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'''Harriet Edquist''' is an Australian curator, and professor of architectural history in the School of Architecture and Design at [[RMIT University]] in [[Melbourne]]. Born and educated in Melbourne, she has both published widely on and created numerous exhibitions in the field of Australian (in particular, Victorian) architecture, art and design history. She also contributes to the production of Australian architectural knowledge as a director of the RMIT Design Archives and is a member of the Design Research Institute at RMIT University.
'''Harriet Edquist''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|FAHA}} is an Australian historian and curator, and Professor Emerita in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at [[RMIT University]] in [[Melbourne]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/e/edquist-professor-harriet|title=Staff Profile: Professor Harriet Edquist|access-date=29 April 2018}}</ref> Born and educated in Melbourne, she has published widely on and created numerous exhibitions in the field of Australian architecture, art and design history. She has also contributed to the production of Australian design knowledge as the founding editor of the RMIT Design Archives Journal and is a member of the Design Research Institute at RMIT University.


== Education ==
== Education ==
Edquist graduated from [[St Catherine's School, Toorak|St Catherine's School]], Toorak in 1965.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Nil Magnum Nisi Bonum|url = http://www.stcatherines.net.au/nil-magnum-nisi-bonum|website = St Catherines School|accessdate = 2015-10-11}}</ref> She then studied for a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Classics from [[Monash University]], and completed a PhD in Architectural History at RMIT University.
Edquist graduated from [[St Catherine's School, Toorak|St Catherine's School]], Toorak in 1965.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Nil Magnum Nisi Bonum|url = http://www.stcatherines.net.au/nil-magnum-nisi-bonum|website = St Catherines School|access-date = 2015-10-11}}</ref> She then studied for a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Classics (1976)<ref>{{Citation|author1=Edquist|first=Harriet|title=The concept of otium in the pastorals of Theocritus and Virgil|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5479325|publication-date=1976|access-date=9 March 2021}}</ref> from [[Monash University]], and completed a PhD in Architectural History at RMIT University (2000).<ref>{{Citation|author1=Edquist|first=Harriett|title=Harold Desbrowe-Annear, 1865–1933: A life in architecture|url=https://primo-direct-apac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1d27kpc/RMIT_ALMA2138668920001341|publication-date=2000|access-date=9 March 2021}}</ref>


== Academic career ==
== Academic career ==
Edquist began her teaching career as a lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts, [[University of Melbourne]], and specialised in Renaissance and modern art history.
Edquist began her teaching career as a lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts, [[University of Melbourne]], and specialised in Renaissance and modern art history.


In 1987, she joined RMIT University as editor (with [[Karen Burns (academic)|Karen Burns]]) of ''Transition: Discourse on Architecture''; a quarterly magazine produced by the Department of Architecture from 1979 until 2000 and dedicated to discourse on contemporary architectural practice and theory.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title = Companion City {{!}} ACCA|url = https://www.accaonline.org.au/exhibition/companion-city|website = www.accaonline.org.au|accessdate = 2015-10-11}}</ref> Serving from 1987 to 1991, the partnership of Edquist and Karen Burns stretched the critical range of this publication, arguing - as they wrote in their editorial for ''Transition 38 -'' that architectural discourse could extend "the boundaries of discussion to include all the arts and observations on the society".<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://sahanz2015.be.unsw.edu.au/papers/Sawyer_Call-and-Response.pdf|title = Call-and-Response: Group Formation and Agency enacted through an Architectural Magazine, its Letters and Editorials|last = Sawyer|first = Mark|date = 2015|journal = Architecture Institutions and Change, Proceedings of SAHANZ|doi = |pmid = |access-date = 11 October 2015|volume = 32|isbn = 978 0 646 94298 8|page = 553}}</ref> They were both subsequently replaced as editors of ''Transition'' following a controversial 're-setting' of the publication's agenda, which was played out publicly through editorials and letters.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://sahanz2015.be.unsw.edu.au/papers/Sawyer_Call-and-Response.pdf|title = Call-and-Response: Group Formation and Agency enacted through an Architectural Magazine, its Letters and Editorials|last = Sawyer|first = Mark|date = 2015|journal = Architecture Institutions and Change, Proceedings of SAHANZ|doi = |pmid = |access-date = 11 October 2015|isbn = 978 0 646 94298 8|volume = 32|page = 554}}</ref>
In 1987, she joined RMIT University as editor (with [[Karen Burns (academic)|Karen Burns]]) of ''Transition: Discourse on Architecture''; a quarterly magazine produced by the Department of Architecture from 1979 until 2000 and dedicated to discourse on contemporary architectural practice and theory.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title = Companion City {{!}} ACCA|url = https://www.accaonline.org.au/exhibition/companion-city|website = www.accaonline.org.au|access-date = 2015-10-11}}</ref> Serving from 1987 to 1991, the partnership of Edquist and Karen Burns stretched the critical range of this publication, arguing - as they wrote in their editorial for ''Transition 38 -'' that architectural discourse could extend "the boundaries of discussion to include all the arts and observations on the society".<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://sahanz2015.be.unsw.edu.au/papers/Sawyer_Call-and-Response.pdf|title = Call-and-Response: Group Formation and Agency enacted through an Architectural Magazine, its Letters and Editorials|last = Sawyer|first = Mark|date = 2015|journal = Architecture Institutions and Change, Proceedings of SAHANZ|access-date = 11 October 2015|volume = 32|isbn = 978-0-646-94298-8|page = 553}}</ref> They were both subsequently replaced as editors of ''Transition'' following a controversial 're-setting' of the publication's agenda, which was played out publicly through editorials and letters.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://sahanz2015.be.unsw.edu.au/papers/Sawyer_Call-and-Response.pdf|title = Call-and-Response: Group Formation and Agency enacted through an Architectural Magazine, its Letters and Editorials|last = Sawyer|first = Mark|date = 2015|journal = Architecture Institutions and Change, Proceedings of SAHANZ|access-date = 11 October 2015|isbn = 978-0-646-94298-8|volume = 32|page = 554}}</ref>


