Dr Hannah Lewi
BArch, BA, PhD, ARAIA
Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Email: hlewi@unimelb.edu.au
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 member of RAIA, RIBA, SAHANZ, DOCOMOMO and AA (UK).
Current Teaching Responsibilities
702231 Modern Architecture A: the nineteenth century
702574 Design Investigation
702206 Architectural Design 2B
Research Interests
- Australian and modern history
- heritage and place-making
- new media for publishing history
Funded Research
| Project | Health Bodies, Healthy Minds: Designing Everyday Modernism for Australian Communities 1920-1970 (with Darian-Smith K, Goad PJ, Willis JL, Murphy J.) |
| Year: | 2006-2008 |
| Source: | Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Grant |
| Project | Fading Events and Places |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Source: | Curtin University Small ARC Discovery Grant, Town of Cambridge Development Grant and RAIA exhibition Grant |
| Project | Visualising the Architecture of Federation (with D. Dolan and E. Williamson) |
| Year: | 2001-2 |
| Source: | National Council of the Centenary of Federation - History and Education Committee Program |
Recent Publications
Books
Lewi, H., Williamson, E., & Goldswain, P., Visualising the Architecture of Federation CD-Rom, Council for the Centenary of Federation Canberra, and Diatribe Publishers, Perth, 2001.
Book chapters
Lewi, H., 'Exhibiting Antipodean Narratives: Tracing the Perth Museum Site', in The Architecture of the Museum: Symbolic Structures, Urban Contexts, M.Giebelhausen, (ed), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2003.
Lewi, H., 'Paradoxes in the Conservation of Modernism', in Back from Utopia: the Challenge of the Modern Movement, Heinen and Henket (eds), 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2002.
Lewi, H., 'The Commemorative Anatomy of a Colonial Park', in Architecture and Landscape between analysis and memory, J.Birksted, (ed), London, Taylor and Francis, 2001.
Refereed journal articles
Lewi HO. 2005. Whose Heritage: The Contested Site of the Swan Brewery. Fabrications. 15(2):43-61.
Lewi, H., 'Star-gazing from the Scarp', in Fabrications: the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand, Vol 12, No 2, 2002.
Refereed conference papers
Lewi HO. 2005. More than just a hole in the ground. In A Leach & G Matthewson (eds), Celebration: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. 203-209. Perth, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).
Lewi HO. 2005. The Urbanite's Favourite Cocktail? Cosmopolitan. In D Ellison & I Woodward (eds), Sites of Cosmopolitanism. 1-9. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University.Lewi, H. & Neille, S., 'Fading Events and Places' in proceedings of the 20th annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand, University of Sydney, NSW, 2003.
Lewi H., 'A Day Out at the Hyper-Museum' in ADDITIONS, proceedings of the 19th annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand, (eds.) J. Macarthur, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2002.
Lewi, H., 'Place and Text: the annotation of everyday places', in In the Making: Architecture's Past, proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand, (eds.) K. Green, University of Northern Territory, Darwin, 2001.
Lewi, H., 'Envisioning the Urban Inscription of Perth', in Proceedings of the 5th Australian Urban History/Planning History Conference, (eds), C.Garnaut & S. Hamnett, Adelaide, 2000.
Lewi, H., 'The Incongruities of Newness, History and Age', in Proceedings of the International Habitus 2000 Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 2000.
Lewi, H., 'Just an Outdated Piece of Junk', in Fabricating History , Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand, eds. A. Leach & E. Petrovic, Wellington University, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000.
Lewi, H, & Goldswain, P., 'Writing Hyper-Histories', in Fabricating History, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand, ed. A. Leach & E. Petrovic, Wellington University, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000.
Exhibitions
Lewi, H. & Neille, S., 'Fading Events and Places: the architecture of the VII Commonwealth and Empire Games' major exhibition catalogue, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, 2003.
Contributions to Major Reference Works
Lewi, H., biographical entry for 'Government Architect Hillson Beasley, 1855-1936' for The Australian Dictionary of Biography Supplementary Volume, Macquarie University Press, 2002.