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Academic Staff

Dr Amanda Achmadi, Melbourne School of Design
Dr AnnMarie Brennan, Melbourne School of Design
Dr Karen Burns, Melbourne School of Design
Dr Kirsten Day, Melbourne School of Design
Professor Qinghua Guo, Melbourne School of Design
Associate Professor Alison Inglis, Faculty of Arts
Dr Andrew Jamieson, Faculty of Arts
Professor Gini Lee, Melbourne School of Design
Dr Jonathan Kemp, Grimwade Centre
Dr Stuart King, Melbourne School of Design
Dr Susan Lowish, Faculty of Arts
Dr Giorgio Marfella, Melbourne School of Design
Professor Kate MacNeill, Faculty of Arts
Associate Professor David Nichols, Melbourne School of Design
Professor Alan Pert, Melbourne School of Design
Dr Alberto Pugnale, Melbourne School of Design
Associate Professor Peter Raisbeck, Melbourne School of Design
Associate Professor Andrew Saniga, Melbourne School of Design
Professor Paul Walker, Melbourne School of Design
Professor Robyn Sloggett, Faculty of Arts
Professor Sara Wills, Faculty of Arts
Scott Woods, Melbourne School of Design

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Advisory Board

Centre Coordinator

Theo Blankley

HDR students

Name	Topic	Supervisors
Allan Willingham	The Tennis Court: An Architectural History	Philip Goad
Ammon Beyerle	Participation in Architecture : Agonism in Practice	Karen Burns
Andrew Murray	The Influence of British Émigré Architects on Western Australian Architecture and Planning, 1945-1975	Hannah Lewi and Phillip Goad
Anneke Prins	Actualising the Virtual: Re-engaging the Sensing Body through the Manipulation of Atmospheres	Paul Walker
Annette Warner	Systems of performng beauty: the aesthetic agency of Gordon Ford's natural garden	Gini Lee
Anthony Worm	Free and Architecture and Goff	Paul Walker
Astrid Andrea Ortega Esquivel	Managing urban and landscape heritage through the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach: the case study of Valparaíso, Chile	Anna Hurlimann
Claire Miller	How does society become complicit in its own oppression through the mechanism of spatialised fear and politics?	AnnMarie Brennan and David Nichols
Claire O'Boyle	Buildings for Curious Minds: An Investigation of Architecture and Design Practices for the Finnish Kindergarten Setting	Hannah Lewi
Elizabeth Musgrave	John Dalton: Architect of Sunlight, Shade and Shadow	Phillip Goad
Fiona Johnson	A Comparative Study of Civic Space Design in the Contemporary Settler Societies of Australia and New Zealand	Jillian Walliss and Hannah Lewi
Hamid Khalili	Re-Investing Reciprocity between Moving Image (Cinema), Design and Architecture through the 'Architect's Gaze'	AnnMarie Brennan and Greg Missingham
John Castles	The Impact of Building Standards on Contemporary Construction	Giorgio Marfella
Jonathan Lovell	Dogma to Data: Ritual and Transcendental Experiences in immersive Multimedia Environments	AnnMarie Brennan
Kristal Buckley	Understanding Global Heritage: Key Issues	Kate Darian Smith and Philip Goad
Libby Richardson	Ornament and Surface Decoration in Contemporary Melbourne Architecture	Hannah Lewi and Philip Goad
Lu Zhang	Abstract Tradition and Its Potential in Theorised Design: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Practice in China and Japan since 1990.	Jianfei Zhu
Marcus Fajl	The Fate of Ornament in Early Twentieth Century Architecture	Hannah Lewi and Karen Burns
Nesha Naidoo	Parks, playgrounds, promenades, pageants and piazzas: the changing ideas of designed public spaces in Melbourne 1850–2000	Richard Gillespie and Julie Willis
Philip Goldswain	Photographic Cities: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 1893-1917	Hannah Lewi and Andrew Saniga
Rebecca Clements	Sustainable and Policies: Japanese Vicinity Parking	David Nichols
Ruth Redden	Heritage and sustainability: how to ensure historic buildings are culturally, environmentally and economically sustainable.	Hannah Lewi and Philip Goad
Scott Woods	Face: An Aesthetico-Political Paradigm in American Architectural Theory 1984-2009	Paul Walker and Phillip Goad
Sharon Shafer	The Utopian Paradox of High-Rise Housing in Australia between 1945-2010	Peter Raisbeck and Julie Willis
Simona Castricum	What if Safety became Permanent? Gender Nonconforming Experiences of Architecture - Space and Practice	Karen Burns
Tania Davidge	Encountering Architecture	Karen Burns
Timothy Moore	The instruments of transitional architecture: locating the value of short-term temporary projects in long-term urban frameworks	Karen Burns
Victoria Kolankiewicz	A Social History of Quarrying in Melbourne	David Nichols
Yinrui Xie	Architecture as a Sign System: A Semiotic Study of China's Christian Universities	Paul Walker and Julie Willis

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Our ACAHUCH researchers are actively involved in teaching across the undergraduate and graduate programs here at the Faculty.

