Straight from the heart of Australia’s leading higher education University
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Join Cullen, as he makes his way from the gourmet delights of the Sydney Seafood School to the University of Sydney Australia’s leading higher education and research University.
The tour starts at the centre of the quadrangle in the heart of the University
Where Fran Keeling joins him an archaeologist teaching archeology and ancient history here at The University of Sydney. Fran’s area of expertise is ancient Greece and Rome and their neighbours.
We begin our tour in the centre of the Quadrangle, a prominent building made of Sydney sandstone located within the University of Sydney Camperdown Campus.
In today’s podcast, Fran guides a fantastic and insightful tour of her unique views from inside the very soul of the university. The University of Sydney is well known for challenging traditions for more than 160 years, and Fran sheds light onto some of the firm traditions on which The University of Sydney is built and how many of these ideas are reflected throughout the architecture and The Quadrangle development.
The original building included the Great Hall and was constructed between 1855 and 1862. Construction on the Quadrangle began in 1854, and it had four sides by 1926.
The University of Sydney is regarded as one of the world’s leading universities Australia’s first university was founded in 1850.
The stories revealed throughout the podcast here at the oldest university in Australia, are often linked to the design of the building from the architects and craftspeople who carefully made them reflect some of the views and trends at the time.
These include areas and architecture that harks back to a sort of Gothic style, reflecting some of the thinking at the time that surrounded much of British scholarship.
The building grew up in lots of different stages, each adding to the story. The Quadrangle also includes the Great Hall, wherein part two of the interview we explore in more intricate detail and hidden tales from various aspects of its magnificent features.
Here we discover some of the narrative carved and woven into the very fabric of its creation within the Great Hall in part two of our podcast series from here in The quadrangle at The University of Sydney.
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