UoM-ITB Guest Lecture Series 2022 presents: Prof. Julie Willis – Why do Architects Need to Learn History?

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Degree and diploma courses in Architecture have usually included the study of architectural history as a foundational component. Indeed, early programs utilised architectural history as the means by which design and composition were learnt, until the modern movement challenged this approach, apparently spurning lessons from the past. A new appreciation of architectural history returned with post-modernism as well as critical regionalism.

Prof. Julie Willis will elaborate on this topic in her upcoming lecture. She will explore the changing importance of architectural history in architectural education and discuss why looking to the past can inflect, inform and improve contemporary design.

This lecture is open to all SAPPD students. It is compulsory for students of AR5190 and AR6095, and is recommended for students of AR4090.

This guest lecture is part of the collaboration between the School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development (SAPPD), ITB and the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP), The University of Melbourne.