2.1 Bark

• Aboriginal use of bark
  V-huts
  The European bark tradition
  Emergence of the bark roof
  The technology of bark
  The canonical bark roof
  Sources and analogies
  Roof variations
  The spread of bark building
  Later usage

2.2 Logs

• Sources of log construction
  Palisades
  Vertical log panel construction
  Horizontal log panel construction
  Lock-ups
  Early Australian log buildings
  The goldfields
  Other log buildings

2.3 Splitting Timber

• Tools and species
  The splitting process
  Uses

2.4 Slabs

• Appearance and distribution
  Vertical slabs
  Weatherproofing
  Plastered slabs
  Sawn slabs
  Horizontal slabs
  Horizontal flitches

2.5 Shingles

• Origins of shingles
  Manufacture
  Types and timbers
  Shingling practice
  Palings
  The shingle revival
  Shingles: check

2.6 Thatch

• Thatching materials
  Grass houses
  Thatched roofs
  Thatched barns
  Rush or brush walling
  Cane

3.1 Sods or Turves

• Prehistory
  New Zealand
  Australian origins
  South Australia & Victoria
  Later New South Wales
  Construction technique
  Fences
  Roofs

3.2 Adobe or Clay Lump

• Distribution
  The Orient
  The Spanish tradition
  H L Ellsworth
  Clay lump
  English variants
  Australian examples
  German connections
  Egyptian brick
  The twentieth century
  The adobe revival

3.3 Cob

• Context
  British practice
  New Zealand
  Early Australian examples
  Rose Hill Villa & Bear's Castle
  The later nineteenth century

3.4 Origins of Pise de Terre

• Carthage to Rome
  France
  François Cointeraux
  Britain
  Dissemination
  The twentieth century

3.5 Pise in Australia

• Van Diemens Land
  New South Wales
  Western Australia
  South Australia
  Victoria
  Central Australia
  The Riverina
  Later New South Wales
  Queensland
  The twentieth century
  The pisé revival

3.6 Earth and Composite Floors

• Earth floors
  Puddled floors
  Composite floors
  Plaster and concrete floors

3.7 Stones

• Early history
  Local freestones
  Local limestones
  Basalt & granite
  Local slate
  Local marble
  Imported flagging and slate
  Imported stone
  The intercolonial trade

4.1 Wattle and Daub

• Wattling
  Origins of wattle and daub
  Wattle and daub in Australia
  Prefabrication

4.2 Pole and Pug

European and American precedents
Lath and pug
The mining connection
Dissemination

4.3 Lehmwickel

• Etymology
  Origins
  Eastern Europe
  North America
  Queensland
  South Australia
  Western Victoria
  Postscript

4.4 Palisade and Pug

• Palisading
  Pugging
  Dissemination
  The German connection
  The Lincolnshire connection

4.5 The Transformation of the Tent

• Tents
  The framed tent
  Transitional examples
  The fever tent

4.6 Huts in General

• The itinerant builder
  Homestead forms
  Chimneys
  Diggers and selectors
  The bough shed
  Wheat bags & iron

5.1 The Timber Trade

• Early New South Wales
  The south-east
  Queensland
  Native pine
  Western Australia
  Classification
  Intercolonial trade
  Foreign imports
  Markings

5.2 Timber Processing

• Tools
  Pit sawing
  Sawmills
  Woodworking machinery
  Seasoning
  Preservative treatments
  Antproofing
  Markings

5.3 Carpentry

• The British tradition
  The German tradition
  Base wall plates
  Lightweight construction
  Cladding
  Blocked boarding
  Flooring
  Training

5.4 Roof Framing

• Eaves joist construction
  The dragon beam
  The bow and string beam
  Sarking
  The sawtooth roof
  Barrups
  The steel square

5.5 Timber Gutters

• Gutter types
  Monoligneous gutters
  Built-up eaves gutters
  Box gutters
  Trunks and downpipes
  The Philadelphia gutter

5.6 The Stud Frame

• Traditional and stud framing
  The balloon frame
  Competing American types
  Definitions
  The stud frame in Europe
  Robert Scott Burn
  Transitional examples in Canada & New Zealand
  Australia
  Platform framing
  Skew nailing
  Origins

