1926 Born October 28 second child of Doris [nee Quinn], tobacco worker and William Borland, laborer at West Melbourne.

1930 - 37 Attended Errol Street State School, North Melbourne. Awarded the Percy Walker Scholarship, an annual award to two boys and two girls in Kensington.

1938 - 41 Attended University High School: Merit Certificate - 1939, Proficiency certificate - 1940, Intermediate Certificate - 1941

1941 - 42 Office boy for Best Overend, Architect. Part time architectural studies at the Melbourne Technical College. Building Construction - Pass. Geometrical Drawing - Credit

1942 - 43 University High School: Matriculation

1944 University of Melbourne: 1st Year Bachelor of Architecture

1944 - 46 Royal Australian Naval Reserve: War Service - Australia, [Darwin], Morotai, Phillipines, Japan, [Okinawa], Hong Kong, Among the first Australian ships into Hiroshima.

1946 - 50 University of Melbourne: Bachelor of Architecture, Graduated with 2nd Class Honours in Town Planning. Co-produced Architect's Revue 48 - 50. Awards - Illuminating Engineers Society Student's Award for Light in Architecture

1950 Worked with Lester Bunbury [member of the Society of Industrial Artists] on exhibition work.

1950 Worked with Harry Seidler at Point Piper whilst manufacturing chairs and selling them with Peter Makeig around Sydney.

1951 Assistant in office of Mockridge Stahle & Mitchell Architects, lecturers at Melbourne University. Post Graduate Course in Town Planning. Degree with Honours in Town Planning 2nd Class.

1951 - 52 Invited by Robin Boyd to become Assistant Director, Age Small Homes Service.

1952 Invited by Robin Boyd and Roy Grounds to participate in design competition for Olympic Games Track and Field Stadium [unsuccessful]

1952 Entered National Competition for Olympic Swimming Pool with J & P Murphy, Peter McIntyre and W. L. Irwin. Awards - First Prize in competition.

1953 First House selected by Robin Boyd for exhibition in U.S.A. as representative of Australia's Architectural Development. Entered Age - RAIA Small Homes Service competition for House Design. Awards - Special Prize for House Design.

1954 Invited along with five other architects to enter limited competition for Academy of Science Building Canberra [won by Roy Grounds]

1954 Married to Margaret Agnes Aitken - Six daughters and one son!

1955 Senior lecturer in Design [evening] Melbourne Technical College.

1956 Senior lecturer in Design [day] Melbourne Technical College. Awards - RAIA Bronze Medal for Domestic Architecture, Architecture & Arts award for Building of the Year for the Olympic Swimming Pool.

1957 Commencement of practice Borland & Trewenack. Awards - First Prize: Ideal Homes Show 'Plywood Distributor's Stand'.

1958 Exhibition work for Paton Brake Replacement, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. Awards - First Prize Motor Show Melbourne.

1959 Exhibition work for Paton Brake Replacement, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. Took group of sixty students from Royal Melbourne Technical College to RAIA Covention in Brisbane, the first time this had been done. Arrangements made with Sydney schools for greater degree of intercommunication. Awards - First Prize Motor Show Melbourne.

1960 Appointed Acting Deputy Head, Melbourne Technical College School of Architecture & Building. Produced First Architect's Revue. Invited to exhibit house design with fifteen other architects at Museum of Modern Art Victoria.

1961 Commenced discussions which eventually led to establishment of part time Course in Landscape Architecture. Resigned as day lecturer Melbourne Technical College. Selected as Victorian Representative in Sisalkraft Scholarship [architects under 35 years of age]. Unsuccessful. Appointed by Women's Weekly to administer Plan service throughout Australia.

1963 Arranged for Women's Weekly Plan Service to be associated with South Australian and Queensland Chapters of RAIA. Awards - Architecture & Arts Award for best Building for Preshil School Hall. Nominated as one of the ten best Australian buildings for 1963.

1964 Assessor for Adelaide Chapter of the RAIA Small Homes Competition. Awards - Inaugural Copper Industry Annual Scholarship the only national Scholarship awarded to any Australian architect.

1965 Partnership Borland & Trewenack dissolved. The Practice Kevin Borland and Associates commenced.

1966 Invited to Perth by Architecture Students of Australia to attend Student convention in which Jacob Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, Buckminster Fuller and John Voelcker were the main speakers. Subsequent to this a guest of John Voelcker in London and Aldo van Eyck in Holland and invited by Buckminster Fuller to lecture in the U.S.A.

Invited by Doxiadis to attend Ekistics conference in Athens July 1966.Visited Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, New Delhi, Karachi, Athens, Constantinople, Rome, Florence, Barcelona [Gaudi], France [Paris and all of le Corbusier's work except Marseille] U.K., Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, U.S.S.R. studying architectural education.

1966 Assessor fo Adelaide Chapter of the RAIA Home Design Competition.

1968 Examiner [Design] for ARBV.

1969 Awards - Vic Chapter RAIA Citation for Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool in association with Daryl Jackson.

1970 Fellow of the RAIA. Assessor for Housing Industry Association competition for the Best House using Gas. Honorary Architect for Aboriginal Advancement League and residents at Cummeragunja, N.S.W. [near Barmah]. Organised mud brick demontration and working bee over a period of a year. Assessor for the RAIA Vic Chapter Annual Design Awards. Assessor for Student Design Awards [Final Year Architecture] University of Melbourne.