The Master of Urban and Cultural Heritage (MUCH) is an industry-focused, cross-disciplinary program open to graduates who are passionate about the social and cultural dimensions of the built environment in the twenty-first century.

The program focuses on heritage in a global context, with key features including the exploration of new approaches to digital technologies and heritage, issues of heritage significance as well as the social and economic impact of cultural heritage in relation to reconstruction and across the tourism industry.

Explore the course

Graduate profile: Amanda Valenzuela Pallamar

What was your favourite subject in the program to date and why?

I loved “Representing and Remembering place”. It was a very interesting subject that allowed me to look into the concept of “place” from so many different perspectives.

What attracted you to the Melbourne School of Design?

I wanted a Master that combined strong practical and theoretical approaches to heritage and doing research about the different Master programs the one that MSD had to offer was the most attractive one.

So far, what are the most valuable skills that you have learnt?

The most important skill the Master has given me has been to be critical, reflective and to understand the complexity of the concept of “heritage” today.

Meet our graduates

PhD supervision

Many of our researchers offer PhD supervision across a broad range of research areas. Get in touch to enquire about supervision opportunities.

Our People

MicroCerts

ACAHUCH offers a comprehensive suite of professional development short courses in urban and cultural heritage through the Melbourne School of Professional and Continuing Education (MSPACE).

The ACAHUCH Melbourne MicroCert series is designed for professionals of diverse backgrounds seeking to expand their applied skills in Urban and Cultural Heritage. Our four online short courses draw upon the world-leading research, teaching and industry expertise within the Centre.

Whether you’re looking to upskill, expand your knowledge or take the next step in your career, our innovative and engaging courses will help unlock your potential so you can thrive in a continuously evolving world.

ACAHUCH will offer our suite of Microcerts in 2024.

Over the last five years, ACAHUCH has hosted a series of Exhbitions, showcasing a variety of materials related to urban and cultural heritage and architectural history.

Over the last five years, ACAHUCH has hosted a series of Symposia, drawing a diverse selection of international and national speakers, keynotes, participants and audiences.

ACAHUCH fosters important research in architectural, planning, cultural and urban history and heritage conservation. It also contributes to and produces a range of research publications.

ACAHUCH also aims to engage with academics, practitioners and researchers from across the world. Starting in 2020, ACAHUCH began partnering with Critical and Curatorial Practices in Design, a research subject at the Melbourne School of Design, headed by Professor Alan Pert and Professor Philip Goad on a series of lectures and seminars during the COVID-19 Pandemic to foster further international partnerships.

Recent Publications

Graduate Research Papers and Theses

Below is a database in development of links to associated Heritage bodies, industry resources and databases to assist in the better transmission of knowledge about Architecture, Urban and Cultural Heritage practices.

Community
- National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
- Victorian National Trust Advocacy Blog
- Links to other state and territory trusts
- DOCOMOMO Australia
- Robin Boyd Foundation
- Melbourne Heritage Action
- Royal Historical Society of Victoria
- History Council of Victoria
- Citizens for Melbourne
- Koorie Heritage Trust
- Open House Melbourne comprising previous Heritage Addresses and Speaker Series content
State Government
National and International
Key Heritage Lists
- Victorian Heritage Database comprising various state, local and community heritage lists.
- Victorian National Trust Classification Register
- Australian Heritage Database comprising various lists
- Australian National Heritage List
- Australian World Heritage List
- UNESCO World Heritage List
- UNESCO World Heritage List - in danger
- World Monuments Fund Watch
Professional Bodies
- Australia ICOMOS and ICOMOS
- ICCROM
- RAIA
- PIA
International Literature Archives
- Pencil Points Magazine Archive (1920-1945)
- Progressive Architecture Magazine Archive (1945-1990)
University of Melbourne

ACAHUCH regularly holds events, symposia, lectures, panels and discussions that may be of interest to our audience. Most of these are recorded for reference and posted on our Youtube channel, hosted by the Melbourne School of Design - below are a snapshot of key recordings.
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Video Resources

The Burra Charter Turns 40

In 2019, the Burra Charter turned 40! As part of our acknowledgement of this significant landmark, Australia ICOMOS and ACAHUCH hosted panel discussions to celebrate and reflect on the document’s success and evolution, and to consider its capacity to respond to an evolving heritage landscape. The event involved hearty discussion between Professor Philip Goad and the panelists, Helen Lardner, Meg Goulding, Dr James Lesh and Emeritus Prof Miles Lewis.
A (short) History of the Japanese Room
Design Details of the Japanese Room

ACAHUCH International

Showcasing collaborative presentations between ACAHUCH and electives at the Melbourne School of Design, including Critical and Curatorial Practices in Design, Architecture Design Studios, and the Masters of Urban and Cultural Heritage (MUCH) program.

