Harvard Club of Victoria

EXHIBITION OPENING AND TALK - JOHN ANDREWS: ARCHITECT OF UNCOMMON SENSE

FRIDAY 26TH JULY 6:30-8:30PM

Celebration of the late Harvard-educated Australian titan of 20th century architecture
 

We warmly invite Harvard Club of Victoria members and Harvard alumni to the special public opening of this showcase of the globally influential, Harvard-educated Australian architect, John Andrews. Following successful exhibitions at Harvard‘s Graduate School of Design and the University of Sydney, this survey and celebration of the life and continuing impact of John Andrews and his work runs from the 27th July until the 30th August at the Melbourne School of Design.
 

The opening of this exhibition on the 26th July will feature not only co-curators Paul Walker, Professor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne and Kevin Liu, graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, but also Noritaka Minami, Associate Professor of Photography in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Loyola University, Chicago. Professor Minami will deliver a public address titled "Notes on Impermanence: the Works of John Andrews, Nakagin Capsule Tower, and Photography". His photographs of John Andrews' buildings in Australia, the US and Canada feature in the book John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense (Harvard Design Press, 2023) and also in this exhibition.

DATE: Friday 26th July 2024
TIME: 6:30-8:30pm (6:30pm for public lecture and 7:30pm for exhibition launch)
VENUE: Glyn Davis Building / Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne
https://msd.unimelb.edu.au/events/exhibitions/john-andrews-exhibition/exhibition-opening-and-talk
 

The Harvard Club of Victoria is also working on an informal Harvard / GSD dinner towards the end of August, taking the opportunity of this exhibition to bring together its co-curators with the local GSD and Harvard-affiliated community, including Professor Philip Goad, Chair of Architecture at The University of Melbourne, and Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard from 2019-2020.