imothy Hill has little interest in associating himself with a “Brisbane School,” an architectural style or approach particular to south east Queensland; his concerns are far more expansive. Despite this reluctance to be defined by a relationship with the city, the influence of the practice he founded in 1992 with Brian Donovan towers over Queensland’s architectural fraternity. In addition to a seminal, genre-defying built output, Donovan Hill Architects (DHA) left behind a slew of aspiring practices modelled on DHA’s bold and idiosyncratic approach. HH House, designed in 1991 by Hill and completed a year later, soon after he graduated from the University of Queensland, is the kind of building most architects would consider the pinnacle of their career. Yet for Hill, it was only the beginning of a