ACAHUCH INTERNATIONAL | Jorge Otero-Pailos (UC)

Please join us for the last MSD Public Lecture for 2022 with Professor Jorge Otero-Pailos, Director of Historic Preservation, Columbia University. Dust, the kind the atmosphere deposits on buildings, is an important historical and environmental record that usually goes unrecognized.
The artworks in The Ethics of Dust series isolate dust and make it tangible by transferring it from the surface of buildings onto translucent casts. In this lecture, I will present a selection of dust casts taken from buildings around the world, and discuss the unexpected histories that each of them unveils. I will connect the dots between these punctual histories to outline a larger concept they all contribute to, namely that of atmospheric heritage.
ACAHUCH INTERNATIONAL | Eva Branscome (Bartlett, UCL) on Hans Hollein's 'Austrienalle'

ACAHUCH International | Eva Branscome (Bartlett, UCL) on Hans Hollein's 'Austrienalle' | 26.04.22
This lecture will discuss the curation of the 1968 Milan Triennale Austrian Pavillion by Austrian Architect and Artist, Hans Hollein. Looking at ‘The Great Number’ through Austrian glasses: Hans Hollein’s Exhibition at the 1968 Milan Triennale In 1968 the Austrian architect and artist, Hans Hollein, was asked to curate the Austrian Pavilion for the 14th Triennale in Milan.
The exhibition’s theme, ‘The Great Number’, was intended to address a growing disenchantment within modernity manifesting itself through global issues such as overpopulation, overproduction, mass waste, increased mobility, as well as social and psychological alienation: topics that had become increasingly urgent. Hollein’s response was to create an action-environment. Titled the ‘Austriennale’ it consisted of a Freudian and Kafkaesque experience of parallel corridors titled ‘supermarket’, ‘waste’, ‘snowstorm’, ‘overcrowding’, ‘frustration’, ‘population increase’, ‘dead-end’, and finally ‘isolation/individualisation’. Hollein’s idea was to address the problems arising in the post-war globalised world within a specifically local Austrian context.
The end of WWII had created a deep sense of cultural dislocation for Austria. Rediscovering the nation’s cultural and historical specificity beyond a Nazi agenda, or the commercial imperative of mass tourism, was crucial to artistic production for Hollein and others. Culturally Catholic, the influx of colonizing influences which arrived in Austrian via post-war American re-education initiatives created during the 1960s unexpected artistic mutations of pop, communication, commodification, Cold War science, and the spectre of the apocalypse, while some contributors were also seduced by the extreme escapist option of simply living in a bubble on the moon. These concepts were fused within a typically Austrian attitude which combined cynicism, sex, and the abandoning of limits by an avant-garde that, along with Hollein, was preoccupied with the human body.
Ironically, the Milan Triennale was closed down and occupied during the 1968 student uprisings as a manifestation of the global problems it was seeking to address. Additionally, and intended as a provocation culturally specific to the Austrian situation, the Vienna Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler proposed his own alternative action-environment as a retort to Hollein's pavilion. The ‘Austriennale’ installation can thus be read as a fertile cauldron for art, architecture and exhibition design encapsulating the aspirations and fears of the European avant-garde against the backdrop of US hegemony and Cold War anxiety. Chaired by Professor Alan Pert (Deputy Dean of Melbourne School of Design).
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Dr Eva Branscome has been working at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London since 2012. Originally trained as an interior architect, Eva studied for her PhD at the Bartlett. Her research and teaching work has two main strands: the first engages with the links between built heritage and cultural practices in contemporary Western cities, whether expressed through cultural institutions or counter-cultural and street art; the second is in the 19th- and 20th-century architectural history of Central Europe, focussing particularly upon Austria and other regions in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Eva’s work concentrates particularly on the intersections of architecture and media, such as exhibitions, publications, and photography, as well as museum architecture as a cultural and urban hinge. These topics intersect with her extensive experience in British architectural heritage having spent a decade as a caseworker for the Twentieth Century Society. Eva has published extensively – including Hans Hollein and Postmodernism (Routledge, 2019), the first major monograph on that architect-artist. She has co-curated exhibitions at the MAK Gallery in Vienna, ICA in London and Museum Abteiberg in Germany, and has previously taught architectural history at Queen Mary University, Oxford Brookes University and the University of Westminster.
ACAHUCH INTERNATIONAL | Pippo Ciorra (MAXXI) + Scott Woods (MSD) on Aldo Rossi : Exhibitions

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Join Pippo Ciorra, Senior Curator at MAXXI, and Scott Woods , Academic Fellow at MSD and member of the Australian Centre of Architectural History Urban and Cultural Heritage, to discuss 'Aldo Rossi : Exhibitions' in the lead-up to MAXXI's December retrospective.
ACAHUCH + CCPD | Langlands & Bell and Prof Alan Pert

