• Host & Panellists

  Host

  Prof. Hannah Lewi

  PROFESSOR IN ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. CO-DIRECTOR, AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, URBAN AND CULTURAL HERITAGE.

  

  Professor Hannah Lewi's areas of expertise in teaching and research 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. Hannah has been a registered architect with the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), is a past President of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) and past co-editor of Fabrications Journal. She is current vice-chair of DOCOMOMO Australia, an organisation involved in the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the modern movement. Her recent books include “Australia Modern: Architecture, Landscape, Design” and a forthcoming book “ADAPT: designing new lives for old buildings.”

  Panellists

  Dr. Michelle Stevenson

  HEAD OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY, MUSEUMS VICTORIA. CULTURAL HERITAGE HISTORIAN AND CURATOR.

  

  With over 15 years’ experience as a museum and cultural heritage professional, Michelle is passionate about history, heritage and creative ways of sharing knowledge with a wide range of audiences. As Head of the History & Technology department at the Museums Victoria Research Institute, she leads a dedicated team of curators and collection managers to facilitate the development, care and use of the History & Technology collections across all MV venues and departments. Michelle led the ten-year Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade project and has been involved in several projects exploring ways technology can be used to manage, preserve and interpret Melbourne's only UNESCO World Heritage site. Michelle holds a PhD in Cultural Heritage, Museum Studies and History from Deakin University and is co-chair of the Australian World Heritage Advisory Committee.

  Dr. Jason Crow

  DIRECTOR OF PHD IN ARCHITECTURE, URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN, MONASH UNIVERSITY.

  

  Dr. Jason Crow is a Senior Lecturer of Architecture at Monash University and a licensed architect in Pennsylvania. He holds a BA in Architecture from Clemson University, a Master of Architecture from Iowa State University, and worked as a professional architect in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Quebec. He was the founding CTO of the Facility for Architectural Research in Media and Mediation (FARMM), McGill University’s high-performance computation research laboratory. Dr. Crow was a research fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and an Arthur C. Tagge fellow at McGill, where he completed his PhD dissertation examining the influence of material culture on the origins of Gothic architecture. His recent monograph, A New Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture: Reconstructing the Abbey of Saint-Denis examines the twelfth century understanding of stone architecture through the intertwined histories of theology, science and craft.

  Dan Blake

  CO-FOUNDER AND CONSERVATION ARCHITECT, CONSERVATION STUDIO.

  

  Dan Blake is a Co-Founder and Conservation Architect at Conservation Studio, an emerging practice specialising in the conservation, restoration and adaptive reuse of heritage listed buildings and historic structures. He has a Bachelor of Architecture from RMIT, is a registered architect with the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA), and a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). Dan has been the project lead for many works on the Royal Exhibition Building.

  Christophe Loustau

  CO-FOUNDER AND CONSERVATION ARCHITECT, CONSERVATION STUDIO.

  

  Christophe Loustau is a Co-Founder and Conservation Architect at Conservation Studio, an emerging practice specialising in the conservation, restoration and adaptive reuse of heritage listed buildings and historic structures. He has a Master of Architecture (École d’Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux), a Master in Historic Preservation (École de Chaillot, France) and is a registered architect with the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA). In France, Christophe contributed to the conservation works of many complex heritage places including Ecole Militaire (Paris, built in 1752), Manufacture des Gobelins (Paris, founded in 1601), Mobilier national (Paris, built in 1937) and Corsican churches and Cathedral (various between the 12th to 18th centuries).

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