Cocks and Carmichael Collection

Full description

Large collection of drawings, plans, documents, photographs, and ephemera relating to the architectural practices of Cocks and Carmichael and Cocks Carmichael Whitford.

The collection is listed by job. The boxes are arranged by materials, thematically, and chronologically. Box 1 holds 1970-1983 documents, brochures and ephemera relating to individual houses; Box 3, photographs, and slides of work; Box 4, photographs, negatives and transparencies, Box 5 submissions, Box 6, publications, and journals. Roads/Infrastructure projects are housed in Boxes 13/14; Municipal projects are housed in 15,16, and 18. 

Cocks and Carmichael was Australian architectural partnership formed in Melbourne in 1967 by Robin Cocks (born Melbourne,25 Nov 1941) and Peter Carmichael (born Melbourne, 18 July 1942). Cocks and Carmichael both studied at the University of Melbourne, Cocks graduating in 1965, and Carmichael in 1966. After short stints working in various Melbourne architectural practices, they established their architectural practice in 1967. In the 1960s and 1970s Cocks and Carmichael designed homes focusing on affordable and sustainable housing. The practice designed some of Melbourne’s most innovative individual and project houses, many located on the Mornington Peninsula. From 1970 the practice collaborated with two project building companies, Design 70, a short-lived project home building company based in South Yarra, and Civic Constructions, a leading project home building company founded in Sydney in 1960 which expanded to Melbourne in 1969. In the late 1970s Cocks & Carmichael became consultant architects to Merchant Builders, an influential Australian project house-building company. In 1979 the practice won awards for the Solar House designed for Landmark Builders. During the 1980s, the firm moved into other fields, including public architecture and urban design, significant projects include the Moorabbin City Offices and Council Chambers (1988) and the Yarra River Pedestrian Bridge, Southbank, (1989). In 2015 Robin Cocks and Peter Carmichael donated the practice’s archive to the RMIT Design Archives.