Stuart Harrison

2 months ago | architectureau.com | Stuart Harrison

Maria Larkins’s book, Grounds, Romberg and Boyd: Melbourne’s Midcentury Modernists, is both about the famed Australian architectural firm and architectural practice of the 1950s and 60s more broadly. The bright yellow cover, with a floor plan of the Academy of Science building blazed across it, sets up the graphic theme for the book – and perhaps makes a pairing with the orange cover of Christine Phillips and Peter Raisbeck’s Robin Boyd: Late Works from 2020.

Sep 15, 2024 | architectureau.com | Stuart Harrison

Often, mixed-use projects aren’t really that mixed – housing with some retail or commercial at the base. The redevelopment of the Munro site next to the famous Queen Victoria Market in Naarm/Melbourne is genuinely mixed-use, with some original heritage fabric retained. The project consists of private build -to-rent and social housing, a City of Melbourne library, family services, a hotel, retail, hospitality and car parking.

Aug 27, 2024 | smallfarmersjournal.com | Stuart Harrison

by Stuart Harrison of Devon, UKAs a boy, I clearly remember the blaze of wildflowers in the hay fields across from the railway line, a place where a few of my school chums and I would ride our bicycles to and earn a little extra pocket money helping out during hay making. To us, the hay meadows seemed constant and unremarkable despite their splendor; they were the backdrop to our school free summers, there on the chalk downland of Sussex in the early 1970’s.

Aug 25, 2024 | architectureau.com | Stuart Harrison

Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, who is about to give a public lecture in Melbourne, discusses the history and future of climatic architecture with architect and senior lecturer of architectural design Stuart Harrison. Stuart Harrison: Philippe, thanks for joining me. What do you mean by this term, “climatic architecture?”Phillipe Rahm: The basic idea of climatic architecture is to say that the origin of architecture is climatic.

Jun 12, 2024 | meanjin.com.au | Stuart Harrison

On a wall in my house, near where I keep the books, there is a framed photograph of architect Robin Boyd’s own house on Walsh Street in South Yarra. The photograph captures late sunlight shining through the high windows on the street-facing façade and reflecting off the famous draping ceiling. Taken a few years ago by Peter Bennetts, the image captures how we continue to look back in new ways at this extraordinary body of work.