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The Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage provides an international perspective on research and teaching in architectural history and heritage with a particular emphasis on Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

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Co-directors

  • Professor Hannah Lewi
  • Professor Philip Goad
  • Professor Julie Willis

Academic Staff

  • Dr Amanda Achmadi
    Dr Amanda Achmadi, Melbourne School of Design
  • Dr AnnMarie Brennan
    Dr AnnMarie Brennan, Melbourne School of Design
  • Karen Burns
    Dr Karen Burns, Melbourne School of Design
  • Qinghua Guo
    Professor Qinghua Guo, Melbourne School of Design
  • Associate Professor Alison Inglis
    Associate Professor Alison Inglis, Faculty of Arts
  • Dr Andrew Jamieson
    Dr Andrew Jamieson, Faculty of Arts
  • Gini Lee
    Professor Gini Lee, Melbourne School of Design
  • Stuart King
    Stuart King, Melbourne School of Design
  • Dr Susan Lowish
    Dr Susan Lowish, Faculty of Arts
  • Dr Giorgio Marfella
    Dr Giorgio Marfella, Melbourne School of Design
  • Dr Kate MacNeill
    Dr Kate MacNeill, Faculty of Arts
  • Dr David Nichols
    Dr David Nichols, Melbourne School of Design
  • Associate Professor Anoma Pieris
    Associate Professor Anoma Pieris, Melbourne School of Design
  • Dr Alberto Pugnale
    Dr Alberto Pugnale, Melbourne School of Design
  • Associate Professor Andrew Saniga
    Associate Professor Andrew Saniga, Melbourne School of Design
  • Professor Paul Walker
    Professor Paul Walker, Melbourne School of Design
  • Professor Robyn Sloggett
    Professor Robyn Sloggett, Faculty of Arts
  • Dr Sara Wills
    Dr Sara Wills, Faculty of Arts

Post-Doctoral Researchers

  • Christina Garduno Freeman
    Dr Cristina Garduño Freeman
  • Kyle Harvey
    Dr Kyle Harvey
  • Katti Williams
    Dr Katti Williams
  • Macarena de la Vega de Leon
    Dr Macarena de la Vega de Leon
  • Soon-Tzu Speechley
    Dr Soon-Tzu Speechley

  • Advisory Board

  • Graeme Davison
    Graeme Davison
  • Susan Balderstone
    Susan Balderstone
  • Sheridan Burke
    Sheridan Burke
  • Harriet Edquist
    Harriet Edquist
  • Louise Honman
    Louise Honman
  • Peter Lovell
    Peter Lovell
  • Bryce Raworth
    Bryce Raworth
  • Rohan Storey
    Rohan Storey
  • Deborah Tout-Smith
    Deborah Tout-Smith
  • Samantha Westbrooke
    Samantha Westbrooke

HDR students

NameTopicSupervisors
Allan WillinghamThe Tennis Court: An Architectural HistoryPhilip Goad
Ammon BeyerleParticipation in Architecture : Agonism in PracticeKaren Burns
Andrew MurrayThe Influence of British Émigré Architects on Western Australian Architecture and Planning, 1945-1975Hannah Lewi and Phillip Goad
Anneke Prins  Actualising the Virtual: Re-engaging the Sensing Body through the Manipulation of AtmospheresPaul Walker
Annette WarnerSystems of performng beauty: the aesthetic agency of Gordon Ford's natural gardenGini Lee
Anthony WormFree and Architecture and GoffPaul Walker
Astrid Andrea Ortega EsquivelManaging urban and landscape heritage through the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach: the case study of Valparaíso, ChileAnna Hurlimann
Claire MillerHow does society become complicit in its own oppression through the mechanism of spatialised fear and politics?AnnMarie Brennan and David Nichols
Claire O'BoyleBuildings for Curious Minds: An Investigation of Architecture and Design Practices for the Finnish Kindergarten SettingHannah Lewi
Elizabeth MusgraveJohn Dalton: Architect of Sunlight, Shade and ShadowPhillip Goad
Fiona JohnsonA Comparative Study of Civic Space Design in the Contemporary Settler Societies of Australia and New ZealandJillian 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 CastlesThe Impact of Building Standards on Contemporary ConstructionGiorgio Marfella
Jonathan LovellDogma to Data: Ritual and Transcendental Experiences in immersive Multimedia EnvironmentsAnnMarie Brennan
Kristal BuckleyUnderstanding Global Heritage: Key IssuesKate Darian Smith and Philip Goad
Libby RichardsonOrnament and Surface Decoration in Contemporary Melbourne ArchitectureHannah 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 FajlThe Fate of Ornament in Early Twentieth Century ArchitectureHannah Lewi and Karen Burns
Nesha NaidooParks, playgrounds, promenades, pageants and piazzas: the changing ideas of designed public spaces in Melbourne 1850–2000Richard Gillespie and Julie Willis
Philip GoldswainPhotographic Cities: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 1893-1917Hannah Lewi and Andrew Saniga
Rebecca ClementsSustainable and Policies: Japanese Vicinity ParkingDavid Nichols
Ruth ReddenHeritage and sustainability: how to ensure historic buildings are culturally, environmentally and economically sustainable.Hannah Lewi and Philip Goad
Scott WoodsFace: An Aesthetico-Political Paradigm in American Architectural Theory 1984-2009Paul Walker and Phillip Goad
Sharon ShaferThe Utopian Paradox of High-Rise Housing in Australia between 1945-2010Peter Raisbeck and Julie Willis
Simona CastricumWhat if Safety became Permanent? Gender Nonconforming Experiences of Architecture - Space and PracticeKaren Burns
Tania DavidgeEncountering ArchitectureKaren Burns
Timothy MooreThe instruments of transitional architecture: locating the value of short-term temporary projects in long-term urban frameworksKaren Burns
Victoria KolankiewiczA Social History of Quarrying in MelbourneDavid Nichols
Yinrui XieArchitecture as a Sign System: A Semiotic Study of China's Christian UniversitiesPaul Walker and Julie Willis

