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Australian Arts

Ulysses

15 May 2021

9:00 AM

15 May 2021

9:00 AM

If you wanted a college at the University of Melbourne that had no hint of imitation Oxbridge you would turn to Newman. With all that low-roofed sandstone and austere glamour Burley Griffin gave to a design that owes something to Gaudi’s Sagrada Família, Newman is not colonial British. It bespeaks Latin culture, Catholic culture, that element of Irish defiance that made the Jesuits of 60 years ago wear the one sleeved Sorbonne gown that memorialised the time when they were outlawed in the British Isles.

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