Histories of architecture and the built environment

Our researchers explore the historical dimensions of the design, use and value of the built environment.

Our work spans the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific and traverses the environmental, institutional and intellectual histories of architecture by focusing on everything from labour and the professions to finance, construction, state power and First Nations protest.

Current projects concern land and colonialism; architecture, climate and race; public housing; construction histories in and beyond Australia; and figures of historiography and practice, including Romaldo Giurgola, Hugh and Eva Buhrich, Manfredo Tafuri, and Adolphe Appia among others.

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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.

The New South Wales private property frontier

Contributing to the Time-Layered Cultural Map of Australia, this pilot study explores the history of land alienation over a series of parishes in New South Wales