- David Bridgman
David Bridgman (born 16 September 1960 in
Darwin, Northern Territory ) is anAustralian architect .David Bridgman, B.Arch, BA. PhD., is a practicing Architect specialising in the field of heritage conservation and currently a Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Interior Design in the School of Creative Arts & Humanities at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory of Australia. He has over 25 years experience on a wide range of projects and his design skills have been recognised by several awards. David is committed to sustainable design principles and has completed a number of specialist projects throughout the Territory including the Royal Darwin Hospital Childcare Centre, the Tennant Creek Renal Clinic, an the CSIRO Administraton, library and laboratories.
As the Northern Territorys foremost architectural historian, David has undertaken significant research into the built environment of Australia’s northern tropics with emphasis on the various influences coming from colonial architecture of the South-East Asian region. His PhD examined Commonwealth Government housing provided for senior public servants in Darwin in the immediate pre-war period. He is currently examining the significance of the outback police station in the Northern Territory.
David specialises in the field of heritage conservation and in this role he has completed a number of conservation projects and completed studies on several of the Territorys most significant heritage buildings including:
• Reconstruction of the 1895 Wesleyan Methodist Church.
• Conservation works to the 1896 Government House
• Conservation Works to the 1935-45 East Point Military Heritage Sites.
• Conservation works to the 1940 Barr ResidenceDavid is also the author of Acclimatisation [architecture at the top end of Australia] looking at the history of architecture in the Northern Territory: a publication that was awarded the inaugural Northern Territory Chief Minister’s History Book Award. Other publications include:
• ‘An ideal life in the bush: a comparison of three police stations in Timber Creek’, in History in Practice: proceedings from the 25th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Geelong, Vic, July 2008
• ‘The Anglo-Asian Bungalow in Australia’s Northern Territory’, in A. Leach, A. Moulis & N. Sully (eds) Shifting Views: Selected Essays on the Architectural History of Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2008
• ‘Gundjeihmi Offices: Jabiru, Kakadu National Park’ Architecture Australia, July-August 2008, Vol.97, No.3, pp76-81
• ‘Modern or Modernism: Building Darwin in the 1950s’, Territory in Trust (Journal of the National Trust of Australia N.T.), Vol. 24. No.1, January – June 2007, pp9-13.
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