Stuart King is a senior lecturer in architectural design and history at the University of Melbourne. He is a member of the university’s Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH), and he undertakes research in Australian architecture.
Stuart King's Latest contributions
Harriet’s House by So: Architecture
Surprising and joyful , this one-room addition to a compact Georgian cottage is the outcome of a six-year-long conversation and collaboration between architect and client.
Intertwining past and present: Bozen’s Cottage
A dexterous restoration of a Georgian cottage in a historic Tasmanian village is executed in timber and mild steel – materials that pay tribute to the past and the story of those who have lived there.
A church that projected progressivist ideals in Tasmanian suburbia
Now painted white and carpeted in blue, this church in Tasmania is a rare example of brutalism allied to postwar liturgical reform.
Modern dialogue: Longview Avenue Garden Room
Taylor and Hinds Architects’ addition to a 1950s modernist house starts a “conversation” with the original architecture, without compromising the originality and idiosyncrasy of the new.