Langlands & Bell are two artists who work collaboratively. Ben Langlands (born London 1955) and Nikki Bell (born London 1959), began collaborating in 1978. Their artistic practice ranges from sculpture, film and video, to innovative digital media projects, art installations and full-scale architecture. Their work focuses on the complex web of relationships linking people with architecture and the built environment, and on a wider global level, the coded systems of mass-communications and exchange we use to negotiate an increasingly fast-changing technological world. The Turner Prize nominated British artists have never shied away from delving into risky subjects, especially those that reopen the old wounds of human history. For the artists, architectural structures bear witness to the political, cultural and economic events that have shaped our world. The very survival of these structures serves as moments of truth for times that have since come and gone.
Throughout their four-decade career Langlands & Bell have consistently revealed both the beauty and violence behind some of the world’s most historically challenging structures. This includes their Turner Prize-shortlisted interactive work The House of Osama bin Laden that was commissioned in 2002 by London’s Imperial War Museum to document and investigate postwar Afghanistan as part of the aftermath of September 11, 2001, and which saw the artists venture inside the former home of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. In 2020, Langlands & Bell created work inspired by British architect Sir John Soane for their show Degrees of Truth (4 March 2020-3 January 2021) at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London exploring the complex web of relationships between people, architecture and today’s technological systems of communication. As the artists continually demonstrate, the historical monuments of our past act as reminders of periods of history that have had an immense and undeniable effect on the realities that shape our present world.
The largest artworks to date by Langlands & Bell are, the 2004 Paddington Basin Bridge, designed in association with Atelier One (structural engineers), an 8-metre high x 45-metre long white metal and glass pedestrian bridge linking Paddington station and the new Paddington Basin Development, London, with a capacity of up to 20,000 people per day; Moving World (Night & Day) (2007) — two 6 x 18-metre permanent outdoor sculptures of steel, glass, and digitally controlled neon at Heathrow Terminal 5; and China, Language of Places (2009), the 18-metre wall painting exhibited in English Lounge at Tang Contemporary Art, 798, Beijing in 2009. Their most recent exhibition, Ideas of Utopia, presented their work at Charleston, the modernist former home and studio of radical twentieth-century painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. The show presented works of art which examine attempts – knowing and unknowing – to create utopias whether domestic, religious, social or commercial. The exhibition also considers Charleston as an important place of early modernist social experimentation and questions a building’s power to unite us, separate us, protect us, and inspire thought and creativity.
Critical and Curatorial Practices in Design is a research project led by Professor Pert, and is hosted by ACAHUCH at the Melbourne School of Design, the University of Melbourne.
ACAHUCH + CCPD | Dr Bettina Schlorhaufer and Prof Alan Pert

Join Professor Alan Pert (Director, Melbourne School of Design and Member of The Australian Centre of Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage ) and Dr Bettina Schlorhaufer (Lecturer of Architectural Theory in the Arbeitsgruppe Achitekturtheorie at the Universität Innsbruck (UIBK), to showcase her research on Martin Wagner's competition "Das wachsende Haus" (The Growing House), with entries by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius', other proponents proposing similar schemes like Adolf Loos and Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky, and its relation to Ernest Fooks', his own entry to the competition "Kernhaus", and the influence these sorts of competitions had on the approach to residential architecture by graduates of the Bauhaus.
ACAHUCH + CCPD | Dr Albena Yaneva and Prof Alan Pert

Join Professor Alan Pert (Director, Melbourne School of Design and Member of The Australian Centre of Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage ) and Dr Albena Yaneva (Professor of Architectural Theory, Director of the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG), Manchester Urban Institute, University of Manchester) to discuss her forthcoming book 'Crafting History' which explores the Architectural Archive.

ACAHUCH Collaborations

ACAHUCH x MACGEORGE | Murray Fraser (Bartlett, UCL): A World of Architectural History

Public lecture: A World of Architectural History
This lecture will discuss the preparations and outcomes of the 21st Edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, in what are two entirely re-written volumes, also available online. It constitutes the most ambitious attempt to provide an overall account of architectural history in all parts of the world across the past 5,500 years. Three scholars from the University of Melbourne (Dr Amanda Achmadi, Prof Philip Goad, Prof Paul Walker) wrote chapters on Australian/Southeast Asian architectural history, and hence in part this public lecture will also be a celebration of their roles within the task.
Murray Fraser joined ACAHUCH for April of 2022, supported by the Macgeorge Bequest at the University of Melbourne.
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Murray Fraser is Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture, and Chair of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. In 2008 his book Architecture and the 'Special Relationship' won the RIBA Research Award and CICA Bruno Zevi Book Prize. He is General Editor for the 21st Edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture (2020), awarded the SAHGB’s Colvin Prize. He received the 2018 RIBA Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Education.
ACAHUCH + AIA | Victorian Architecture Awards 2022 - 'Heritage'

Join Professor Philip Goad (Co-Director of The Australian Centre of Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage and Melbourne School of Design Chair of Architecture), Peter Williams, Jury Chair for the 2022 AIA Heritage Architecture panel, David Wagner of Atelier Wagner, Peter Elliott, Founding Director of Peter Elliott Architecture and Design, Clare Cousins, Founding Director of Clare Cousins Architects, Tim Brooks, Associate at Fieldwork, Peter Malatt, Founding Director of Six Degrees, and Kate Gray, Principal and Director of Lovell Chen. Panellists will discuss their winning or nominated projects, the process the AIA takes in adjudicating these awards, and share their thoughts on current issues in heritage, conservation and renewal.
ACAHUCH + AIA | Winners of the Victorian Architecture Awards 2021 - 'Heritage'

