hudson also began teaching Architectural drafting with Harold Desbrowe annear and Haddon at the Working Mens College, now known as RMIT University. A year later, he met Ethel Elise Vincent and was married on the 14th of December in 1910. Ethel gave birth to one son and two daughters and lived in their home in Garden Vale which was designed by Hudson himself in 1914.

James Hastie Wardrop

Born in 1891 James Hastie Wardrop was Enlisted in A.I.F. in October 1915, and served in Europe before traveling to England to study briefly in 1919.

Notable Projects

Philip Hudson

1914 * Own house at Garden Vale

    * Villa at Garden Vale.

1915 * Geelong grammar school chapel in association with Gerard Wight

    * Villa in Lansell Road, Toorak.    

1924 * National War memorial - Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne in association with James Wardrop.

1933 - Extension to factory Spencer Street, Melbourne.

     - Conversion of existing building, corner of Moore & Kavanagh streets.
     - 2-storey home in Toorak

1934 - Doctors quarters, Austin Hospital.

     - South wing to Geelong College.
     - House in Moorakyne Avenue, Malvern.

1936 - Melbourne University Union Building.

     - Electrolux factory, Alexandra Avenue, South Yarra [demolished].

1937 - Boarding house at Geelong College.

1938 - Conversion of warehouse on corner of Degraves street & Flinders Lane.

1939 - Commercial Union building 411-3 Collins Street.

     - Mackie House, Geelong College

James Wardrop

1924 - National War Memorial - Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne in association with Philip Hudson.

    - Own two-storey house in 24 Alston Grove, East St. Kilda

1934 - Flats in Broadway (Malvern) 1937 - Alkira house, Queen Street, City.

1938 - Trumold Tyre Workshop (Now 'Mossquito' Restaurant), Queens Parade, Clifton Hill.

    - United Kingdom Hotel (now McDonalds), Queens Parade, Clifton hill.

1939 - Flats 'Shirley Court' 135 Mooltan Street Travancore, Flemington.

    - 2 storey house, Broadford. 

Awards & Achievements

In 1907 Hudson won a RIVA Silver Medal for the art Gallery competition, and in 1915 went on to win first prize in the competition to design the Geelong Grammar School’s chapel in association with Gerard Wight. He received a second RIVA silver medal in 1920 and was nominated as the president of RIVA from 1924 to 1926. In 1924 he won the most notable prize for the international competition for National War memorial - Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne in association with James Wardrop.

In 1911 Wardrop won the RIVA silver medal for his design for the branch bank & Bronze for measured drawings. Two years later he was an elected associate of RIVA.

The Firm Hudson & Wardrop

After forming an alliance in 1919, Hudson and Wardrop entered the competition for the national War Memorial in 1923 and won first prize. The Shrine is known to be Melbourne’s most important Public Monument.

National War Memorial - Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne

The design for the shrine was based on the Pantheon in Athens and the tomb of Mausolus, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and symbolizes both the democratic tradition for which the soldiers died and the eternity of their afterlife. In 1929 Hudson and Wardrop partnered with Architect and Engineer Kingsley Ussher particularly to check calculations for the ‘eye of light’ at the shrine. In 1946 Robert F. Howden joined the firm as junior partner. A year later Stevenson joined to form Hudson Stevenson Partners. The sudden death of Hudson and the illness of Stevenson lead Howden to run the practice. Hugh McLean joined, renaming the firm Hudson Stevenson Howden & McLean. Howden became senior partner followed by the death of Stevenson and the firm became both Architects and engineers. It was renamed Hawdon and McLean and now continues as Howden & Wardrop Pvt Ltd, Architects & Engineers at 24 Albert Road South Melbourne.