Upcoming Events

  • 2 February 202330 June 2023
    EXHIBITION: Well Built: the work of Simmie and Co, hosted by RHSV
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  • 27 February 20233 April 2023
    EXHIBITION: New Horizons : Through Darkness comes Light
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  • Wednesday 26 April 2023 12pm - 1:30pm
    PANEL: ACAHUCH x National Trust Heritage Festival presents Jorge Otero-Pailos (CU) on 'Historic Preservation Theory'
    Event

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Past events

  • Wednesday 29 March 2023 12:30pm - 2pm
    SEMINAR: ACAHUCH x AURECON x Peter Cox - Improving Energy Efficiency and Heritage Building Resilience
    Event
  • Tuesday 28 March 2023 7:30pm - 9pm
    PANEL: Edquist, Goad and Pert on Post-War Emigres and the Interior in Victoria
    NEW HORIZONS EXHIBITION LOGO
    Event
  • Wednesday 22 March 2023 6pm - 8pm
    PANEL: ACAHUCH x ICOMOS GA 2023 x Lovell Chen : Heritage Changes - or does it?
    Event
  • Tuesday 21 March 2023 12pm - 1pm
    FLOOR TALK: Warren Andersen on The Studio of Iwanoff
    NEW HORIZONS EXHIBITION LOGO
    Event
  • Thursday 2 March 2023 6pm - 8pm
    EXHIBITION LAUNCH: New Horizons : Through Darkness comes Light
    NEW HORIZONS EXHIBITION LOGO
    Event
  • 16 November 202210 February 2023
    EXHIBITION: Immigrant Networks at CO-AS-IT
    Event
  • Thursday 1 December 2022 7am - 8pm
    TALK: DOCOMOMO Australia presens John Allan's new book 'Revaluing Modern Architecture: Changing Conservation Culture'
    Event
  • Thursday 24 November 2022 1:30am - 2:30am
    LECTURE: Macarena de la Vega de Leon discusses 'The Historiography of Global in Architecture' at IUdL
    Event
  • 15 November 202217 November 2022
    CONFERENCE:'Glass: Vision, Reflection, Imagination'
    Event
  • Friday 4 November 2022 9am - 5pm
    ACAHUCH Symposium : Parklife 2022
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    Event
  • 28 October 202229 October 2022
    CONFERENCE: CAVA presents Spatio-temporal Tales: Design Pedagogies of Digital Narrative Practices
    Event
  • 22 October 202223 October 2022
    SYMPOSIUM: Dumbarton Oaks presents 'Changing Climates - Changing histories: Perspectives from the Humanities'
    Event
  • Friday 21 October 2022 2pm - 5pm
    TALK: SAHGB presents Afghanistan: Architectural Heritage and Global Politics
    Event
  • Friday 21 October 2022 4am - 11am
    CONFERENCE: SACRPH present their 19th National Conference on Planning History
    Event
  • Thursday 20 October 2022 5:30pm - 7:30pm
    TALK: Engineering Heritage Victoria and the RHSV - Dr Giorgio Marfella presents 'Seeds of Concrete Progress'
    Event
  • Wednesday 21 September 2022 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    TALK: MSD x ACAHUCH presents Jorge Otero-Pailos (CU) on 'The Ethics of Dust'
    Event
  • Thursday 8 September 2022 7:15pm - 8:45pm
    TALK: ACAHUCH + CCPD: Langlands & Bell - Ideas of Utopia
    Event
  • Wednesday 7 September 2022 12:30pm - 2pm
    PANEL : ACAHUCH + AIA 2022 Awards for ‘Heritage’ Discussion Panel
    Event
  • 19 August 202231 August 2022
    EXHIBITION: RBF presents Bill Lucas: Architect Utopian
    Event
  • Thursday 25 August 2022 6pm - 7:30pm
    LAUNCH: Locating Giurgola - a new ARC project with ACAHUCH members
    Event
  • Wednesday 24 August 2022 6:30pm - 8:30pm
    TALK: RBF presents A New History of the Australian Heritage Movement: In Conversation
    Event
  • Friday 5 August 2022 10am - 11am
    PUBLIC LECTURE: MSD presents 'When Lines Became Objects' with Jordan Kauffman
    Headshot of Jordan Kauffman
    Event
  • Thursday 14 July 2022 6pm - 7:30pm
    WEBINAR: Polish Aid to Ukrainian Museums & National Heritage amid Russia's Invasion
    Ukrainian Museum Interior
    Event
  • Wednesday 13 July 2022 6pm - 8pm
    TALK : Women, Writing, Design – Art & Design Salon
    Image of Kartell COmponibili containers
    Event
  • Sunday 10 July 2022 10:30am - 3:30pm
    SYMPOSIUM: Robin Boyd Foundation - Design Matters on Campus
    Event
  • Thursday 7 July 2022 5:30pm - 7pm
    BOOK LAUNCH : Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire - Sarah Kirby