In 1988, Edquist was appointed lecturer in Architectural History by RMIT University and from 2001 to 2007 served as Head of the School of Architecture and Design. She now holds the positions of Professor of Architectural History at RMIT University, and director of the RMIT Design Archives.<ref name="rmit.edu.au">{{Cite web|url = http://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff%2Dcontacts/academic%2Dstaff/e/edquist%2Dprofessor%2Dharriet|title = RMIT Academic Profile: Professor Harriet Edquist|date = |accessdate = 11 October 2015|website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref>
In 1988, Edquist was appointed lecturer in Architectural History by RMIT University and from 2001 to 2007 served as Head of the School of Architecture and Design. She now holds the position of Professor Emerita at RMIT University. She was previously founder and director of the RMIT Design Archives and founding editor of the RMIT Design Archives Journal.<ref name="rmit.edu.au">{{Cite web|url = http://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff%2Dcontacts/academic%2Dstaff/e/edquist%2Dprofessor%2Dharriet|title = RMIT Academic Profile: Professor Harriet Edquist|access-date = 11 October 2015}}</ref>


She is currently a member (and was the past President from 2003 to 2005) of [[SAHANZ]], the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web|title = About SAHANZ|url = http://www.sahanz.net/about/index.html#lifemembers|website = www.sahanz.net|accessdate = 2015-10-11}}</ref> Professor Edquist is also a member of [http://docomomoaustralia.com.au Docomomo Australia].
She is currently a member (and was the past President from 2003 to 2005) of [[SAHANZ]], the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite news|title = About SAHANZ|url = http://www.sahanz.net/about/index.html#lifemembers|newspaper = Sahanz|access-date = 2015-10-11}}</ref> Professor Edquist is also a member of [http://docomomoaustralia.com.au Docomomo Australia].


In June 2015, she became the Foundation President of Automotive Historians Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|title = OFFICE BEARERS/ COMMITTEE|url = http://www.autohistoriansaustralia.org/new-page-1/|website = Automotive Historians Australia Inc|accessdate = 2015-10-11}}</ref> This new organisation focusses on Australian automative history and was launched alongside '''Shifting Gear: Design, Innovation and the Australian car''', an exhibition curated by Edquist in conjunction with David Hurlston.
In June 2015, she became the Foundation President of Automotive Historians Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|title = OFFICE BEARERS/ COMMITTEE|url = http://www.autohistoriansaustralia.org/new-page-1/|website = Automotive Historians Australia Inc|access-date = 2015-10-11}}</ref> This organisation focusses on Australian automative history and was launched alongside '''Shifting Gear: Design, Innovation and the Australian car''', an exhibition curated by Edquist in conjunction with David Hurlston at the NGV.


