Contents: A chronological list of architects, designers and town planners xvi. In the beginning p1. Brickmaster [James Bloodsworth] p9. Hiatus p18. Prelude [Lachlan Macquarie] p29. Architects [styles of architecture] p36. Daniel Dering Mathew p39. Francis Greenway p43. Fall and decline p68. John Watts p86. Little men p97. Henry Kitchen p97. James Smith p100. Frank / Francis Lawless p100. Standish Lawrence Harris p104. George Cookney p109. Ambrosia p112. Ambrose and Edward Hallen p112. Architectural anatomy p119. Fallen arches [alterations to colonial architecture] p141. The golden thirties [1830s] p145. David Lennox p158. John Verge p168. The Goths p182. James Hume p182. Thomas Bird p189. Mortimer Lewis p190. The end of [the colonial] period p207. Appendices: no.1: Works designed by Francis Greenway p221. No.2: further notes on designers p223. Bibliography p224. Annotations to the text [notes] p228. Annotations to the illustrations p240. Index p244.