    Book Cover Web Banne
    Event
  • Thursday 30 June 2022 5:30pm - 7pm
    TALK : Royal Heritage Society of Victoria presents 'The Rise and Fall of the Iron Bridge' by Miles Lewis
    Miles Lewis Headshot
    Event
  • Thursday 16 June 2022 2pm - 2pm
    Launch: Public Records Office of Victoria launches 'Queer Stories from the Archives'
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    Launch
  • Friday 27 May 2022 6pm - 9pm
    Exhibition: RETAIN REPAIR REINVEST Ascot Vale Estate
    Image of Ascot Vale Estate
    Event
  • Thursday 26 May 2022 6:30pm - 7:45pm
    Inaugural Miles Lewis Oration 2022 - Prof Alex Bremner (U.Edinburgh)
    Event
  • Wednesday 27 April 2022 9am - 12:30pm
    SYMPOSIUM : Australasia and the Global Turn in Architectural History
    Banister Fletcher Book Cover
    Symposium
  • Tuesday 26 April 2022 12pm - 1:15pm
    ACAHUCH International : Eva Branscome (UCL) on Hans Hollein's 1968 Milan Triennale Exhibition
    Hans Hollein Headshot
    Lecture
  • 19 April 202220 April 2022
    WEBINAR: ICOMOS Cultural Heritage in the challenge of Climate Change
    After the Damages header image
    Event
  • Monday 11 April 2022 6pm - 7:15pm
    Murray Fraser (Bartlett, UCL) presents A World of Architectural History
    Banister Fletcher Book Cover
    Lecture
  • Wednesday 23 February 2022 12:30pm - 1:15pm
    ACAHUCH MicroCerts: Join our Information Sessions
    ACAHUCH MMC Banner
    Event
  • Tuesday 30 November 2021
    CfP : Intangible Heritage - University of Kent
    Event
  • 24 November 202126 November 2021
    ACAHUCH Symposium 2021: Navigating Encounters and Exchanges
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    Symposium
  • Wednesday 24 November 2021 6:30pm - 8pm
    KEYNOTE : ACAHUCH Symposium 2021: Adrian Vickers and Julia Martinez
    Symposium 2021 Banner Image
    Symposium
  • Saturday 20 November 2021 2pm - 5pm
    SYMPOSIUM : Australia ICOMOS: Heritage Pathways 2021
    ICOMOS Heritage Pathways Banner
    Event
  • Friday 22 October 2021 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Parlour LAB 11: Rethinking Heritage, with Amanda Achmadi and Kelly Greenop + Chris Landorf
    Event
  • Wednesday 29 September 2021 12:30pm - 2pm
    Event : ACAHUCH + AIA 2021 Awards for ‘Heritage’ Discussion Panel
    AIA 2021 Award Recipients Banner
    Event
  • Wednesday 15 September 2021 6pm - 7:30pm
    Event: The Australian Dark Sky Alliance presents The Cultural Value of the Night Sky
    Picture of Uluru with light sculpture in foreground
    Event
  • Saturday 4 September 2021 9:15am - 5:30pm
    Automotive Historians Australia hosts 5th Annual Conference on 'The Future of Automotive Collections & Archives in Australia'
    Event
  • Tuesday 24 August 2021 8pm - 9:15pm
    CCPD x ACAHUCH : Miles Glendenning, U. Edinburgh, on Mass Housing
    Event
  • Saturday 21 August 2021 6am - 7:30am
    Authors on Architecture: Growing up Modern presented by SAH Southern Californian Chapter
    Image of Modernist House interior
    Event
  • Thursday 5 August 2021 5:30pm - 7pm
    Portable Buildings in Australia with Miles Lewis, presented by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria
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    Event
  • Tuesday 27 July 2021 1pm - 1pm
    ACAHUCH + OPEN HOUSE MELBOURNE - An exploration into the Miles Lewis Building Heritage Collection
    Miles Lewis Archive Process 2
    Event
  • Wednesday 16 June 2021 5:30pm - 7pm
    DOCOMOMO Australia + ACAHUCH : Heritage and activism in Modern sites and neighbourhoods
    Event
  • Wednesday 16 June 2021 8:30am - 10am
    Panel: AIA presents the Architecture in Research Forum: The Contemporary Architectural Archive and Digital Files
    Archive Image
    Event
  • Thursday 22 April 2021 7pm - 8pm
    Our Heritage for the Future | PHA (Vic & Tas) and the National Trust
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    Event
  • 25 March 20211 April 2021
    EXHIBITION: Fresh Eyes by the Robin Boyd Foundation
    Kate Ballis Photograph
    Exhibition
  • Monday 1 March 2021 6:30pm - 7:30pm