== Curated exhibitions ==
== Curated exhibitions ==

*2015 ''[http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/shifting-gear/ Shifting Gear: Design, Innovation and the Australian car]'', [[Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia|NGV Federation Square]] - with David Hurlston
*2015 ''[http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/shifting-gear/ Shifting Gear: Design, Innovation and the Australian car]'', [[Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia|NGV Federation Square]] - with David Hurlston
*2014 ''[http://exhibitions.slv.vic.gov.au/dome100/exhibitions/free-secular-and-democratic Free, Secular and Democratic: building the Public Library 1853–1913]'',<ref>{{Cite web|title = Historyonics: Australia's first public library|url = http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/historyonics3a-australia27s-first-public-library/4952160|website = Radio National|accessdate = 2015-10-11|language = en}}</ref> [[State Library of Victoria]]
*2014 ''[http://exhibitions.slv.vic.gov.au/dome100/exhibitions/free-secular-and-democratic Free, Secular and Democratic: building the Public Library 1853–1913]'',<ref>{{Cite web|title = Historyonics: Australia's first public library|url = http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/historyonics3a-australia27s-first-public-library/4952160|website = Radio National|date = 11 September 2013|access-date = 2015-10-11|language = en}}</ref> [[State Library of Victoria]]
*2013 ''[https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2013/april/frederick-romberg-an-architectural-survey/ Frederick Romberg: An Architectural Survey]'', [[RMIT University|RMIT]] Design Archives - with Michael Spooner, Keith Deverell, and Stephen Banham
*2013 ''[https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2013/april/frederick-romberg-an-architectural-survey/ Frederick Romberg: An Architectural Survey]'', [[RMIT University|RMIT]] Design Archives - with Michael Spooner, Keith Deverell, and Stephen Banham
*2012 ''[http://www.bendigoartgallery.com.au/Exhibitions/Past_Exhibitions/2011_Exhibition_Archive/The_Lost_Modernist_Michael_OConnell The Lost Modernist. Michael O'Connell]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/in-search-of-the-lost-modernist-of-design/story-e6frg8n6-1226204077027|title = In search of the lost modernist of design|date = |accessdate = 11 October 2015|website = The Australian|publisher = |last = Sorensen|first = Rosemary}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Michael O’Connell: The Lost Modernist|url = http://architectureau.com/articles/michael-oconnell-the-lost-modernist/|website = ArchitectureAU|accessdate = 2015-10-11}}</ref> [[Bendigo Art Gallery]] - with Tansy Curtin
*2012 ''[http://www.bendigoartgallery.com.au/Exhibitions/Past_Exhibitions/2011_Exhibition_Archive/The_Lost_Modernist_Michael_OConnell The Lost Modernist. Michael O'Connell]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/in-search-of-the-lost-modernist-of-design/story-e6frg8n6-1226204077027|title = In search of the lost modernist of design|access-date = 11 October 2015|website = The Australian|last = Sorensen|first = Rosemary}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Michael O'Connell: The Lost Modernist|url = http://architectureau.com/articles/michael-oconnell-the-lost-modernist/|website = ArchitectureAU|access-date = 2015-10-11}}</ref> [[Bendigo Art Gallery]] - with Tansy Curtin
*2012 ''[https://universitypress.rmittraining.com/skilled-hand-and-cultivated-mind-guide-architecture-and-art-rmit-university-second-edition-0 A skilled hand and cultivated mind: a guide to the architecture and art of RMIT University]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://universitypress.rmittraining.com/skilled-hand-and-cultivated-mind-guide-architecture-and-art-rmit-university-second-edition-0|title=A skilled hand and cultivated mind: a guide to the architecture and art of RMIT University|date=2015-01-27|website=English Worldwide|language=en|access-date=2019-05-31}}</ref> - with Elizabeth Grierson
*2010-11 ''[http://thestonyrisesproject.com The Stony Rises Project]'', touring exhibition [[RMIT Gallery]] and regional Victorian galleries - with Laurene Vaughan and Lisa Byrne
*2010-11 ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160111072428/http://thestonyrisesproject.com/ The Stony Rises Project]'', touring exhibition [[RMIT Gallery]] and regional Victorian galleries - with Laurene Vaughan and Lisa Byrne
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*2002 ''Kurt Popper''<ref>{{Cite book|title = Kurt Popper : from Vienna to Melbourne, architecture 1939-1975 / Harriet Edquist|url = http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2334156|publisher = RMIT School of Architecture + Design|location = Melbourne, Vic|isbn = 0864592256|first = Harriet|last = Edquist}}</ref><ref name="Headlines">{{Cite web|title = Headlines|url = http://architectureau.com/articles/headlines-41/|website = ArchitectureAU|accessdate = 2015-10-11}}</ref>'','' [[Jewish Museum of Australia]]
*2010 ''[https://universitypress.rmittraining.com/architecture-neil-clerehan The architecture of Neil Clerehan]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://universitypress.rmittraining.com/architecture-neil-clerehan|title=The architecture of Neil Clerehan|date=2015-01-27|website=English Worldwide|language=en|access-date=2019-05-31}}</ref> - with Richard Black
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*2002 ''Kurt Popper''<ref>{{Cite book|title = Kurt Popper : from Vienna to Melbourne, architecture 1939-1975 / Harriet Edquist|url = http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2334156|publisher = RMIT School of Architecture + Design|location = Melbourne, Vic|isbn = 0864592256|first = Harriet|last = Edquist|year = 2002}}</ref><ref name="Headlines">{{Cite web|title = Headlines|url = http://architectureau.com/articles/headlines-41/|website = ArchitectureAU|access-date = 2015-10-11}}</ref>'','' [[Jewish Museum of Australia]]
*2001 ''Ernest Fooks'',<ref name="Headlines"/> [[Jewish Museum of Australia]] - with Helen Stuckey
*2001 ''Ernest Fooks'',<ref name="Headlines"/> [[Jewish Museum of Australia]] - with Helen Stuckey
*2001 ''[http://mams.rmit.edu.au/8y2pk0ft2h6o.pdf Frederick Romberg. An Architecture of Migration 1938-1975]'', [[RMIT Gallery]] and the [[University of Queensland]] Gallery - with Helen Stuckey
*2001 ''Frederick Romberg. An Architecture of Migration 1938-1975'', [[RMIT Gallery]] and the [[University of Queensland]] Gallery - with Helen Stuckey
*1999 ''Wolfgang Sievers & Stanhill'',<ref>{{Cite web|title = Stanhill: 14 images by Wolfgang Sievers of Frederick Romberg's Stanhill Flats, 1951; event at Design and Art Australia Online|url = https://www.daao.org.au/bio/event/stanhill-14-images-by-wolfgang-sievers-of-frederick-rombergs-stanhill-flats-1951/|website = www.daao.org.au|accessdate = 2015-10-11}}</ref> [[RMIT Gallery]] - with Vanessa Bird
*1999 ''Wolfgang Sievers & Stanhill'',<ref>{{Cite web|title = Stanhill: 14 images by Wolfgang Sievers of Frederick Romberg's Stanhill Flats, 1951; event at Design and Art Australia Online|url = https://www.daao.org.au/bio/event/stanhill-14-images-by-wolfgang-sievers-of-frederick-rombergs-stanhill-flats-1951/|website = www.daao.org.au|access-date = 2015-10-11}}</ref> [[RMIT Gallery]] - with Vanessa Bird

