Histories of architecture and the built environment
Architectural pasts, modes of practice, power, and ideas
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.
