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DR HANNAH LEWI



Contact Details

Organization: Architecture, Building and Planning
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/staff/lewih.html
Work: 47439
Room: BS G17
Building: Architecture And Planning Building
Campus: Parkville

Biography

Dr Hannah Lewi's areas of expertise lie in architectural design, history and theory. Her research interests include Australian and modern history, heritage and place-making, and new media for publishing history. Dr Lewi currently teaches 19th- and 20th-century history and design; architectural and urban theory; and research methods. She is a registered architect with the ARAIA, is the current President of SAHANZ, and member of DOCOMOMO international and the AA (UK).

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Australian and modern history Australia
Heritage and place-making Australia
New media and techniques of representation for architectural history Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
France Docomomo International Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts The University of Western Australia 31-Dec-1992
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Western Australia 31-Dec-1999
Bachelor of Architecture The University of Western Australia 31-Dec-1989

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Unspecified Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and NZ President 01-Jan-2006
Unspecified Docomomo Australia and International Co-editor of Fabrications Journal 01-Jan-2002

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Institute of British Architects Recipient of the Royal Institute of British Architects Supervisor Medal for best Honours Thesis - international competition 2002 01-Jan-2002

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
To attend the VIII international DOCOMOMO conference in New York, September 2004. Theme: "Import/export: postwar modernism in an expanding world" Chief Investigator THE IAN POTTER FOUNDATION Travel and Conference Grants 06/08/2004
"Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Designing Everyday Modernism for Australian Communities 1920-1970" Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
Keeping the Past Public: The Conservation of Modern Places Chief Investigator THE IAN POTTER FOUNDATION Travel and Conference Grants 01/08/2008
THE MODERN HOUSE ON PUBLIC DISPLAY - MELBOURNE EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER GRANT SCHEME 2006 Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Conference Publications/Papers

  • New technologies of history-telling at the Shire of Remembrance, Melbourne
    Year: 2009
    Event name: 26th International SAHANZ Conference
    Conference Publication: Cultural Crossroads: Proceedings of the 26th International SAHANZ Conference
    Page numbers: 581-595
    Publisher: The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Designing a virtual museum of architectural heritage
    Year: 2008
    Book: New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Modern Pools: The Triumph of the Artificial  
    Year: 2008
    Book: Modern Times: The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia
    Publisher: Powerhouse Publishing(Sydney)
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  • Pools and the modernising of the landscape
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Impact of the Modern: Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s - 1960s
    Publisher: Sydney University Press(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • Caroline Springs
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Landscape Architecture Australia
    Volume: 119
    Issue: Aug
    Page numbers: 46-50
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  • Spectacular Heritage: 'Total Restoration' at the Site of Carcassonne
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Architectural Theory Review
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 145-163
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  • The magic of machines in the house
    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Journal of Architecture
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 633-660
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    URL - restricted access http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13602360802453376
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Art, Business or Social Service?
    Year: 2008
    Event name: History in Practice. The XXVth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
    Conference Publication: History in Practice. Proceedings of the XXVth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
    Page numbers: 1-19
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Perth)
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • The Commonwealth Games Village as an Index of Western Australian Modern Housing
    Year: 2007
    Book: Living the Modern: Australia Architecture
    Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag(Ostfildern)
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Journal Articles

  • Drawing In and Fading Out: The Case of the Commonwealth Games Housing Village, Western Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Architectural Education
    Volume: 61
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 15-24
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Magical Beginnings of the Mundane
    Year: 2007
    Event name: International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of SIMTECH 2007
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: Lancaster University (Lancaster)
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    URL - open access http://www.mundanetechnologies.com/goings-on/workshop/melbourne/index.html
  • The Kew Club: The Modernist Mythology of a Middle-Ring Suburb
    Year: 2007
    Event name: XXIVth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (2007)
    Conference Publication: Panorama to Paradise: Scopic Regimes in Architectural and Urban History and Theory. Proceedings of the XXIVth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) 2007
    Page numbers: 1-17
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Adelaide)
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  • Trivial Technologies of Effect in the Home
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Fourth International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia
    Conference Publication: Techniques & Technologies: Transfer & Transformation. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia
    Page numbers: 137-143
    Publisher: Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia(Melbourne)
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    URL - open access http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2100/501/3/eBook%20Oct07%20AASA.pdf