5.7 The Exposed Frame

• The picturesque frame
  Ecclesiology
  Queensland
  The exposed frame vernacular
  The later picturesque

5.8 Naturalism and Nationalism

• The Van Diemonian picturesque
  Stained finishes
  Internal linings
  Parquetry
  The reaction

5.9 Industrial Framing and the Sawtooth Roof

5.10 Joinery

• The context
  Sash windows
  Casement windows
  Transom lights
  Room dividers
  The Austral window
  H D Annear
  Sash balances
  Modernist joinery
  Built-in furniture

5.11 Building Boards

• Plywood
  Building boards
  Wood fibre boards in Australia
  Masonite
  Cane boards
  Solomit

5.12 Timber Engineering & Lamination

• Mechanically laminated arches
  The Belfast truss
  Specialised girders and systems
  Glue lamination
  The Burge Brothers building
  Developments in lamination
  The hyperbolic parabaloid

6.1 Brick Making

• Pioneering
  Preparation
  Hand-moulding
  Extrusion
  Pressing
  Brick sizes

6.2 Brick Burning

• Hacking
  Clamps
  Simple kilns
  Continuous kilns
  Downdraught kilns
  Round kilns
  Rectangular kilns
  The Hoffman kiln
  The Centennial kiln
  The tunnel kiln

6.3 The Cavity Wall

• Recent studies
  Hollow walls
  Early cavity walls
  Wall ties
  Acceptance of the cavity wall
  The cavity wall overseas
  Proto-cavity walls in Australia
  R A Love and the Bendigo connection
  The Jennings brick in Australia
  The cavity in Australia
  Hoop iron and wire ties

6.4 Brick Veneer

• Proto-veneer
  Canada
  United States
  New Zealand
  Australia
  Acceptance of brick veneer

6.5 Special Bricks

• Early imports
  Fire bricks
  Paving bricks
  Hollow bricks
  Fixing bricks
  Coloured bricks
  Glazed bricks
  Shaped bricks
  Textured bricks

6.6 Roofing Tiles

• Traditional tile types
  Gilardoni tiles
  Chabat's classification
  The French tile in Australia
  Other patterns in Australia

6.7 The Marseilles Tile

• The Marseilles canon
  The imported Marseilles tile
  The Marseilles manufacturers
  Local manufacturers
  The Marseilles tile elsewhere
  The Australian picture

6.8 Tiles & Terra Cotta

• Paving tiles
  Moulded terra cotta
  Tessellated tiles
  Wall tiles
  Mosaic
  Tile hanging
  Decorative terra cotta
  Ridging & gryphons
  Glazed terra cotta cladding

6.9 Terra Cotta Block & Lumber

• Hollow blocks
  Extruded blocks
  American systems
  Terra cotta lumber
  Australian manufacture
  Local use of terra cotta lumber
  Terra cotta buildings
  Face blocks in the USA
  Natco
  Wunderlich structural blocks

7.01 Early Lime and Cement

• Shell lime and imports
  Rock lime
  Lime burning
  Hydraulic lime and cement
  Mortar and grout
  Stucco

7.02 Concrete

• Flooring and paving
  Artificial stone
  Mass concrete
  Béton coignet
  Foundations and engineering works
  New Zealand
  Patents and inventions
  Mixers
  J T Knox
  Lightweight concrete

7.03 Fireproof Construction

• Brick vaulted construction
  French systems
  Fox & Barrett's system
  Fairbairn's system
  Wilkinson's system
  Dennett's system
  John Sulman

7.04 Portland Cement

• Artificial cements
  Victoria Hydraulic Freestone
  Cement castings
  Imported cement
  Local manufacture
  Technical developments

7.05 Reinforced Concrete

• Proto-reinforced concrete in Australasia
  Raft construction
  The Monier system
  Expanded metal
  The Kahn bar and the Truscon company
  Reinforcement systems
  E G Stone & the Considère system
  W C Torode
  H R Crawford
  Flat plate construction
  Reinforced concrete houses

7.06 Blocks

• Concrete blocks
  New Zealand
  Australian block manufacture
  The Midget Giant & the Emu
  Sand-lime bricks
  Later concrete blocks
  Mechanisation
  Breeze blocks
  Tiles & slabs

7.07 Knitlock

• Invention of Knitlock
  The Tex-Tile connection
  Adoption of Knitlock
  The diagonal tile