    Launch: A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects
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    Launch
  • Friday 26 February 2021 7am - 8:15am
    SAH Method Acts Workshops launch 2021
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    Event
  • Friday 11 December 2020 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Melbourne Conversations: Postwar Architecture with Hannah Lewi
    350 Collins Street Melbourne Sievers
    Event
  • Thursday 3 December 2020 1am - 2:30am
    ICAM launches Digital Architectural Archive Collections:Expanding Practices & Future Uses
    ICAM Banner
    Event
  • Wednesday 2 December 2020 1pm - 2pm
    ACAHUCH + City of Melbourne presents the Hoddle Grid Heritage Review
    City of Melbourne Heritage Review Banner
    Event
  • Wednesday 11 November 2020 12pm - 1pm
    Book Preview – Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: Art, Architecture and Urbanism
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    Event
  • Monday 26 October 2020 7pm - 8:30pm
    ACAHUCH International: Pippo Ciorra (MAXXI) on Aldo Rossi: Exhibitions
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    Event
  • Wednesday 21 October 2020 12:30pm - 1:15pm
    ACAHUCH Drop-In Session: Urban and Cultural Heritage MicroCerts
    ACAHUCH MMC Banner
    Event
  • Tuesday 13 October 2020 3am - 4:30am
    Seminar: A Very Long Journey: Architecture Between Britain and Western Australia with Andrew Murray
    Event
  • Monday 12 October 2020 12pm - 1pm
    Parlour Lab 01: Women in Architecture: Archives, Data, Visibility
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    Event
  • 1 October 202010 October 2020
    2020 ICOMOS General Assembly 'Shared Culture, Shared Heritage, Shared Responsibility'
    ICOMOS GA Header Image
    Event
  • Thursday 1 October 2020 6pm - 7pm
    ACAHUCH + CCPD: Dr Bettina Schlorhaufer and Prof Alan Pert
    ACAHUCH CCPD UIBK Banner
    Event
  • Friday 25 September 2020 6pm - 7pm
    ACAHUCH + CCPD: Dr Albena Yaneva and Prof Alan Pert
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    Event
  • Tuesday 15 September 2020 12:30pm - 2pm
    ACAHUCH + AIA 2020 Awards for ‘Heritage’ and 'Advocacy’ Discussion Panel
    ACAHUCH AIA Capitol Theatre
    Event
  • Tuesday 8 September 2020 4pm - 5:30pm
    Panel: Learnings from Australia's Post-War Apartment Buildings
    Event
  • Wednesday 2 September 2020 1pm - 2pm
    In Conversation | The Value of Place: Authentic & Local - Urbis with ACAHUCH post-doc Dr James Lesh
    Urbis Placemaking People
    Event
  • 8 July 202025 July 2020
    Robin Boyd Foundation Virtual Open Houses launches for 2020
    Robin Boyd Foundation Open House 2020 Projects
    Event
  • 22 July 202024 July 2020
    Computational Design and the Future of Architecture Seminar : ITB Indonesia
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    Event
  • Friday 17 July 2020 8pm - 9pm
    Cambridge University Press summer seminar series : Urban Histories with Dr James Lesh
    Event
  • Monday 6 July 2020 10:30am - 5:30pm
    ACAHUCH SAHANZ PhD Colloquium 2020
    Event
  • Wednesday 27 May 2020 5:30pm - 7pm
    ACAHUCH hosts seminar with ALGA and Heritage Victoria on Victoria's Queer Heritage
    Seminar
  • Monday 9 March 2020 5pm - 7pm
    Book Launch: “New Digital Practices in GLAM and Heritage”
    Book Launch
  • Monday 9 March 2020 9am - 5pm
    After-Life: the digital future of visual history archives
    Symposium
  • Monday 9 March 2020 1pm - 2pm
    ACAHUCH Symposium 2020: Keynote Lecture Martien de Vletter
    Keynote
  • Wednesday 26 February 2020 6:30pm - 8pm
    Talk – Australia Modern: The Book
    Book Launch
  • 22 July 201922 August 2019
    Australia Modern: from the iconic to the everyday
    Event
  • Saturday 27 July 2019 2pm - 3pm
    The pervasive presence of modernism: Australia Modern floor talk
    Event
  • Thursday 27 June 2019 5:45pm - 7:30pm
    The Burra Charter turns 40
    Event
  • Thursday 6 June 2019 4pm - 5pm
    Modern Architecture and the Open Society: Work and Ideas of Jaap Bakema (1914-1981)
    1964 Broeba Pampus
    Event
  • Friday 26 April 2019 3pm - 4pm