1971 Three Borland buildings chosen amongst the eighty Australian buildings from the previous three years to be exhibited by the Industrial Design Institute of Australia at the international conference in Spain. Buildings were the Legend Restaurant, Paton House, Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool. Assessor for the Johnson-Page Scholarship.

1972 Resigned as Part time lecturer RMTC. Honorary Architect fior Aboriginal Advancement League and residents at Cummeragunja, N.S.W. [near Barmah].Requested by President of the A.C.T.U. R. J. Hawke to convene and prepare a report on the Housing Industry for the A.C.T.U. Awards - RAIA Vic. Chapter Bronze Medal for new buildings andf site development at Preshil School. House of the year Award of Merit from the RAIA Vic Chapter for the Paton House.

1973 Final Year Chairman for Thesis Presentation, University of Melbourne, School of Architecture. Invited participant [one of eight architects from Victoria] in the A.N.U. conference 'Planning for Uncertainty'

1974 Founded Architect's Group P/L in Melbourne. Awards - RAIA Vic Chapter Bronze Medal for Nichols House, Eltham. Citation for Crossman Flats Launching Place.

1975 Advisor to RMTC [RMIT?] School of Interior DesignInvited participant in a Department of Education Seminar relating to funding of non-government building programmes. Requested to visit and report on Institute of Technology Architecture Course, Haifa, Israel by Commonwealth Committee on Overseas Professional Qualification. Apponted representative of McDonald, Benjamin and Smyth, Loss Adjusters to investigate and report on claims in Darwin after Cyclone Tracy. Appointed architects for David Jones old store in Perth in respect of possible future development. Appointed architect for Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences. Undertook round the world study tour investigatingparamedical schools in New York, Seattle Los Angeles, U.K. and France.

Simultaneously visited architecture schools at Berkeley, Seattle and University of California. Appointed architect for McCaughey House Broadford initiated use of RMTC architecture students as building labour under control of craftsman-builders. Interviewed by Dr Miles and Peter Scrymgour, Campus architect to undertake planning of market area for for South Australian Institute of Technology development.Arranged association with Shepheard, Epstein and Hunter U.K. architects for the Open University in the event of confirmation of appointment.

1977 Architect for Noall Residence, Skiathos Greece, Shannon Residence Merimbula N.S.W., Fitzgerald Residence, Hobart, Tasmania. Awards - RAIA Vic Chapter Citation for Brief for North Melbourne Community Centre, Citation for New Gordon House.

1978 Visited Greece, Europe and U.K. on Study Tour and site investigation in Greece. Architect for up-grade of Olympic Pool into State Indoor Sports Centre. Value $6 million. Architect for Huntington's Disease Clinic used partipatory exercises and action methods to ensure patient and family participation in design process. Architect to Melbourne City Council to ensure North melbourne Community Centre Report is put into effect.Awards - RAIA Vic Chapter Citation - Mt Eliza North Primary School.

1979 Member Board of Continuing Education RAIA, Member Australian Association for Community Education. Introductory tour of suburbs for 1st Year Interior Design students at RMIT. Final Year tutor University of Melbourne School of Architecture. Invited by students of Architecture at Deakin University to lecture on Design Methods and School Architecture. Nominated by RAIA Vic Chapter to participate in limited competition for Low Energy House. Requested by University of Melbourne School of Architecture to host Bruce Goff and to undertake a tour of Borland houses for Goff. Requested by Dr Stephen Murray-Smith [editor] to write Chapter on Future of Architectural Education for 'Melbourne Studies in Education' 1980 edition. Requested by Roger Pegrum University of Sydney School of Architecture to participate in book on design problems and their resolution by providing case study material. Nominated by Sir Roy Grounds to the Building Committee of the Victorian College of the Arts as architect for the new centre in St Kilda Road.

1980 Lecturer at University fo Melbourne and RMIT. Architect for Dr. D. Fitzgerald House, Kingston Tasmania.Awards - Fitzgerald House included on list of notable Tasmanian houses by the RAIA Tas Chapter.

1981 Appointed Foundation Professor of Architecture Deakin University June 1981. Awards - Australia Japan Foundation Scholarship

1982 Exhibition of Borland work in Hawthorn at Hawthorn Art Gallery. Two Borland buildings included in the ninety Australian buildings selected by the federal Government and the Visual Arts Board for the first International exhibition of Australian Architecture. RAIA Awards Building Jury Chairman.

1983 RAIA Vic Chapter Building Jury Panel member. Visiting Professor University of N.S.W. Visiting Fellow University of Western Australia. Visiting Professor Design at T.C.A.E. Launceston. Invited by Professor Day Ding to apply to University of Urbana - Champaign Illinois for Visiting Professorship.

1984 Awards - RAIA Vic Chapter House of the Year for Roger Evans Residence Queenscliff.

1985 Appointed Director of Architecture Building Management Authority, Western Australia. Two year contract. Appointed to Board of Architectural Education RAIA Western Australian Chapter. Judge for Bunnings Timber in Architecture Award.

1986 Judge for RAIA W.A. Chapter, House of Year Award.

2000 Kevin Borland died in Melbourne aged 74.