*1992 ''The Angelic Space. A Celebration of Piero della Francesca's 500th Anniversary'', [[Monash University]] Gallery - with Juliana Engberg
*1992 ''The Angelic Space. A Celebration of Piero della Francesca's 500th Anniversary'', [[Monash University]] Gallery - with Juliana Engberg
*1991 ''George Baldessin. An Exhibition of Drawings'',<ref>{{Cite web|title = George Baldessin: an exhibition of drawings event at Design and Art Australia Online|url = https://www.daao.org.au/bio/event/george-baldessin-an-exhibition-of-drawings/|website = www.daao.org.au|accessdate = 2015-10-11}}</ref> [[Heide Museum of Modern Art]]
*1991 ''George Baldessin. An Exhibition of Drawings'',<ref>{{Cite web|title = George Baldessin: an exhibition of drawings event at Design and Art Australia Online|url = https://www.daao.org.au/bio/event/george-baldessin-an-exhibition-of-drawings/|website = www.daao.org.au|access-date = 2015-10-11}}</ref> [[Heide Museum of Modern Art]]
*1991 ''Diologhi per una possibile Utopia'', Museo Civico Cuneo, Piedmont and Turin Politecnico, Italy - with [[Karen Burns (academic)|Karen Burns]] and Mauro Baracco
*1991 ''Diologhi per una possibile Utopia'', Museo Civico Cuneo, Piedmont and Turin Politecnico, Italy - with [[Karen Burns (academic)|Karen Burns]] and Mauro Baracco
*1991 ''Companion City'',<ref name=":1"/> [https://www.accaonline.org.au ACCA] (Australian Centre of Contemporary Art) - with [[Karen Burns (academic)|Karen Burns]]
*1991 ''Companion City'',<ref name=":1"/> [https://www.accaonline.org.au ACCA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108111459/https://www.accaonline.org.au/ |date=8 November 2016 }} (Australian Centre of Contemporary Art) - with [[Karen Burns (academic)|Karen Burns]]
*1989 ''Robin Boyd: The Architect as Critic'',<ref>{{Cite web|title = Robin Boyd : the architect as critic / an exhibition at the La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria - Details - Trove|url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18620069|website = trove.nla.gov.au|accessdate = 2015-10-11}}</ref> [[State Library of Victoria]] - with [[Karen Burns (academic)|Karen Burns]] and Dean Cass
*1989 ''Robin Boyd: The Architect as Critic'',<ref>{{Cite web|title = Robin Boyd : the architect as critic / an exhibition at the La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria - Details - Trove|url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18620069|website = trove.nla.gov.au|access-date = 2015-10-11}}</ref> [[State Library of Victoria]] - with [[Karen Burns (academic)|Karen Burns]] and Dean Cass


