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Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">224</span> General Correspondence, Reports and Awards</div>

224 General Correspondence, Reports and Awards

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">1</span> Correspondence</div>

1 Correspondence

1 Brochures from Berry Polomka (Unknown) and Reffen Maron Architects

2 Christmas Cards

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2 Reports

1 Australia's Intelligent Home

2 Report to the Australian Construction Industry Forum

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3 Awards

1 Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design 1906-2006

2 Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards 2004

3 20th Anniversary of the Grand Pipe Organ

4 New Outlook

5 Architecture Australia - Year of the Built Environment 2004 National Awards

6 The Architects Collaborative

7 Art and Design Education Resource Guide

8 Economoy Off-site Building

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">225</span> Plenwood Systems</div>

225 Plenwood Systems

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">1</span> Correspondence from Techsearch Inc.</div>

1 Correspondence from Techsearch Inc.

1 Correspondence from Techsearch Inc

2 Australian Bureau of Statistics report

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">2</span> Plenwood Systems Information</div>

2 Plenwood Systems Information

1 Memoranda, word processed correspondence between Techsearch Inc and Radiata Pine Research Institute Inc.

2 Photocopy of brochure entitled: Plenwood Underfloor Heating/Cooling System

3 Photocoy of article entitled: Underfloor Plenum System for Heating and Cooling

4 Photocopy of article entitled: The Under Floor Plenum: an alternative to concrete slab and crawlspace construction

5 Photocopy of article entitled: The Plenwood System: (Revised July 1979) containing the N.A.H.B. Research Foundation Inc. Underfloor Plenum Manual

6 Photocopy of article entitled: Plenwood: an improved wood floor system

7 Photocopy of article entitled: Low Profile Wood Floor Unknown Systems: Technical Report No. 4.

8 Looseleaf sheets

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">227</span> Log Systems</div>

227 Log Systems

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">1</span> Log Systems SA</div>

1 Log Systems SA

1 Photocopy entitled: Patent Specification: Original 89211/82, John Joseph Vitkovsky: 527346

2 Photocopy of technical drawing

3 Document entitled - Specifications: Prefabricated CCA Reinforced Raft Footing

4 Photocopy of technical drawing: Wall Section

5 Hand written note

6 Technical drawings

7 Brochure entitled: Quality Solid Log Homes Company

8 Construction manual for Log Systems homes

9 Kit Price List

10 Hand written notes and sketches

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">238</span> Design Competitions</div>

238 Design Competitions

1 269 RAIA National Architecture Awards - St Pauls Redevelopment, 200 Pulteney St, Adelaide

2 272 RAIA National Architecture Awards - Loreto College Junior School, 1 Talbot Grove, Marryatville

3 291 RAIA National Architecture Awards - Wren House, 166 Longwood Rd, Heathfield SA

4 257 RAIA National Architecture Awards - Four 2 storey townhouses, 24-30 Charlotte St, Adelaide

5 Blackwood Park House Design Competition

6 Adelaide Affordable Eco Housing Award

7 Torode House 1911

8 National Architectural Design Competition

9 Bushfire Resistant Home Competition

10 Neales Place Housing Competition

11 Adelaide Workmen's Homes Incorporated Competition Drawings

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">240</span> RAIA Significant 20th Century Architecture</div>

240 RAIA Significant 20th Century Architecture

1 Correspondence

1 Correspondence relating to the Register of Significant 20th Century Architecture

2 Correspondence from the Australian Heritage Commission

3 Correspondence relating to the RAIA

4 Correspondence to Schenk

5 Correspondence from the Australian Heritage Commission

6 Correspondence from the Australian Heritage Commission

7 Correspondence relating to the Significant 20th Century Architecture Project.

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2 Minutes and agendas

1 Meeting at RAIA Headquarters

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">3</span> Data sheets for 20C Significant Architecture Project</div>

3 Data sheets for 20C Significant Architecture Project

1 Data sheets for buildings classed M.

2 Data sheets for building classed A.

3 Data sheets for buildings classed C

4 Index and data cards for houses built out of concrete.

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4 Minutes and agenda of Steering Committee meetings.