Join Professor Philip Goad (Co-Director of The Australian Centre of Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage and Melbourne School of Design Chair of Architecture), and jurors of the AIA Heritage Architecture panel Peter Malatt (Six Degrees), Louise Goodman (FJMT Studio) and Chris Jones (Decibel Architecture) in discussion with AIA 2021 award winners in the categories of Heritage — Kerstin Thompson of KTA, Patrick Kennedy of Kennedy Nolan, Brett Nixon of NTF Architects and Williams Boag Architects. Panellists discuss their winning projects, the process the AIA takes in adjudicating these awards, and share their thoughts on current issues in heritage, conservation and renewal.
ACAHUCH + AIA | Winners of the Victorian Architecture Awards 2020 - 'Heritage' and 'Advocacy'
ACAHUCH x Open House Melbourne | Reconnecting with the past through architectural objects
The Miles Lewis Heritage Building collection is a digital resource made available via the Architectural Building and Planning Library here. The website, currently under construction, will be available soon through the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage homepage.
A team of architects have been involved in this project, they are
- Professor Miles Lewis AM FAHA , Collection creator
- Professor Hannah Lewi, ACAHUCH /MSD custodian of the digital repository
- Ben Waters (S-I Projects), 3d Scanning
- Meher Bahl (Restore Conservation Services ) Metadata and Digital Curator
- Naomi Mullumby, Architecture Building and Planning Librarian, University of Melbourne
Architecture typically uses 3D technologies to capture site and structure. The project to digitise the Miles Lewis Building Heritage collection created over 300 3D scans of historic building materials and objects. The collection tells a story of the evolution of the design, manufacturing and use of construction materials and techniques within Australian and offers insights into global influences on Australian architectural methods.
MUCH x PROV | A Cinematic Vision: The architecture of Howard Lawson

As part of Melbourne Design Week 2021, Public Record Office Victoria presents a talk by Virginia Blue (a recent MUCH graduate) on Melbourne architect Howard Lawson. Virginia’s extensive archival research, undertaken as part of her MUCH subjects including Representing and Remembering Place and MUCH Minor Thesis, has uncovered fascinating new information about the man who turned South Yarra into the Hollywood Hills with his iconic apartment complexes. The talk also highlights key architecture and planning concepts in the breadth of his work.
ACAHUCH x National Trust - Panel Discussion on Historic Preservation Theory

An online only panel discussion, this event will feature speakers from various institutional heritage programs discussing Jorge Otero-Pailos' recently published essential text 'Historic Preservation Theory'.
Jorge Otero-Pailos is an architect, artist, and theorist specializing in experimental forms of preservation, and Professor and director of Historic Preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation,Founder and editor of the journal Future Anterior, author of Architecture’s Historical Turn (University of Minnesota Press) and co-editor of Experimental Preservation (Lars Muller Publishers).
Other speakers in the panel include Cristina Garduno-Freeman (UNSW), Cameron Logan (University of Sydney), Steven Cooke (Deakin University), James Lesh (Deakin University), Stuart King (University of Melbourne), Amy Clarke (University of the Sunshine Coast) and Hannah Lewi (University of Melbourne).
ACAHUCH x AQA x HV: Victoria’s Queer History

Heritage Victoria (HV) has commissioned the Australian Queer Archives (AQA - formerly Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives ALGA) to develop a new heritage study A History of LGBTIQ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects.
It will include places of gathering, punishment, ‘treatment’, political activism, social life, recreation and health from as far back as records reveal to today. It will also include significant objects, documents, photos and collections to bring to light Victoria’s hidden queer histories. ACAHUCH academic Dr James Lesh discusses with Dr Marina Larsson (Heritage Victoria) and Dr Graham Willett (ALGA / UoM) the genesis, development and outcome of the report, and interesting findings contained within.
The report can be found here.
ACAHUCH x AURECON : Energy Efficiency and Heritage Building Resilience with Peter Cox (Carrig Intl)
Carrig International are at the forefront of research, policy and strategies for assessing the impact of our changing climate and on the energy retrofit of our existing building stock across Europe as a Climate Action. This seminar is a combination of a presentation to stimulate discussion and debate.
Topics of discussion will include:
- Climate Change & Heritage,
- Energy Efficiency in Traditional & Heritage Buildings,
- Energy Retrofit of Heritage Buildings Best Practice,
- Discussing Legislation & Regulation and;
- Sharing the Knowledge built up of the last 30 years in Europe and around the world.
Peter Cox (Presenter)
Peter has a primary degree in chemical engineering and a masters in material science and has worked in the analysis of decay of masonry, the treatment of stone and mortar in conservation of historic buildings, is the founding member of Carrig Conservation International Limited and has gained over thirty five years international experience of stone conservation in historic buildings and all types of porous building materials. Peter is an expert in Embodied and Embedded Carbon in existing buildings p since 2012 he has been President of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Energy, Sustainability & Climate Change. In 2019 Peter was elected a fellow of the RSA for services to conservation and sustainability.
Peter has been an active member of ICOMOS Ireland for many years and is both a past vice president and president of ICOMSO Ireland. Peter is Immediate Past President of the ICOMOS “International Scientific Committee on Energy & Sustainability” (ISCES) including Climate Change. Peter represented ICOMOS International on the CEN (Central European Standards Committee) Expert Technical Committee on producing a new European standard for “Energy Efficiency in Heritage Buildings”, this committee delivered its final report and it was published in late 2017. It is now EN 16883:2017Peter is a bureau member of the ICOMOS International Climate Change & Heritage Work Group and is a past member of the Work Group on the Sustainable Development Goals. Peter is also an active member of the Climate Heritage Network, a recently formed global organisation to highlight the threat of climate change. Peter is also a member of the bureau of ZNCC (Zero Net Carbon Collaborative).
Peter sits on a number of international committees, working in particular with Governments to improve legislation and policies on conservation in general and on energy efficiency in our heritage and traditional building stock. Peter is also an active member of the STBA (Sustainable Traditional Building Alliance) in Britain.Peter is also a guest and visiting lecturer to a number of universities in Ireland, United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. Peter has completed lecture tours of China, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, South America and North America lecturing on Material Conservation of 20 Century Buildings; the “Energy Efficiency of Heritage & Traditional Buildings” and on the effects of “Climate Change on our World Heritage Sites”.
Peter was most recently a member of the ICOMOS ISC 20 C work group that published the “Cadiz Document” a guide to the conservation of early 20th century concrete buildings.
AURECON are delighted to facilitate this lecture to the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage by Peter Cox as another way of supporting the University of Melbourne to achieve its Climate Change goals.
ACAHUCH x DOCOMOMO Australia | Slide Night 2023
Following many successful interations over the years, ACAHUCH teamed with DOCOMOMO Australia again to hold our a slide night for 2023 showcasing recent explorations by students and members of DOCOMOMO. Speakers include:
- Tianchen Xu —Ian McKay: Beyond the Sydney School
- Philip Goad – Cambodian modern and Vann Molyvann
- Michele Summerton and David Wixted – Dispatches from Docomomo International Conference in Valencia, Spain. Hosted in the Japanese Room, at the Melbourne School of Design (University of Melbourne)