== Selected recent publications * ==
== Selected recent publications * ==
*2014 'Architecture and design' In: ''Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth Century'', Australian Women's Archives Project 2014, Australia<ref>{{Cite web|title = Architecture and Design - Theme - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia|url = http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0030b.htm|website = www.womenaustralia.info|accessdate = 2015-10-11|language = en|first = The University of|last = Melbourne}}</ref>
*2014 'Architecture and design' In: ''Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth Century'', Australian Women's Archives Project 2014, Australia<ref>{{Cite web|title = Architecture and Design - Theme - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia|url = http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0030b.htm|website = www.womenaustralia.info|access-date = 2015-10-11|language = en|first = The University of|last = Melbourne}}</ref>
*2013 'Frederick Romberg (1913-1992): an architectural survey' In: ''[http://mams.rmit.edu.au/8y2pk0ft2h6o.pdf Frederick Romberg. An Architecture of Migration 1938-1975],'' Melbourne, Australia - with Spooner, M., Deverell, K., Banham, S., Ashton, K., and Tsolakis, L.)
*2013 'Frederick Romberg (1913-1992): an architectural survey' In: ''Frederick Romberg. An Architecture of Migration 1938-1975,'' Melbourne, Australia - with Spooner, M., Deverell, K., Banham, S., Ashton, K., and Tsolakis, L.
*2013 ''Building a new world: a history of the state library of Victoria 1853-1913'', State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia<ref>{{Cite web|title = Building a new world: a history of the State Library of Victoria 1853–1913|url = http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about-us/our-publications/building-new-world-history-state-library-victoria|website = State Library Victoria|accessdate = 2015-10-11}}</ref>
*2013 ''Building a new world: a history of the state library of Victoria 1853-1913'', State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia<ref>{{Cite web|title = Building a new world: a history of the State Library of Victoria 1853–1913|url = http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about-us/our-publications/building-new-world-history-state-library-victoria|website = State Library Victoria|access-date = 2015-10-11}}</ref>
*2013 '"An architecture to excite an interest": grand visions for Melbourne's public library' In: ''The La Trobe Journal'',<ref>{{Cite web|title = Home - La Trobe Journal|url = http://latrobejournal.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/index.html|website = latrobejournal.slv.vic.gov.au|accessdate = 2015-10-11|language = en}}</ref> 52 - 61
*2013 '"An architecture to excite an interest": grand visions for Melbourne's public library' In: ''The La Trobe Journal'',<ref>{{Cite web|title = Home - La Trobe Journal|url = http://latrobejournal.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/index.html|website = latrobejournal.slv.vic.gov.au|access-date = 2015-10-11|language = en}}</ref> 52 - 61
*2013 'The architectural legacy of the Scots in the western district of Victoria, Australia' In: ''Architectural Heritage'', 24, 67 - 85<ref>{{Cite journal|title = The Architectural Legacy of the Scots in the Western District of Victoria, Australia|url = http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/arch.2013.0046|journal = Architectural Heritage|date = 2013-11-01|issn = 1350-7524|pages = 67–85|volume = 24|issue = 1|doi = 10.3366/arch.2013.0046}}</ref>
*2013 'The architectural legacy of the Scots in the western district of Victoria, Australia' In: ''Architectural Heritage'', 24, 67 - 85<ref>{{Cite journal|title = The Architectural Legacy of the Scots in the Western District of Victoria, Australia|url = http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/arch.2013.0046|journal = Architectural Heritage|date = 2013-11-01|issn = 1350-7524|pages = 67–85|volume = 24|issue = 1|doi = 10.3366/arch.2013.0046|last1 = Edquist|first1 = Harriet}}</ref>
*2011 ''Michael O'Connell: The Lost Modernist,'' Melbourne Books, Melbourne, Australia<ref>{{Cite web|title = Michael O'Connell : the lost modernist / Harriet Edquist. - Version details - Trove|url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/154495159?q&versionId=168415408|website = trove.nla.gov.au|accessdate = 2015-10-11}}</ref>
*2011 ''Michael O'Connell: The Lost Modernist,'' Melbourne Books, Melbourne, Australia<ref>{{Cite web|title = Michael O'Connell : the lost modernist / Harriet Edquist. - Version details - Trove|url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/154495159?q&versionId=168415408|website = trove.nla.gov.au|access-date = 2015-10-11}}</ref>
*2010 ''Designing Place: An Archaeology of the Western District'', Melbourne Books, Melbourne Australia - with Lisa Byrne and Laurene Vaughan
*2010 ''Designing Place: An Archaeology of the Western District'', Melbourne Books, Melbourne Australia - with Lisa Byrne and Laurene Vaughan
*2008 ''Pioneers of Modernism. The Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia'', Miegunyah Press, Melbourne Australia
*2008 ''Pioneers of Modernism. The Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia'', [[Melbourne University Publishing|Miegunyah Press]], Melbourne Australia
*2004 ''Harold Desbrowe-Annear: a life in architecture'', Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, Australia<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title = Harold Desbrowe-Annear: A Life in Architecture|last = Edquist|first = Harriet|publisher = The Miegunyah Press|year = 2004|isbn = 9780522850529|location = Carlton, VIC, Australia|pages = }}</ref>
*2004 ''Harold Desbrowe-Annear: a life in architecture'', Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, Australia<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title = Harold Desbrowe-Annear: A Life in Architecture|last = Edquist|first = Harriet|publisher = The Miegunyah Press|year = 2004|isbn = 9780522850529|location = Carlton, VIC, Australia}}</ref>


