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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.
This life and works project is the first major systematic assessment of the architectural career of architect Romaldo Giurgola (1920-2016), the principal designer of Australian Parliament House. It will review all known archives relating to his life and works, including significant collections in North America and Australia, and it will survey the full range of his architectural projects.
The project expects to result in a new and complete assessment of Giurgola's architecture, figuring important Australian buildings into an international landscape of professional practice. The primary outcome of this project will be a large critical catalogue, presenting the full extent of his career for the first time and locating APH in that career in new terms.
Associate Professor Cameron Logan presents an introduction to Locating Giurgola at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Project team
- Cameron Logan - Associate Professor, Director, Master of Heritage Conversation
- Catherine Lassen – Senior Lecturer in Architecture
- Andrew Leach – Professor of Architecture
- Philip Goad – Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Chair of Architecture, University of Melbourne
- AnnMarie Brennan – Senior Lecturer in Design Theory, University of Melbourne
- Denise Costanzo – Associate Professor of Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University
- Paolo Tombesi – Professor of Construction and Architecture, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
- William Whittaker – Curator and Collections Manager, University of Pennsylvania
Publications
Events
Symposium: Making and Remaking Canberra
Session 2 | Romaldo Giurgola: Rome, Philadelphia, Canberra
Date: Friday, 1 November 2024
Venue: National Film and Sound Archive
The project is funded through the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (DP) scheme under the number DP220101537.
Image: Photography by Neil Fenelon, 2011