ACAHUCH Advisory Board - Career Trajectories

Graeme Davison, Urban and Social Historian and Adviser

Graeme is a former President of the Australian Historical Association, Chairman of the Heritage Council of Victoria, a Fellow of the Australian Academies of Social Sciences and Humanities, and a prominent adviser and commentator on museums, heritage and urban policy. Graeme is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University, and author of The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne and Car Wars, and an editor of The Oxford Companion to Australian History.
Samantha Westbrooke, Conservation Architect National Trust

Samantha is a registered Architect with over 20 years of experience in the heritage industry. She has been engaged in all aspects of professional heritage architecture services and has worked in State and Local Government as well as private practice. Samantha established her own heritage architecture consultancy in Melbourne in 2010, which primarily undertakes heritage advisory work for local Government. Samantha also works for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) as their conservation architect.
Susan Balderstone, Heritage Consultant

Susan has been a member of the ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) International Scientific Committee for the Analysis and Restoration of Structures of Architectural Heritage since 1997. She was an ICOMOS Advisor on World Heritage to UNESCO (2008 – 2016). In 1996 she was appointed Adjunct Professor in Cultural Heritage at Deakin University Melbourne and was involved in setting up and teaching courses in Cultural Heritage in conjunction with her position at Heritage Victoria, where she was Assistant Director until 2005.
Bryce Raworth, Bryce Raworth Conservation & Heritage

Bryce is one of Melbourne’s most experienced heritage architecture practitioners and experts. He is Founder and Director of Bryce Raworth Conservation & Heritage is an award-winning practice with broad expertise in the planning, design and heritage fields. Having dealt with over 3500+ projects to date spanning almost 30 years, the practice has proven expertise in technical, legal and philosophical issues associated with the conservation and management of heritage places.
Peter Lovell, Lovell Chen

Peter’s enduring interest in the analysis and re-use of older buildings and sites began during his studies at Melbourne University, where he followed a Bachelor of Building degree with post-graduate research on the decay and preservation of materials. He founded Lovell Chen — originally as Allom Lovell & Associates — in 1981. The practice is now a leader in design, conservation and management associated with heritage places. Major early projects, such as the restoration of Melbourne’s mid-19th Century Windsor Hotel, were significant to Australia’s growing passion for rediscovery of its architectural heritage — a movement with which Peter is proud to be associated.
Sheridan Burke, Heritage Consultant

Sheridan’s career spans government, NGOs and the private sector, pursuing Twentieth Century heritage as her specialist field of interest. Most exciting current project is with the Getty Conservation Institute’s Keeping it Modern program delivering courses in conservation planning. Sheridan is an expert member of the Sydney Opera House Conservation Council; and its Design Advisory Panel as well as Local Planning Panels in NSW. Her voluntary contributions include serving on ICOMOS international committees for over 25 years. She has just completed a stint as Deputy Chair of the NSW Heritage Council and chair of the State Heritage Register Committee.
Careers Trajectories with the Advisory Board - Q&A

Following on from a discussion with ACAHUCH Advisory Board members around the direction of their careers, we opened up the presentation to questions from the audience, a collection of academics, students, and community members, hosted by Masters of Urban and Cultural Heritage coordinator, Dr Stuart King.