== Awards and honours ==
== Awards and honours ==
In 1992, Edquist was awarded the Bates Smart National Award for Architecture in the Media, for her work editing ''Transition: Discourse on Architecture''.<ref name="rmit.edu.au"/> Edquist also shared this role with fellow architecture academic [[Karen Burns (academic)|Karen Burns]].
In 1992, Edquist was awarded the Bates Smart National Award for Architecture in the Media, for her work editing ''Transition: Discourse on Architecture''.<ref name="rmit.edu.au"/> Edquist also shared this role with fellow architecture academic [[Karen Burns (academic)|Karen Burns]].


In 2004, she was also awarded a Bates Smart National Award for Architecture in the Media, for her work writing the book ''Harold Desbrowe-Annear: A Life in Architecture''.<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.nla.gov.au/ojs/index.php/ras/article/viewFile/219/250|title = Harold Desbrowe-Annear, a life in architecture - a review|date = 2005|accessdate = 11 October 2015|website = |publisher = |last = Underhill|first = Nancy}}</ref>
In 2004, she was also awarded a Bates Smart National Award for Architecture in the Media, for her work writing the book ''[[Harold Desbrowe-Annear]]: A Life in Architecture''.<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.nla.gov.au/ojs/index.php/ras/article/viewFile/219/250|title = Harold Desbrowe-Annear, a life in architecture - a review|date = 2005|access-date = 11 October 2015|last = Underhill|first = Nancy}}</ref>


Edquist was awarded an Honorary Fellow at the [[Australian Institute of Architects]] in 2006, for services to architectural education and history. She is also an Honours Committee chair of the Victorian Chapter of the [[Australian Institute of Architects]].
Edquist was awarded an Honorary Fellow at the [[Australian Institute of Architects]] in 2006, for services to architectural education and history. She is also an Honours Committee chair of the Victorian Chapter of the [[Australian Institute of Architects]].
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She is a member of the [[International Confederation of Architectural Museums]], and a founding member of its Australian counterpart, icam Australia.
She is a member of the [[International Confederation of Architectural Museums]], and a founding member of its Australian counterpart, icam Australia.


