Cameron Logan a research fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne where he is part of an ARC funded research project on the history of school design in Australia. His research interests include the social politics of neighbourhood preservation and restoration; the conceptual problems related to the conservation and demolition of modern buildings; and changing ideas of monumentality and historicity from the nineteenth century onwards.
He has published articles on urban history, heritage conservation and architectural history in the Urban History Review, The Journal of Architecture and the APT Bulletin among other venues and is currently working on two book projects, an urban history of Washington, D.C., and an architectural history of the modern hospital.
Cameron Logan's Latest contributions
‘Let it rip’: Barangaroo, a masterclass in planning as deal-making
The redevelopment of the 22-hectare Barangaroo precinct on Sydney Harbour has long been a decade-long saga of secretive monopolies, unsolicited urbanism and lack of due process.
War on the demolishers? Probably not, and timing of NSW heritage review is curious
The NSW government has released a discussion paper expressing its ambition to review and “modernise” the Heritage Act (1977).
Designing Australian schools
Schools designed from the postwar period must be conserved, writes Cameron Logan.
