Between Duty and Design: The Architect-Soldier Sir J. J. Talbot Hobbs

Taylor, John (John Joseph),

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WEST AUSTRALIANA ARCHITECTURE AUSTRALIAN MILITARY

Signed by Author. First Edition. Pristine copy.

268 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), facsimiles (some colour), plans (some colour) ; 28 cm  Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index #120523

The architectural work of Joseph John Talbot Hobbs is impossible to overlook in Perth and Western Australia. It dominates public spaces as well as domestic and business streetscapes. A strong sense of duty determined that the diminutive fifty-year-old architect-soldier J.J. Talbot Hobbs would in 1914 voyage to the First World War, where he survived the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. Hobbs’ powerful organisational skills positioned him as Australia’s highest ranking soldier in Europe after the Great War. Organiser of Australian war memorials in France and Belgium, his stellar designs both there and throughout Western Australia are now largely forgotten. Who was J.J. Talbot Hobbs that he was considered to be of such importance at the time of his death that a memorial was built in one of the most prominent places in the state’s capital city of Perth? Between Duty and Design is a meticulous biography of the man: soldier and architect, highlighting his place as a citizen of national importance.

Hobbs, Talbot J. J. (Joseph John) Sir, 1864-1938.  |  Architects — Western Australia — Biography.  |  Soldiers — Western Australia — Biography.  |  World War, 1914-1918 — Participation, Australian — Biography.  |  Western Australia — Biography.  |  Australian

Additional Information

Author Taylor, John (John Joseph),
Number of pages268
PublisherUWA Publishing, Western Australia
Year Published2014
Binding Type

Softcover

Book Condition

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