References

• ‘A temple, a tomb,’ The Herald, 1 March 1901.
• Bird, Matthew, George Alfred Kemter. A Chronological Biography, 2001.
• Catrice, Daniel, Cinemas in Melbourne. 1896-1942, Vol III, Monash University, Clayton, August 1991, p 214& passim.
• Cooper, J B, The History of St Kilda from its Settlement to a City and After. 1840 to 1930, The Printers Pty Ltd, Melbourne 1931, pp 239, 265-267.
• Edquist, Harriet, Pioneers of Modernism. The Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia, The Miegunyah Press, Carlton 2008, pp 31, 40, 50, 51, 145, 206 & 207.
• Goad, Philip, Melbourne Architecture, The Watermark Press, Sydney 1999, pp 103, 111, 124, 125, 258 & 268.
• Home & Garden Beautiful, 1 April 1915, with Philip Hudson’s house depicted on the cover.
• Johnson, Peter (who indicated further material).
• Lewis, Miles, [Architects’ index] Architectural Survey. Final Report, Department of Architecture and Building, University ofMelbourne, Parkville, November 1977, pp 50 & 102.
• Nigel Lewis and Associates, St Kilda Conservation Study. Area One. Final Report, South Yarra, September 1982, p 79.
• Andrew Benjamin, ‘A Secular Temenos’, Architecture Australia, 92, 5 (2003):51, 54.
• Joy Damousi, ‘Private Loss, Public Mourning: motherhood, memory and grief in Australia during the interwar years’, Women’s History Review, 8, 2 (1999): 365-366.
• Serguisz Michalski, Public Monuments: art in political bondage 1870-1997, London: Reaktion Books, 1998, p 172.
• These assessments were recorded by the Sydney Morning Herald, 20 October, 1928, 26 March, 1928; and are cited by Donald Richardson on the website article ‘Bertram Mackennal’s War Sculptures in Australia’, March, 2000,
• http://www.skp.com.au/memorials/pages/20069.htm (accessed 12 November, 2005).
• Michalski, Public Monuments, p 176.
• Michalski, Public Monuments, pp 177-178.
• ‘Holocaust memorial fails to convey suffering, says Jewish Leader’, The Guardian (UK), 10 May, 2005.
• Wayne Charney, ‘Et in Arcadia Ego: The Place of Memorial in Contemporary America’, Reflections: The Journal of the School of Architecture, University of
• Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 6 (1989): 86-95.
• Jonathan Glancey, ‘Southern Comfort’, The Guardian [UK], December 20, 2004.
• Kenneth Inglis, Sacred places: war memorials in the Australian landscape, Carlton [Vic]: Miegunyah Press, 1998, pp 280-282.
• Inglis, Sacred places, pp 247, 339, 464.
• Inglis, Sacred places, p 316.
• Keith Murdoch quoted by Geoffrey Serle, John Monash: A Biography, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1982, p 472.
• Inglis, Sacred places, p 317.
• Inglis, Sacred places, pp 321-323.
• Inglis, Sacred places, pp 317, 318; Serle, John Monash, p 473.
• Victorian Parliamentary Hansard, Parliament of Victoria, Preamble, ‘Shrine of Remembrance (Amendment) Bill’, Second Reading, 22 April, 1999.
• Andrew Benjamin, ‘A Secular Temenos’, p. 50.
• Victorian Parliamentary Hansard, Parliament of Victoria ‘Shrine of Remembrance (Amendment) Bill’, Second Reading, 25 May 1999, p 721.
• Adrian Forty, The Art of Forgetting, Oxford: Berg, 1999, p 5.
• Cited by Joy Damousi, ‘Private Loss, Public Mourning’, p 372.
• Cited by Joy Damousi, ‘Private Loss, Public Mourning’, p 372.
• Anonymous correspondent for the Herald Sun, 12 November, 2003, p 13.
• ‘Anzac Day has become one of our most enduring commemorative public holidays’, Independent Anzac Network Database/TAT Tourism Turkey

[online]: http://www.anzacday.biz/anzac_day/archive/news.asp?index=399 (accessed 12 November, 2005).

• Victorian Parliamentary Hansard, Parliament of Victoria ‘Shrine of Remembrance (Amendment) Bill’, Second Reading, 25 May 1999, p 722-723.
• Victorian Parliamentary Hansard, Parliament of Victoria ‘Shrine of
• Remembrance (Amendment) Bill’, Second Reading, 25 May 1999, pp 723.
• Norman Day, ‘Shrine of Remembrance’, The Age, October 20, 2003.
• Benjamin, ‘A Secular Temenos’, p 54.
• Charles, Bean, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18, Sydney:
• Angus & Robertson, 1921-1942.
• Benjamin, ‘A Secular Temenos’, p 54.
• Norman Day, ‘Shrine of Remembrance’, The Age, October 20, 2003.

External Links

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_Halicarnassus