    Curating the Paradoxical Image in Networked Culture: Digital Programme of The Photographers' Gallery (2012-2019)
    Event
  • Thursday 11 April 2019 6:30pm - 8pm
    Book Launch: Architecture and the Modern Hospital
    Book Launch
  • Monday 11 March 2019 9:15am - 6:30pm
    Hungry Town: 2019 Labour Day Symposium
    Symposium
  • Friday 23 November 2018 11:45am - 7pm
    Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities. Practitioner Symposium 2018
    Event
  • Wednesday 24 October 2018 6pm - 8pm
    Docomomo Victoria Slide Night and Book Launch
    Docomomo Victoria Slide Night and Book Launch
    Event
  • Tuesday 9 October 2018 6pm - 8pm
    PastPort Yarra
    Pastport Yarra
    Event
  • Wednesday 19 September 2018 1pm - 2pm
    Re-photography as a tool for citizen heritage
    Re-photography as a tool for citizen heritage
    Event
  • 24 August 2018
    Constructing Religious Territories: Community, Identity and Agency in Australia’s Modern Religious Architecture
    Event
  • 11 August 201812 August 2018
    Autopia: The Car and the Modern City
    Event
  • Monday 12 March 2018 11:30am - 6:30pm
    Dubious Heritage: Re-thinking the modern, industrial and the everyday
    Symposium
  • Monday 12 March 2018 5:30pm - 6:30pm
    Book launch: Participatory Culture and the Social Value of an Architectural icon
    Event
  • 21 September 201722 September 2017
    Haunting Memory and Place: 2017 ACAHUCH Symposium
    Event
  • Friday 22 September 2017 11:30am - 12:30pm
    Lost Futures: Fascismo Abbandonato
    Event
  • Thursday 21 September 2017 6pm - 7:30pm
    Haunting, Memory and Place: An Indigenous Perspective
    Event
  • Thursday 21 September 2017 12pm - 1pm
    Maria Tumarkin: Twenty years of thinking about traumascapes
    Event
  • Wednesday 20 September 2017 5:30pm - 6:30pm
    Megalomania
    Event
  • Tuesday 5 September 2017 5pm - 6:30pm
    Launch of ACAHUCH Research Centre
    Event
  • Wednesday 14 June 2017 12:30pm - 2:30pm
    Community Green: Rediscovering the Garden Suburb Tradition of Local Open Space
    Event
  • Wednesday 17 May 2017 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    ACAHUCH Lunchtime Seminar: Among Buildings
    Among Buildings seminar
    Event
  • Wednesday 19 April 2017 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    ICOMOS International Day for Monuments and Sites - Forgotten Heritage
    Forgotten Heritage
    Event
  • Thursday 16 March 2017 6:30pm - 9pm
    Destruction of Memory: The War Against Culture, And The Battle to Save It
    The Destruction of Memory - Palmyra
    Event
  • Thursday 17 November 2016 1pm - 2pm
    A New Town is Born: The Evolution of Australian Retail Merchandising in the 1950s and 1960s
    A New Town is Born - drawing of Chadstone
    Event
  • Thursday 3 November 2016 1pm - 2pm
    A Trojan Horse? Popular Participation and the ‘Grand Narrative’ of Conservation in Europe and America
    The Conservation Movement: a History of Architectural Preservation book cover
    Event
  • Wednesday 2 November 2016 6pm - 7pm
    Modernist Mass Housing – Towards a Global Historical Overview
    Red Road estate under construction, Glasgow, Scotland, 1966
    Event
  • Monday 29 August 2016 9:30am - 7pm
    Hidden Traces of Shared History: Rethinking Asia Pacific through 19th and early 20th century photographs
    Hidden Traces of Shared History: Rethinking Asia Pacific through 19th and early 20th century photographs
    Event
  • 14 July 201615 July 2016
    DigitalGLAM Symposium
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    Event
  • 6 July 20169 July 2016
    SAHANZ 2016
    SAHANZ 2016 Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
    Event
  • 4 July 20165 July 2016
    Spaces in transition: globalisation, transnationalism and urban change in the Asia-Pacific
    Spaces in Transition Symposium
    Event
  • 4 July 20165 July 2016
    Rethinking Modern Asia-Pacific Architectures
    Rethinking Modern Asia-Pacific Architectures
    Event
  • Thursday 21 April 2016 2am - 2pm
    ICOMOS International Day for Monuments and Sites: Heritage of Sport
    1956 Melbourne Olympics poster
    Event

