Sydney Technical College
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The Sydney Technical College, now known as the
Forebears
The Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was founded in 1833. In 1878, the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts formed the Working Men's College,[1] which eventually became the Sydney Technical College in 1882.[2] In 1900 Mary Ellen Roberts became a teacher of scientific dresscutting and making at the college.[3]
In 1911, the
In 1949, the New South Wales University of Technology was founded on its main site, as a separate institution.
In 1969, part of the college became the New South Wales Institute of Technology (NSWIT). This institute was reconstituted as the
The college continued to operate, eventually becoming part of the New South Wales Technical and Further Education (
Architectural students
Many prominent Australian architects studied architecture at Sydney Technical College before there was a university architecture course available in Sydney, but also attended architecture lectures in the Engineering Faculty at the University of Sydney.
- John Allen
- Sydney Ancher
- Arthur Anderson
- Henry Budden
- Walter Bunning
- Hedley Norman Carr
- J Burcham Clamp
- Bruce Dellit
- Jean Fombertaux
- Carlyle Greenwell
- Eric Heath
- Edward Hewlett Hogben
- Archer Hoskings
- Russell Jack
- Joseph Alexander Kethel
- Colin Madigan
- William Monks
- Glenn Murcutt
- Sir John Overall
- Lord Livingstone Ramsay
- Lindsay Gordon Scott
- John K. Shirley
- Emil Sodersten
- Florence Mary Taylor
- Thomas Tidswell
- Alfred Warden
- B J Waterhouse
- William Hardy Wilson
Gallery
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Sydney Technical College
References
- ^ Mark Dunn (2011). "Technical and Working Men's College". Dictionary of Sydney. Dictionary of Sydney Trust. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- ^ Catherine Freyne (2010). "Sydney Technical College". Dictionary of Sydney. Dictionary of Sydney Trust. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- ^ a b Teale, Ruth, "Mary Ellen Roberts (1866–1924)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 19 October 2023
- ^ "Sydney Technical College, New South Wales". Museums Victoria Collections. Retrieved 18 October 2022.