7.08 Concrete Advances: Forms & Systems

• Formwork systems
  Camerated concrete
  Cavity walling
  L M Perrott
  Concrete veneer
  Concrete roof tiles
  W H Lascelles
  Precasting
  Tilt slabs & panels
  Lift slab
  Prestressing

7.09 Peripheral Products: Additives & Finishes

• Cements and additives
  Terrazzo
  Hardened pavings
  Benedict Stone
  Rendered finishes
  Gunite
  Metal lathing

7.10 Asbestos Cement

• Asbestos
  Asbestos cement
  Importation
  Local manufacture
  New products
  Post-war developments

8.1 Iron

• Local iron
  Imported components
  Local foundries
  Structural developments

8.2 Galvanized Iron

• Origins of galvanizing
  Commercial galvanizing
  Galvanized iron in Australia
  Pipes and gutters
  Galvanized roof decking
  Lysaghts in Australia
  Other processes

8.3 Morewood & Rogers

• Edmund Morewood
  Morewood & Rogers tiles
  The Melbourne agency
  Other metal tiles
  Morewood's corrugated iron
  Morewood & Co
  Gospel Oak

8.4 Corrugated Iron

• Development of corrugated iron
  Corrugated iron in Australia
  Water tanks
  Verandah roofs
  Curving and structural use
  Corrugated tiles
  Early brands
  Later nineteenth century brands
  Lysaghts
  The Australian market
  Variant types
  Lysaghts' Australian operation
  Other twentieth century types
  Protected metal

8.5 Structural Corrugation

• Corrugated iron vaulting
  Development of Traegerwellblech
  Traegerwellblech in Australia
  Surviving Traegerwellblech
  Buckled plates

8.6 Nails & Ironmongery

• The wrought nail
  Machine-made nails
  Cut brads
  The Ewbank nail
  The wire nail
  Roofing nails & screws
  Local nail manufacture
  Screws
  Anchorage
  Ironmongery
  Locks
  Safes

8.7 Ornamental Cast Iron

• Imported castings
  Early Australian castings
  Towards a Victorian style
  Regional variations
  The Angus McLean column

8.8 Pressed Metal

• Stamped work
  Architectural sheet metal
  Wunderlich
  Metallic shingles
  Metal ceilings
  M etal cladding
  Metal roofing
  Porcelain enamel
  Shanties

8.9 Steel & Welding

• The introduction of steel
  Local production
  Spans and frames
  Welding
  Stainless steel

8.10 Metal Windows & Curtain Walls

• Steel windows & the fenestra joint
  Reversible windows
  Origins of the curtain wall
  Industrial glazing and skylights
  The curtain wall æsthetic
  Australian examples
  The curtain-walled skyscraper
  Technical problems

8.11 Non-ferrous metals

• Sources & uses
  Alloys
  The zinc market
  Zinc sheeting
  Zinc tiles
  Other zinc products
  Tin
  Local production
  Aluminium

9.1 Heating

• Chimneys
  Fireplaces
  The colonial oven
  Cooking stoves
  Ranges
  Incinerators
  Kerosene
  Heating systems

9.2 Ventilation

• Air bricks
  Arnott's ventilator
  The Tobin tube
  Educt vents
  Ceiling vents
  Extraction ducts
  Induct ventilators
  Roof vents
  Robert Boyle and the 'air pump'
  Later types
  Ventilating ridges

9.3 Cooling & Mechanical Ventilation

• Passive evaporative cooling
  The punkah
  The tunnel
  Parliament House, Melbourne
  Forced ventilation & cooling
  Refrigeration
  Air conditioning
  The rotary clothes hoist

9.4 Water Supply & Plumbing

• Wells & bores
  Pumps
  Rams
  Rainwater collection & disposal
  Ships' tanks
  Tank manufacturers
  Wooden pipes
  Lead pipes
  Paper pipes
  Plumbing fittings
  Laundries
  Plumbing cores

9.5 Sanitation

• The pit closet
  The water closet
  The cesspit
  Nightcarts
  Sewers and drains
  Pneumatic systems
  Cistern and pan design

9.6 Earth Closets

• Deodorising
  Moule's closet
  Moule's closet in Australia
  Variant types
  The afterglow