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.

Find out more

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

    Exhibition materials, including archival drawings, documentation, interviews, print media, 3D models and film explore the narratives of Jewish émigré creatives in Melbourne's South-Eastern suburbs.

  • New Horizons : Exhibition

    Exhibition materials, including archival drawings, documentation, interviews, print media, 3D models and film explore the narratives of émigré creatives who migrated to Australia in the 40s, 50s, and 60s

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

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.

  • Citizen Heritage: Digital and Community-based Histories of Place

    This project explores new digital technologies to enhance the visibility of lesser-known precincts of urban heritage.

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

    Designing Australia’s Schools is an historical, cross disciplinary study of innovations in the design of Australian primary and secondary schools across the twentieth century.

  • Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture

    The first comprehensive reference text to be published on Australian architecture. Unique in its breadth and depth, and revealing new knowledge on architects, their buildings and the ways they designed and built them.

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

    Fifteen thematic essays and twenty individual case studies bring to light a tremendous amount of new archival material in order to show how these innovative educators, exiled from Nazism, introduced Bauhaus ideas and models to a new world.

  • Making Landscape Architecture in Australia

    This book on the history of landscape architecture in Australia, the first of its kind, profiles the people who have shaped the nation's landscape.

  • Migration Cultural Diversity and Television

    This project documents the evolving history of popular television and its contribution to national discussions about migration, cultural diversity and citizenship across six decades. Now hosted at UTAS.

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

    The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites presents a fascinating picture of the ways in which today's cultural institutions are undergoing a transformation through innovative applications of digital technology.

  • Australia Modern Architecture, Landscape & Design 1925–1975

    The essential text on Australian modernism, featuring 100 significant site examples by Australia’s most revered architects, rich archival imagery and expert essays exploring how modernism has shaped Australian society.

  • Animating the Archive

    The aim of this project is one of outreach to and engagement with cultural organisations to probe the future of innovative uptake of mobile and media technology.

  • Architecture and Industry: The migrant contribution to nation-building

    Linking immigrant social histories to industrialisation through an explicitly spatial analysis, this project explores the post-war architectural, rural and industrial landscapes of Australia as shaped by the labour of displaced persons.

  • Bauhaus Australia

    Bauhaus Australia: Émigrés, Refugees and the Modernist Transformation of Education in Art, Architecture, and Design, 1930 to 1970

  • Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities

    The commitment to the environmental quality of university campuses is central to the modern contemporary tertiary experience and represents a growing multi-million dollar public investment in higher education infrastructure.

  • Architecture and the Modern Hospital Nosokomeion to Hygeia

    This book explores the rapid evolution of hospital design in the twentieth century, analysing the ways in which architects and other specialists reimagined the modern hospital. It examines how the vast expansion of medical institutions over the course of the century was enabled by new approaches to architectural design and it highlights the emerging political conviction that physical health would become the cornerstone of human welfare.

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

    A forum for critical reflection on the histories, pedagogies and practices of architecture in the Asia-Pacific.

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

    This book presents methodological approaches that can help explore the ways in which people develop emotional attachments to historic urban places.

  • Robin Boyd: Late Works

    Robin Boyd: Late Works unveils the urban and public architectural projects designed by Robin Boyd, one of Australia’s most iconic mid-century modernists, in the final decade before his untimely death in 1971.

  • ADAPT: empowering adaptive reuse in historic precincts

    The project will showcase design and practice-based approaches to the sustainable, adaptive reuse of historic places in Australia. Building on our research, interviews will be conducted with leading Australian architects and heritage practitioners.

  • Locating Giurgola: From Philadelphia School to Global Practice

    This research focuses on the life and work of Italo-American architect Romaldo Giurgola, situating his work in its architectural, historical and biographical contexts across the second half of the twentieth century.

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

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

    Giorgio Marfella & Jeanette Barbaro, 2019 | This article looks at the evolution of the built environment in Melbourne, and considers the origins and appropriateness of the current system of building regulation in Australia

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

    Julie Willis, 2021 | This chapter examines the establishment and development of colonial hospitals in the Australian colonies from 1788 to 1850. It focuses on the conundrum that, while these hospitals were evidently valued highly in these settlements, they suffered from manifestly inadequate provisioning, as if the availability of a hospital was more important than its capacity to function.

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

    Faramarz Pour Hassan, Miles Lewis, Qinghua Guo, 2013 | This study examines the ways in which Western Orientalism, even in regionalist language, has failed to present a comprehensive image in analysing architectural works in developing countries, like Iran, in which internationalism did not change every aspect of architectural forms.

  • Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific, 1780-1914

    Paul Walker & Amanda Achmadi, 2019 | Examining the architecture of Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific between 1780-1915, this chapter contributes to the chronicling of Sir Banister Fletcher's Global History of Architecture. This tome, containing 2,200 photographs, documenting thousands of major buildings from around the world, is arranged in 102 chapters for expedited referencing.