Fabrications 32.01 - Festschrift for Prof. Harriet Edquist

On Friday 25 June 2021, members of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) met online to discuss papers being prepared for a special issue of Fabrications (Vol. 32. No. 1) ‘Looking inside design: crossing and connecting the disciplinary boundaries of architecture, design, and exhibition.’ Fabrications is the refereed journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ). Established in 1989, it is devoted to scholarly publication in the field of architectural history. It is published 3 times per year, and this issue will be published in January 2022.

Session One
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- Sarah Teasley
  Architects, curators and designers in postwar Tokyo
- Michaela Prunotto
  Lina Bo Bardi in dialogue with Frida Escobedo: A Spontaneous Entanglement
- Kate Rhodes
  Methods and motives for curating architecture
Session Two
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- Hélène Frichot
  What do Women do to Architectural Discourse?
- Hannah Lewi
  What would Malraux make?
Session Three
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- AnnMarie Brennan
  ‘From the city to the spoon”: Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Pioneer of Postwar Italian Design
- Kirsty Volz
  Architect and Ceramist: Nell McCredie’s Epping Pottery Studio
- Rebecca Hawcroft
  Folk traditions: re-examining Hungarian émigré modernist designers
- Catriona Quinn
  Re-evaluating post-war interior design practices: Noel Coulson and his clients, 1948-1965
Session Four
- Manu Sobti and Peter Scriver
  Personal Journey or Tectonic Practice: Thick Descriptions of ‘Curated’ Residential Interiors by 4 Indian Architects
- Stuart King
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- Catherine Moriarty
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- Harriet Edquist
  Concluding Remarks

Distinguished international scholars in the field of architectural history will visit the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning and deliver a public lecture as part of a new Fellowship created in recognition of renowned architectural historian Professor Miles Lewis AM. The Miles Lewis Fellowship has been made possible by the generous support of the Vera Moore Foundation.

The Miles Lewis Fellowship will support in perpetuity a series of annual or biennial fellowships for visiting scholars or practitioners in a field concerning architectural history, including; architectural and industrial archaeology but excluding art history, conservation, architectural theory or current architecture.

Professor Miles Lewis is an architectural historian specialising in the interaction of technology and culture – in how technical developments are accepted or modified, in the dynamics of vernacular architecture, and in the effects of environmental constraints. His research in these areas has embraced topics such as the international spread of lehmwickel, the evolution of the bark roof, prefabrication in the nineteenth century, iron lighthouses, and the prehistory of doors and locks. His book Architectura was published internationally in 2009 in five languages, uniquely for an Australian work in this field.

Lewis is an honorary life member of the Comité International d’Architecture Vernaculaire (CIAV), has been a UNESCO referee for about twenty World Heritage sites, and has delivered public or invited lectures in Al Ain, Cambridge, Chicago, Christchurch, Glasgow, Nicosia, Santiago, Tabriz, Valencia and Zagreb. About six hundred items from his collection of books on the history of building technology have been scanned and made publicly available through the Building Technology Heritage Library (USA).

Lewis was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities in 1988. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2002 for service to architectural history, heritage protection and urban planning, particularly through policy development and professional organisations, and he received the Centenary Medal in 2003 for service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of architectural history. He is an honorary life member of Australia ICOMOS, the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), and the National Trust of Australia (Victoria).

The Fellowship funds travel to and from Australia, a professorial salary for a period between three weeks and three months, and other appoved expenses. The Fellow undertakes to deliver the Miles Lewis Oration, and to engage in an agreed program of research, teaching, or other activities.

The Miles Lewis Fellowship is by invitation only, though expression of interest may be sent to Theo Blankley at theo.blankley@unimelb.edu.au. A Fellow is appointed by the Dean on advice of a Committee including representatives of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning; the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand; and the Vera Moore Foundation.

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Recipients of the Miles Lewis Fellowship

2022

Dr Alex Bremner

Hailing from Daylesford, educated at Deakin University and reading for his PhD at the University of Cambridge (Gates Scholar 2001-04), Dr Alex Bremner joined the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh in 2005.

His research specialty, history and theory of Victoria architecture, is interspersed with studies in architecture and empire, national identity and its relationship to the broader built environment, and religious architecture (particularly Anglican and Nonconformist cultures in Britain and its 19th c. colonies).

Author of Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire c.1840-70 (Yale University Press), which received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion for 2013 from the Society of Architectural Historian of Great Britain, the William M. B. Berger Prize for British Art History (2014), the Historians of British Art Book Prize (2015), and was shortlisted for the Whitfield Prize, Royal Society (2014), Alex is also a recipient of the Hawksmoor Medal (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain) and the Founders’ Award (Society of Architectural Historians, USA) for outstanding scholarship in the field of architectural history

Currently, Alex currently serves as an editor for ABE Journal (Architecture Beyond Europe) and has serves as Editorial Advisory Committee member of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2015-2019)and a Deputy Editor of Architectural History, the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (2012-2014). He is the recent recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2019-2021) to complete a monograph study of Edwardian civic and state architecture.