9.7 The Septic Tank

• Prehistory
  Bacteriolytic systems
  The true septic tank
  Design and manufacture
  The aerator
  The non-septic tank

9.8 Gas

• Pioneers
  Portable gas plants
  Alternative fuels
  Gaslight
  Gas cookers and appliances
  Acetylene
  Air gas
  Liquid fuel

9.9 Mechanical

• Bells
  Tubes & cash systems
  Early lifts
  Passenger lifts
  The hydraulic power system
  Electric lifts & escalators

9.10 Electricity

• Lightning conduction
  Lightning conductors in Australia
  Later forms
  Pioneering in electricity
  Appliances
  Intercom phones

10.1a Climatic Devices

• The detached kitchen
  The underground room
  Screens & walls
  Insulating roofs

10.1b The Verandah Overseas

• Sources and terms
  The United States
  Canada
  Ceylon
  England
  The surrounding verandah
  The stoop
  The two storey verandah
  New Zealand

10. 2 The Verandah in Australia

• Grose's verandah
  Early colonial examples
  The second phase
  The awning verandah
  The verandah revival
  Conclusion

10.3 The Bungalow

• Indian prototypes
  Definitions
  Australian examples
  Indian connections
  Looser relationships
  The generic bungalow

10.4 The Piazza

• Origins of the term
  Piazzas and verandahs
  American usage
  The Australian revival

10.5 Stumps, Ants and High-Set Houses

• Stumps overseas
  Stumps in Australia
  Sheathed stumps
  The steddle
  The rick stand and cognate forms
  The ant cap
  The high-set house
  Masonry and concrete stumps

10.6 Damp Proofing

• Asphalt and coal tar
  Asphalt paving
  Solid barrier damp-proof courses
  Asphalt and composition damp courses

10.7 Insulation & Roofing Felts

• Organic materials
  Mineral products
  Acoustic products
  Tarred felt
  Felt roofing
  Asbestos products
  Malthoid
  Proprietary materials
  Felt shingles

10.8 The Flat Roof

• The Underwood house
  Dalwood
  The South African connection
  The Indian connection
  English sources
  Tar and compound surfaces
  Modern flat roofs

10.9 Cyclone Design

• Cyclones and storm battens
  The Knuckey Street church
  Hook bolts & ties
  Queensland practice
  Post-Tracey

10.10 Cool Rooms

• Underground chambers
  Dairies
  Underground dairies
  Other underground rooms

10.11 Blinds & Louvres

• Fabric blinds
  Mesh blinds and screens
  Venetian blinds
  Luffer boards and louvres
  Australian louvres
  Sunbreakers

11.1 Plaster & Plasterboard

• Plastering practice
  Lathing
  Hard plaster & scagliola
  Modelling
  Gypsum plaster
  Proto-fibrous plaster
  Fibrous plaster
  Plasterboard
  Structural plaster

11.2 Paper & Papier Mâché

• Oiled papers and fabrics
  Fabric linings
  The wallpaper trade
  Wallpaper types
  Embossed papers
  Papier mâché and carton pierre
  C F Bielefeld
  Papier mâché in Australia
  Tarred paper and pasteboard
  Sheathing paper
  Willesden Paper

11.3 Paints

• Whitewash
  White pigments
  Oil paints
  Local manufacture
  Colouration
  Distemper and kalsomine
  Decorating practice
  Insulating and other special paints
  The twentieth century

11.4 Floor Coverings

• Oilcloth
  Kamptulikon & boulinikon
  Introduction of linoleum
  Linoleum in Australia
  Rubber
  Magnesite and wood combinations
  Soft floorcoverings

11.5 Glass

• Window glass
  Plate glass
  Local glassworking & manufacture
  Stained glass
  Transparencies
  Skylights
  Prismatic lights
  Glass blocks & double glazing
  Vita Glass
  Vitrolite & cognate materials

11.6 Shutters

• The context
  Sliding shutters
  Sheet iron shutters
  Roller shutters in Britain
  Roller shutters in Australia
  Local manufacture

12.1 Construction

• Cranes
  Machinery
  Scaffolding
  Site mechanisation

12.2 Fireproofing

• Mill construction
  Terra cotta & concrete
  Early fire protection
  Sprinklers