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

    Naomi Mullumby & Meher Bahl, 2021 | The use of 3D technologies in architectural research has long centred on capturing building sites and structures, however at the University of Melbourne a unique collection of heritage building materials has been the focus of an ambitious 3D scanning project.

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

    Philip Goad, 2019 | An exploratory article for the RMIT Design Archive journal examining the interest in the minimum house demonstrated by Viennese émigré Ernest Fooks, and how these interests translated to the Melbourne context.

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

    Paul Walker & Amanda Achmadi, 2019 | Following the development of shipping routes from the east coast of Australia to Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth century, innovative architectural solutions to infrastructure surrounding this trade occurred. In concurrence, promotion of tourism by shipping companies advertising exotic and luxurious tourism destinations highlighted remote landscapes, indigenous architecture, and the local peoples represented a divergent reality of the colonial cities that visitors would have inevitably visited.

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

    AnnMarie Brennan, 2016 | Beginning with an overview of Perspecta 9/10, this paper will examine how the medium of the student-edited architectural magazine assisted in promoting the idea of an American architecture during the mid-1960s.

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

    Julie Willis & Katti Williams, 2021 | This paper examines the changing role of travel for Australian architects prior to the Second World War. Six distinct modes of travel emerge: the grand tour; the commercial enterprise; the roaming adventure; accidental tourismthat Kilburn took through the United States saw him directly influenced; educational imperative; and finally, as a rite of passage.

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

    AnnMarie Brennan, 2019 | This essay revisits a chapter in the history of the design and production of early computers in Italy. It looks at the creation of the Olivetti Elea 9003 and the company’s manufacturing of numerically-controlled machine tools in order to examine their effect on transforming traditional modes of production. This essay illustrates the connection between the Olivetti designers and engineers who created these machines and the design of the new type of labor these new machines conjured.

  • Robin Boyd and the Vernacular

    Philip Goad, 2019 | An exploratory article for the RMIT Design Archive journal exploring Robin Boyd's rationale behind his writing and architecture, its links to the vernacular, and its influence on the single-family house.

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

    Karen Daws & Julie Willis, 2021 | One of thirty-six interdisciplinary essays analyzing the mutual relationship between historical epidemics and the built environment. The outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019 brought the effects of epidemic illness on urban life into sharp focus, exposing the vulnerabilities of the societies it ravages as much as the bodies it infects.

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

    Julie Willis, 2021 | The government school has held an integral part in the Australian idea of progressive society, a locus of community definition and pride that is the backbone of social infrastructure. Yet, it took decades from the establishment of the Australian British colonies from 1788 to establish a system of general education. The Australian school had modest beginnings, founded on the Irish National School system in the 1840s. This paper examines the architecture of Australian government schools between 1835–1885, charting the evolution of their design including the use and development of common plans, the influence of rules and regulations, and their position in a civil society.

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

    AnnMarie Brennan & Johnathon Lovell, 2020 | This article examines the Labyrinth, a multi-screen pavilion created by the National Film Board of Canada for the Montréal World Exposition in 1967. Based on archival and primary sources, our research traces the design development of the Labyrinth and interprets its significance by employing Marshall McLuhan’s concepts of visual and acoustic space.

  • Telling Transnational Histories of Women in Architecture, 1960–2015

    Karen Burns, Lori Brown, 2020 | This essay uses an emergent transnational research project — a global encyclopaedia of women in architecture — as a site for unsettling the terms, chronology, and geography of feminist histories of architecture

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

    AnnMarie Brennan, 2019 | Exploring the current relationship between architecture and industrial design is forged through the innovative use of Computer Numerical Control fabrication and the parametric procedures and software invented for its use, this article investigates the history of designing and fabricating complex, curved surfaces in industrial design and establishing transfer of technological knowledge across disciplines over a period of 40 years – the research claiming the origins of parametric architectural design can be found in the development of computationally and numerically controlled machines.

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

    Steven Cooke & Hannah Lewi, 2020 | Examining the employment of digital interpretation experiences, new regimes of bodily experience from the nexus of architecture and digital technologies, changing and evolving expectations of behaviour and engagement, and curatorial challenges in the context of war memorials, using the Shrine of Remembrance as a case study. This paper explores the benefit and influence these technologies have on active participation in the role of memory, the visitor as ‘witness’, and their ability to ‘teach memory’ and critique experience.

Graduate Research Papers and Theses

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

    Elizabeth Anne Richardson, 2020 | This thesis investigates how the church became modern after the Second World War through a critical examination of the architectural design of church buildings in Victoria, Australia, c.1950-1970, transforming the typology to one that became increasingly diverse and individualistic, as societal values towards religion, architecture, and the role of the church in society began to change.

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

    James Phillip Lesh, 2018 | A global urban history of the Australian city, an analysis of its urban and heritage places, and the preservationists who shaped those places through during the twentieth century.