In 2016 Edquist was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA).<ref>{{cite web|title=Harriet Edquist|url=https://www.humanities.org.au/our-fellows/fellows/?find_contact_id=3731&ffc_page=2&section_select=113&fellowType_select=0&bio_search&name_search&year_election&country_search=0&state_search=0|website=Australian Academy of the Humanities|accessdate=1 March 2018}}</ref>
In 2016 Edquist was elected a Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]] (FAHA).<ref>{{cite web |title=Harriet Edquist |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=918 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities}}</ref>

Edquist was appointed a [[Order of Australia|Member of the Order of Australia]] (AM) in the [[2020 Australia Day Honours]] for "significant service to architectural history and design, and to higher education".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2005269|title=Professor Harriet Edquist|website=honours.pmc.gov.au|access-date=2020-01-26}}</ref>


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Harriet Edquist
AM FAHA
NationalityAustralian
AwardsBates Smart National Award for Architecture in the Media
Academic background
EducationSt Catherine's School, Toorak
Alma materMonash University,
RMIT University
Academic work
InstitutionsRMIT University

Harriet Edquist AM FAHA is an Australian historian and curator, and Professor Emerita in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University in Melbourne.[1] Born and educated in Melbourne, she has published widely on and created numerous exhibitions in the field of Australian architecture, art and design history. She has also contributed to the production of Australian design knowledge as the founding editor of the RMIT Design Archives Journal and is a member of the Design Research Institute at RMIT University.

Education

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Edquist graduated from St Catherine's School, Toorak in 1965.[2] She then studied for a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Classics (1976)[3] from Monash University, and completed a PhD in Architectural History at RMIT University (2000).[4]

Academic career

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Edquist began her teaching career as a lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne, and specialised in Renaissance and modern art history.

In 1987, she joined RMIT University as editor (with Karen Burns) of Transition: Discourse on Architecture; a quarterly magazine produced by the Department of Architecture from 1979 until 2000 and dedicated to discourse on contemporary architectural practice and theory.[5] Serving from 1987 to 1991, the partnership of Edquist and Karen Burns stretched the critical range of this publication, arguing - as they wrote in their editorial for Transition 38 - that architectural discourse could extend "the boundaries of discussion to include all the arts and observations on the society".[6] They were both subsequently replaced as editors of Transition following a controversial 're-setting' of the publication's agenda, which was played out publicly through editorials and letters.[7]

In 1988, Edquist was appointed lecturer in Architectural History by RMIT University and from 2001 to 2007 served as Head of the School of Architecture and Design. She now holds the position of Professor Emerita at RMIT University. She was previously founder and director of the RMIT Design Archives and founding editor of the RMIT Design Archives Journal.[8]

She is currently a member (and was the past President from 2003 to 2005) of SAHANZ, the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand.[9] Professor Edquist is also a member of Docomomo Australia.

In June 2015, she became the Foundation President of Automotive Historians Australia.[10] This organisation focusses on Australian automative history and was launched alongside Shifting Gear: Design, Innovation and the Australian car, an exhibition curated by Edquist in conjunction with David Hurlston at the NGV.

Curated exhibitions

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Selected recent publications *

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  • 2014 'Architecture and design' In: Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth Century, Australian Women's Archives Project 2014, Australia[21]
  • 2013 'Frederick Romberg (1913-1992): an architectural survey' In: Frederick Romberg. An Architecture of Migration 1938-1975, Melbourne, Australia - with Spooner, M., Deverell, K., Banham, S., Ashton, K., and Tsolakis, L.
  • 2013 Building a new world: a history of the state library of Victoria 1853-1913, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia[22]
  • 2013 '"An architecture to excite an interest": grand visions for Melbourne's public library' In: The La Trobe Journal,[23] 52 - 61
  • 2013 'The architectural legacy of the Scots in the western district of Victoria, Australia' In: Architectural Heritage, 24, 67 - 85[24]
  • 2011 Michael O'Connell: The Lost Modernist, Melbourne Books, Melbourne, Australia[25]
  • 2010 Designing Place: An Archaeology of the Western District, Melbourne Books, Melbourne Australia - with Lisa Byrne and Laurene Vaughan
  • 2008 Pioneers of Modernism. The Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne Australia
  • 2004 Harold Desbrowe-Annear: a life in architecture, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, Australia[26]

Awards and honours

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In 1992, Edquist was awarded the Bates Smart National Award for Architecture in the Media, for her work editing Transition: Discourse on Architecture.[8] Edquist also shared this role with fellow architecture academic Karen Burns.

