Tim Reeves is a historian and author, with a particular interest in architectural history and gay history. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class Joint Honours in History and Politics from the University of Adelaide, gained in 1992.
Mr Reeves has written four books. His first, 100 Canberra Houses: A Century of Capital Architecture – co-authored with Alan Roberts – was published in 2013. It won the Clem Cummings Medal from the ACT Institute of Architects, and was reissued in updated form in 2022. His second, from 2020, was Winning Homes: 75 Australian House Design Competitions, which tracks these events over 150 years from 1827 to 1976. His third, The Death of Dr Duncan, was released in 2022 to commemorate the 50th ... Read more
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Tim Reeves is a historian and author, with a particular interest in architectural history and gay history. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class Joint Honours in History and Politics from the University of Adelaide, gained in 1992.
Mr Reeves has written four books. His first, 100 Canberra Houses: A Century of Capital Architecture – co-authored with Alan Roberts – was published in 2013. It won the Clem Cummings Medal from the ACT Institute of Architects, and was reissued in updated form in 2022. His second, from 2020, was Winning Homes: 75 Australian House Design Competitions, which tracks these events over 150 years from 1827 to 1976. His third, The Death of Dr Duncan, was released in 2022 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the case, and launched at Adelaide Writers’ Week. Mr Reeves also acted as historical consultant to the oratorio Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan, which was commissioned and mounted as part of the Adelaide Festival that year.
Mr Reeves’ fourth book is Adelaide Modernism: 101 Houses, which is due out from Wakefield Press in 2023. It covers the period from 1939 to 1974 and features more than 70 architects, with nearly half their own home. The book is being published in partnership with the Architecture Museum of the University of South Australia, South Australian Institute of Architects and State Library of South Australia.
Mr Reeves’ journal articles have included ‘Playford, Dunstan, Bannon, and the Adelaide Festival of Arts 1960-1992’ and ‘Dr Duncan Revisited’ for the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia. His interest in the early Australian architects is revealed in ‘Daniel Dering Mathew: A Reassessment of Australia’s “first trained architect”’ for the Journal of Australian Colonial History, and ‘Australia’s First Architectural Competitions, 1826-27’, which is forthcoming in Fabrications.
Mr Reeves has published a variety of book chapters, including on the three attempts at gay law reform in South Australia from 1972 to 1975, and entries in scholarly editions. His journalism ranges over 30 years with 10 pieces in newspapers such as the Advertiser, Australian and Sydney Morning Herald. He has lectured at Flinders University and delivered talks to forums such as Design Canberra Festival, the History Trust of South Australia’s Talking History program and South Australia’s Festival of Architecture and Design.
Mr Reeves’ current work is completing his fourth book and pursuing the cinematographic adaptation of his third.
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