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

    Dillon Webster, 2020 | This research develops a conceptual framework for contemporary queer community groups to use for the creation of a place-based digital archive, arguing that a combination of contemporary digital technologies and informal memory catalogues can be used to redefine archival and heritage practices, regulations, and legal frameworks. While virtual environments provide a technical framework for interacting with digital reproductions of space, issues of authenticity, representation, and information retrieval arise.

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

    Jeffrey John Turnbull, 2017 | This new manuscript is developed from two volumes submitted for the degree of D.Phil, 2004, amended 2005, revised 2014, and 2017 exploring the work of Walter Burley Griffin at the University of Melbourne.

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

    Jennifer Fowler, 2020 | An analysis of the Boom era firm of Wight and Lucas from 1885 to 1894, in the context of the historiography of the Boom Style and its impact on the built environment of Melbourne.

  • Ballarat’s Pride: Leading Architects from 1857-1895

    Erin Wood, 2020 | Inspired by the works of William Bramwell Withers, this thesis asserts the role of Ballarat’s architects beyond its borders, inviting a closer consideration of these architects and regional architectural practice more generally.

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

    Domenica Presa, 2020 | An investigation of how baking has changed historically in Australia, from Australian Aboriginal origins to colonial settlement, the present day, and the return to craft baking techniques, typologies and preservation through the technique of olfaction as a heritage factor.

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

    Fiona Claire Johnson, 2019 | This thesis explores the state of decolonising practice in design, examining the textual, conceptual, spatial and architectural modes of practice which together collectively ‘make’ civic space. It draws comparisons through two exemplary projects - Adelaide’s Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga and Wellington’s Waterfront.

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

    Philip David Goldswain, 2019 | This thesis considers the spaces, events and processes of boom urbanism and industrialisation in the East Goldfields of Western Australia between 1893 and 1903 through a series of written and drawn investigations,.

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

    Chaipat Ngambutsabongsophin, 2020 | This thesis used an updated, broader framework of the International Charter to value case studies of public buildings commissioned by the Thai Government in the transition period between Rama VI’s Nationalism-style (1910- 1925) and the modern architecture of the People’s Party and beyond (1932 -). Using case studies, the study contributes to filling a gap in knowledge about the hybrid style that manifested, combining traditional Thai architectural styles with Western planning and stripped Thai ornaments, initiating architecture characterised by modern functionality, durability, and pared back approaches to public program.

  • Howard R Lawson: the architect who built

    Virginia Blue, 2020 | This article, also the subject of Viriginia's MUCH Minor Thesis, explores some of the myths surrounding the early twentieth-century Victorian architect, Howard R Lawson. Known today as the eclectic architect who designed the highly dramatic Beverley Hills flats at South Yarra (c. 1935–1936), his reputation has suffered over the decades due to misinformation and a misunderstanding of events.

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

    Hong Wagg, 2021 | Following the discover of a photograph of "Mayfair" on Marne Street, South Yarra, in early 2021 whilst undertaking research on Edwin J Ruck, Wagg investigated the street in person. After finding "Mayfair" demolished, the street piqued interest in the realisation of Marne Street, South Yarra, serving as a micorcosm to the history of interwar flats in Melbourne.

  • A path for the conservation of the Old City of Tripoli

    Manal Omar Shghawi, 2021 | This thesis shows that the Old City of Tripoli's is constrained by circumstances that inevitably affected the priorities of its conservation which requires us to explore ways of expanding our notions of heritage beyond materiality.

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

    Chamathya Gunawardena, 2022 | The paper examines the Dheisheh camp to understand how it confronts this challenge by rethinking heritage and conservation through different perspectives which transcend the expectations of spectacular architecture with Outstanding Universal Value, that aids in the commodification, consumption and long-term viability through tourism revenue of specific cultural heritage sites.

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
    • Heritage Victoria (within DELWP) 
    • Aboriginal Victoria
    • Heritage Council of Victoria 
    • Parks Victoria
    • Working Heritage
  • National and International
    • Australian Government: Heritage Homepage
    • Australian Heritage Council 
    • UNESCO World Heritage Centre
    • Australian National List of Heritage Organisations
    • Blue Shield Australia
  • 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
    • Cultural Commons
    • Digitised Collections Home
    • Cross-Section Journal
    • Cross-Section Photography List
    • Architecture Building and Planning Library Glass Slides Collection
    • Architecture Building and Planning Faculty Handbooks
    • Architecture Atelier Collection
    • Smudges Journal
    • University of Melbourne Architectural Drawings - Buildings on Parkville Campus
    • University of Melbourne Library - Map Collections
    • University of Melbourne Master Plan Reports
    • University of Melbourne Archives - Architecture
    • The Miles Lewis Heritage Building Materials Collection

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

    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 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

    • 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

    • Hélène Frichot
      What do Women do to Architectural Discourse?
    • Hannah Lewi
      What would Malraux make?
  • Session Three

    • 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
      The Architectural Imagination in Colonial Tasmania
    • Catherine Moriarty
      Writing about design: Finland 1940
    • 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.

Recipients of the Miles Lewis Fellowship
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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.


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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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