Freeland's 'Architecture in Australia: A History' on the other hand acknowledged the diversity of approaches prevalent in post-war Australian architecture but was inclined to attribute it to the increasing sophistication of available building technologies dazzling architects with a suddenly much wider range of potential formal strategies to apply to their buildings.
Another important characteristic of the local architecture of the early 1950's was the structural exuberance it often exhibited.
The influence of Lloyd-Wright on Melbourne architecture probably peaked however in the 1960's with the work of Geoffrey Woodfall, the former Guilford Bell collaborator David Godsell, Charles Duncan, the commercial practice Jorgensen and Hough and some of the projects of Kevin Knight then design architect for the old Melbourne practice of Oakley and Parkes.
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