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Living in Landscape
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Architecture Australia
    Volume: 95
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 33-34
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • "Total Restoration" and the Simulation of Place: a revisiting of Viollet-le-Duc's restoration of Carcassonne


    Year: 2006
    Event name: Contested Terrains. XXIII Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historian, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) 2006
    Conference Publication: Contested Terrains. XXIII Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historian, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) 2006
    Page numbers: 291-296
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Perth)
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  • Designing a Virtual Museum of Architectural Heritage


    Year: 2006
    Event name: New Heritage: Beyond Verisimilitude. The New Heritage Conference
    Conference Publication: New Heritage: Beyond Verisimilitude. Conference on Cultural Heritage & New Media. Proceedings of the New Heritage Conference
    Page numbers: 320-335
    Publisher: The University of Hong Kong
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  • The Commonwealth Games Housing Village: a case study model


    Year: 2006
    Event name: Rehousing: UAL International Housing Conference, Urban Architecture Laboratory, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
    Conference Publication: Rehousing: Conference Proceedings. UAL International Housing Conference 2006, RMIT architecture.
    Page numbers: 105-110
    Publisher: RMIT University(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Pavilions for New Architecture
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Architecture Australia
    Volume: 94
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 31-36
    Publisher: Architecture Media Pty Ltd(Melbourne)
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  • Whose Heritage: The Contested Site of the Swan Brewery
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Fabrications
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 43-61
    Publisher: The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • More than just a hole in the ground
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Celebration: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
    Conference Publication: Celebration: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
    Page numbers: 203-209
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Perth)
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  • The Urbanite's Favourite Cocktail?..Cosmopolitan
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Sites of Cosmopolitanism Confernece
    Conference Publication: Sites of Cosmopolitanism
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University(Brisbane)
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Publications in 2004

Publications in 2003

Books

  • Fading Events and Places: the architecture of the VIIth British Empire and Commonwealth Games Village and Perry Lakes Stadium
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Curtin University of Technology(Perth)
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Book Chapters

  • Exhibiting Antipodean Narratives: Tracing the Perth Museum Site


    Year: 2003
    Book: The Architecture of the Museum: Symbolic Structures, Urban Contexts
    Publisher: Manchester University Press(Manchester)
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  • Government Architect Hillson Beasley, 1855-1936
    Year: 2003
    Book: The Australian Dictionary of Biography Supplementary Volume
    Publisher: Macquarie University(Sydney)
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    URL - open access http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10030b.htm

Journal Articles

  • Star-Gazing from the Scarp
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Fabrications
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 51-73
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Suburban Sport
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 20th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand
    Conference Publication: Progress, proceedings of the 20th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand
    Page numbers: 303-309
    Publisher: The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand(Sydney)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Paradoxes in the Conservation of Modernism
    Year: 2002
    Book: Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movement
    Publisher: 010 Publishers(Rotterdam)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Day Out at the Hyper-Museum


    Year: 2002
    Event name: The XIX Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
    Conference Publication: Additions to architectural history : proceedings of the XIX Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand(Sydney)
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  • The Hyper-Museum: designing a non-linear architectural history for digital media
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 4th International CAiiA-STAR Conference
    Conference Publication: Consciousness Reframed: the 4th International CAiiA-STAR Conference
    Publisher: Curtin University of Technology(Perth)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • The Commemorative Anatomy of a Colonial Park


    Year: 2001
    Book: Architecture and Landscape between analysis and memory
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(London)
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