1 Minutes and notice of meetings held by the Steering committee

2 Notice of a meeting of the Steering committee

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">5</span> Royal Australian Institute of Architects - NSW chapter, Bulletin Mar. 1979.</div>

5 Royal Australian Institute of Architects - NSW chapter, Bulletin Mar. 1979.

1 R.A.I.A., NSW chapter, Bulletin, March 1979. Title: Twentieth Century buildings of Significance: list revised as at 31 December 1978.

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6 Booklets of 20th Century Architecture relating to Victoria.

1 Twentieth Century Architecture and Works of Victoria

2 Untitled booklet relating to Twentieth Century Architect and Works

7 Map Guides of Adelaide and Sydney

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295 Student Works

1 Villa of Pope Julius

2 The Villa of Pope Julius

3 Temple on Ilissus - Athens

4 Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) Anthony's Speech

5 A Primitive House

6 Sketch Design for Production in Sydney Opera House

7 Seaview, Chapel Hill

8 A Bus Shelter

9 An Espresso Coffee Lounge

10 The University Bookroom

11 A Bank and Attached Residence

12 Paterson Residence

13 10 Avenue Street, Millswood

14 No Title: possibly for Peter Burgess Studio Architecture

15 Ngarrindjeri Keeping Place

16 Ashwood Estate Winery, Oakbank S.A.

17 Food, Culture and Community Project 2

18 The Levels Campus: An Alternative Ideas Plan

19 Paterson Residence

20 Loxton: Proposed Aquarium

21 Constraints, Parameters, Invention Project 3

22 View from Pultney Street

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350 Architectural Work by John Schenk

1 18 Wellington Terrace, Fullarton

2 Lots 36 and 37 Golf Links Road

3 Landscape in Unley Park

4 Petaluma on Spring Gully Road in Piccadilly

5 28 Dunn Street, North Adelaide

6 Lot 11 Old Mt Barker Road, Stirling East

7 3 Walsall Street, Kensington Gardens

8 23 High Steet Unley Park

9 Lot 1 Langmeil Road Tanunda

10 Corner of Westall Street and Commercial Road, Hyde Park

11 Lot 5 Ben Acre Close, Glen Osmond

12 25 High Street, Unley Park

13 Pencil Sketches

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387 Student Reports

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">1</span> Student Reports for Housing Studies Subject</div>

1 Student Reports for Housing Studies Subject

1 Urban consolidation begins at home

2 What is the South Australian Community Housing Authority's "Group Self-Build" Scheme?

3 Multifunction Polis

4 Foxfield - A way of life inspired by nature

5 Kit Homes

6 Gordon Higgins Kingston Park Residence

7 Allergy-Free Housing: Case Study Analysis

8 Independently Funded Community Housing

9 Housing Co-operatives in South Australia

10 Housing and Development

11 Competitive Costing

12 Project Homes in South Australia

13 Roxby Downs - A Mining Town

14 Small Homes Service

15 Capital and Running Costs of an Energy Efficient Home

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">389</span> South Australian Contemporary Architects Biographic Data Project</div>

389 South Australian Contemporary Architects Biographic Data Project

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">1</span> Newspapers, Journals and Magazines</div>

1 Newspapers, Journals and Magazines

2 Architect biographies

1 Thomas Henry Lyon

2 Peter Jansen

3 Earle Scott

Collapse <div class=""><span class="treeNumbers">3</span> Architectural Drawings</div>

3 Architectural Drawings

1 196 Glen Osmond Road, Frewville house plans

2 196 Glen Osmond Road, Frewville house plans 2

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390 Architects Accreditation Council of Australia

1 Correspondence

2 Guides

3 Briefs

Russell S. Ellis, ‘Un Monument a la Source d’un Fleuve’, Student work, Adelaide, 1932, Ellis collection

SCHENK, John Collection
Description	Contains 7 series of material related to the career of John R. Schenk. Includes correspondence, material on plenwood systems, material on log systems, information on design competitions, material on the Significant 20th Century Architecture Project, and student work.
Dates:	1968 - 1997
Architect / Firm	John R. Schenk