Dr Alex Bremner joins the Melbourne School of Design and ACAHUCH for the inaugural Miles Lewis Oration in 2022.

2023

Dr Rosemary Hill

Dr Rosemary Hill is a writer, historian and independent scholar with an interest in biography, material culture and the connections between them.

She has written two prize-winning books: God’s Architect, a life of the Gothic Revival architect, A W N Pugin and Stonehenge, a history of one of Britain’s greatest and least understood monuments. Her last book, Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter, was published in 2015. She is currently completing a study of antiquarianism in the Romantic period.

She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of Antiquaries, a member of English Heritage's Blue Plaques Panel, a trustee of the Pugin Society and a Quondam fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Dr Rosemary Hill will be the Miles Lewis Fellow for 2023.

The Miles Lewis Fellowship has been made possible by the generous support of the Vera Moore Foundation, in recognition of the esteemed career of Professor Miles Lewis AM.

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Over the last five years, ACAHUCH has hosted a series of Exhbitions, showcasing a variety of materials related to urban and cultural heritage and architectural history.

Excavating Modernism : Exhibition

New Horizons : Exhibition

The Endless Interior : Exhibition

Over the last five years, ACAHUCH has hosted a series of Symposia, drawing a diverse selection of international and national speakers, keynotes, participants and audiences.

DigitalGLAM Symposium

Haunting Memory and Place: 2017 ACAHUCH Symposium

Dubious Heritage: Re-thinking the modern, industrial and the everyday

Hungry Town: 2019 Labour Day Symposium

After-Life: the digital future of visual history archives

Navigating Encounters and Exchanges: Intercolonial trade, industry and labour mobility in Asia Pacific, 1800s – 1950s

Parklife: Heritage and Place in Parkville

Citizen Heritage: Digital and Community-based Histories of Place

Designing Australian Schools: A Spatial History of Innovation, Pedagogy and Social Change

Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture

Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond Transforming Education Through Art, Design and Architecture

Making Landscape Architecture in Australia

Migration Cultural Diversity and Television

The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites

Australia Modern Architecture, Landscape & Design 1925–1975

Animating the Archive

Architecture and Industry: The migrant contribution to nation-building

Bauhaus Australia

Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities

Architecture and the Modern Hospital Nosokomeion to Hygeia

Rethinking Modern Asia-Pacific Architectures: New Aesthetic Pedagogies International Workshop

People-Centred Methodologies for Heritage Conservation Exploring Emotional Attachments to Historic Urban Places

Robin Boyd: Late Works

ADAPT: empowering adaptive reuse in historic precincts

Locating Giurgola: From Philadelphia School to Global Practice

Recent Publications

Back to the Past: future challenges for better, safer, building design and construction

From exigency to civic pride: the development of early Australian hospitals

The theoretical inapplicability of regionalism to analysing architectural aspects of Islamic shrines in Iran in the last two centuries

Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific, 1780-1914

Capturing a Cabinet of Curiosities: 3D Scanning a Building Heritage Collection

NUCLEUS meets the Minimum: Ernest Fooks, the small house and the flat in post-war Melbourne

Advertising “the East": Encounters with the Urban and the Exotic in Late Colonial Asia Pacific

Perspecta 9/10 and the Emergence of a Postmodern American Architecture

Travel á la Mode: Australian Architects and the Changing Nature of the International Tour

The work of design and the design of work: Olivetti and the political economy of its early computers.This item is a favourite

Robin Boyd and the Vernacular

Shifting health paradigms and infrastructure in Australia in the 20th Century

The four pillars: the architecture of the public school in Australia 1835-1885

The Labyrinth as immersive multimedia environment: Marshall McLuhan at Expo 67

Telling Transnational Histories of Women in Architecture, 1960–2015

Measure, Modulation and Metadesign: NC Fabrication in Industrial Design and Architecture

Teaching Memory: Digital Interpretation at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne

Graduate Research Papers and Theses

The untold story of modernism: a critical analysis of the post war church in Victoria, Australia, 1950-1970.

At the intersection of heritage preservation, urban transformation, and everyday life in the twentieth-century Australian city

Queering Heritage: How can Informal Collections be Safeguarded for Enriching Community Heritage?

The architecture of Newman College, 1915-18: the office of Walter Burley Griffin

Boom Mannerism: The Architectural Practice of Gerard Wight and William Lucas from 1885 to 1894

Ballarat’s Pride: Leading Architects from 1857-1895

The cultural significance of wood fired Scotch ovens and the poetics of olfaction as a preservation strategy for bakeries in Victoria

Making Civic Space: A Comparative Study of Civic Space Design in the Contemporary Settler Societies of Australia and New Zealand

Depicting Boom Urbanism: A critical investigation of Kalgoorlie and Boulder, Western Australia, 1893-1903

Values of the Thai architecture from the last period of the absolute monarchy (1925 – 1932)

Howard R Lawson: the architect who built

Melbourne flats: Marne Street, South Yarra: a micro case study

A path for the conservation of the Old City of Tripoli

Nomination of Dheisheh Camp of Palestine: potential implications towards heritage practises and border thinking

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