In 2004, she was also awarded a Bates Smart National Award for Architecture in the Media, for her work writing the book Harold Desbrowe-Annear: A Life in Architecture.[26][27]

Edquist was awarded an Honorary Fellow at the Australian Institute of Architects in 2006, for services to architectural education and history. She is also an Honours Committee chair of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects.

She is a member of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums, and a founding member of its Australian counterpart, icam Australia.

In 2016 Edquist was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA).[28]

Edquist was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2020 Australia Day Honours for "significant service to architectural history and design, and to higher education".[29]

References

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  1. ^ "Staff Profile: Professor Harriet Edquist". Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Nil Magnum Nisi Bonum". St Catherines School. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  3. ^ Edquist, Harriet (1976), The concept of otium in the pastorals of Theocritus and Virgil, retrieved 9 March 2021
  4. ^ Edquist, Harriett (2000), Harold Desbrowe-Annear, 1865–1933: A life in architecture, retrieved 9 March 2021
  5. ^ a b "Companion City | ACCA". www.accaonline.org.au. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  6. ^ Sawyer, Mark (2015). "Call-and-Response: Group Formation and Agency enacted through an Architectural Magazine, its Letters and Editorials" (PDF). Architecture Institutions and Change, Proceedings of SAHANZ. 32: 553. ISBN 978-0-646-94298-8. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  7. ^ Sawyer, Mark (2015). "Call-and-Response: Group Formation and Agency enacted through an Architectural Magazine, its Letters and Editorials" (PDF). Architecture Institutions and Change, Proceedings of SAHANZ. 32: 554. ISBN 978-0-646-94298-8. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  8. ^ a b "RMIT Academic Profile: Professor Harriet Edquist". Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  9. ^ "About SAHANZ". Sahanz. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  10. ^ "OFFICE BEARERS/ COMMITTEE". Automotive Historians Australia Inc. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  11. ^ "Historyonics: Australia's first public library". Radio National. 11 September 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  12. ^ Sorensen, Rosemary. "In search of the lost modernist of design". The Australian. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  13. ^ "Michael O'Connell: The Lost Modernist". ArchitectureAU. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  14. ^ "A skilled hand and cultivated mind: a guide to the architecture and art of RMIT University". English Worldwide. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  15. ^ "The architecture of Neil Clerehan". English Worldwide. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  16. ^ Edquist, Harriet (2002). Kurt Popper : from Vienna to Melbourne, architecture 1939-1975 / Harriet Edquist. Melbourne, Vic: RMIT School of Architecture + Design. ISBN 0864592256.
  17. ^ a b "Headlines". ArchitectureAU. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  18. ^ "Stanhill: 14 images by Wolfgang Sievers of Frederick Romberg's Stanhill Flats, 1951; event at Design and Art Australia Online". www.daao.org.au. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  19. ^ "George Baldessin: an exhibition of drawings event at Design and Art Australia Online". www.daao.org.au. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  20. ^ "Robin Boyd : the architect as critic / an exhibition at the La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria - Details - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  21. ^ Melbourne, The University of. "Architecture and Design - Theme - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia". www.womenaustralia.info. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  22. ^ "Building a new world: a history of the State Library of Victoria 1853–1913". State Library Victoria. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  23. ^ "Home - La Trobe Journal". latrobejournal.slv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  24. ^ Edquist, Harriet (1 November 2013). "The Architectural Legacy of the Scots in the Western District of Victoria, Australia". Architectural Heritage. 24 (1): 67–85. doi:10.3366/arch.2013.0046. ISSN 1350-7524.
  25. ^ "Michael O'Connell : the lost modernist / Harriet Edquist. - Version details - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  26. ^ a b Edquist, Harriet (2004). Harold Desbrowe-Annear: A Life in Architecture. Carlton, VIC, Australia: The Miegunyah Press. ISBN 9780522850529.
  27. ^ Underhill, Nancy (2005). "Harold Desbrowe-Annear, a life in architecture - a review". Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  28. ^ "Harriet Edquist". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  29. ^ "Professor Harriet Edquist". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
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