Harriet Edquist
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RMIT University
Harriet Edquist | |
|---|---|
| Awards | Bates Smart National Award for Architecture in the Media |
| Academic background | |
| Education | St Catherine's School, Toorak |
| Alma mater | Monash University, RMIT University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | RMIT University |
Harriet Edquist AM FAHA is an Australian historian and curator, and professor emerita in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University in Melbourne.[1] Born and educated in Melbourne, she has published widely on and created numerous exhibitions in the field of Australian architecture, art and design history. She has also contributed to the production of Australian design knowledge as the founding editor of the RMIT Design Archives Journal and is a member of the Design Research Institute at RMIT University.
Edquist graduated from St Catherine's School, Toorak in 1965.[2] She then studied for a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in classics (1976)[3] from Monash University, and completed a PhD in Architectural History at RMIT University (2000).[4]
Academic career
Edquist began her teaching career as a lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne, and specialised in Renaissance and modern art history.
In 1987, she joined RMIT University as editor (with Karen Burns) of Transition: Discourse on Architecture; a quarterly magazine produced by the Department of Architecture from 1979 until 2000 and dedicated to discourse on contemporary architectural practice and theory.[5] Serving from 1987 to 1991, the partnership of Edquist and Karen Burns stretched the critical range of this publication, arguing - as they wrote in their editorial for Transition 38 - that architectural discourse could extend "the boundaries of discussion to include all the arts and observations on the society".[6] They were both subsequently replaced as editors of Transition following a controversial 're-setting' of the publication's agenda, which was played out publicly through editorials and letters.[7]
In 1988, Edquist was appointed lecturer in Architectural History by RMIT University and from 2001 to 2007 served as Head of the School of Architecture and Design. She now holds the position of professor emerita at RMIT University. She was previously the founder and director of the RMIT Design Archives and founding editor of the RMIT Design Archives Journal.[8]
She is currently a member (and was the past President from 2003 to 2005) of SAHANZ, the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand.[9] Professor Edquist is also a member of Docomomo Australia.
In June 2015, she became the Foundation President of Automotive Historians Australia.[10] This organisation focusses on Australian automative history and was launched alongside Shifting Gear: Design, Innovation and the Australian car, an exhibition curated by Edquist in conjunction with David Hurlston at the NGV.
Curated exhibitions
- 2015 Shifting Gear: Design, Innovation and the Australian car, NGV Federation Square - with David Hurlston
- 2014 Free, Secular and Democratic: building the Public Library 1853–1913 Archived 5 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine,[11] State Library of Victoria
- 2013 Frederick Romberg: An Architectural Survey Archived 14 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, RMIT Design Archives - with Michael Spooner, Keith Deverell, and Stephen Banham
- 2012 The Lost Modernist. Michael O'Connell,[12][13] Bendigo Art Gallery - with Tansy Curtin
- 2012 A skilled hand and cultivated mind: a guide to the architecture and art of RMIT University[14] - with Elizabeth Grierson
- 2010-11 The Stony Rises Project, touring exhibition RMIT Gallery and regional Victorian galleries - with Laurene Vaughan and Lisa Byrne
- 2010 The architecture of Neil Clerehan[15] - with Richard Black
- 2002 Kurt Popper[16][17], Jewish Museum of Australia
- 2001 Ernest Fooks,[17] Jewish Museum of Australia - with Helen Stuckey
- 2001 Frederick Romberg. An Architecture of Migration 1938-1975, RMIT Gallery and the University of Queensland Gallery - with Helen Stuckey
- 1999 Wolfgang Sievers & Stanhill,[18] RMIT Gallery - with Vanessa Bird
- 1992 The Angelic Space. A Celebration of Piero della Francesca's 500th Anniversary, Monash University Gallery - with Juliana Engberg
- 1991 George Baldessin. An Exhibition of Drawings,[19] Heide Museum of Modern Art
- 1991 Diologhi per una possibile Utopia, Museo Civico Cuneo, Piedmont and Turin Politecnico, Italy - with Karen Burns and Mauro Baracco
- 1991 Companion City,[5] ACCA Archived 8 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Australian Centre of Contemporary Art) - with Karen Burns
- 1989 Robin Boyd: The Architect as Critic,[20] State Library of Victoria - with Karen Burns and Dean Cass
