A lecturer in architecture at RMIT, Stuart Harrison is an architect, director of Harrison and White and co-host of The Architects radio show on 3RRR. He is the author of Forty-Six Square Metres of Land Doesn’t Normally Become a House (2011) and New Suburban: Reinventing the Family Home in Australia and New Zealand (2013), both published by Thames and Hudson.
Stuart Harrison's Latest contributions
Exhibition brings attention to Adelaide’s champions of modernist architecture
Stuart Harrison reviews Dickson and Platten Architects: 1950-2000, an exhibition covering the life and work of two of Adelaide’s most significant contributors to Australian modernism.
Vale Nick Searle
Stuart Harrison remembers architect Nick Searle of Searle x Waldron.
Architecture in an on-demand economy: Thomas Fisher
Ahead of How Soon is Now?, Stuart Harrison speaks with Thomas Fisher about vulnerability in the architecture profession.
Sawmill House by Archier
Experimentation is at the centre of a single-bedroom house, designed by Archier, with genuinely new ideas and traditional technologies rethought.
Where is Australia’s low-rise, high-density housing?
The work of a largely forgotten architect demonstrates that density doesn’t have to come at the price of amenity.
Quack! What happened in Vegas
A travelling exhibition about American architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown is augmented for its Melbourne appearance to examine the impact of their work on Australian architecture.
Heavy Metal Retaining Wall
A semipermanent intervention on the front lawn of Tasmania’s MONA by Monash University’s Design-Make program.
Fairfield Hacienda
A new suburban home by MRTN Architects breaks with convention to maximize amenity.
Spring Street Grocer
A Melbourne gelateria, provedore and cheese cellar by architect Kristin Green.
Forever House
A suburban Melbourne house recast with a lateral approach by WoodWoodWard Architecture.