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Associate Professor Christine Garnaut

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Associate Professor Christine Garnaut

Christine Garnaut is Associate Research Professor in Planning and Architectural History. She is Director of the Architecture Museum in the School of Art, Architecture and Design and of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Research Centre at UniSA.

An historian, Assoc Prof Garnaut's research focuses on Australian twentieth century planning and architectural history. She is particularly interested in the contemporary application of historical ideas, for example in the conservation and management of heritage places. Her book Colonel Light Gardens: model garden suburb (Sydney: Crossing Press, 1999, reprinted 2006), based on her PhD thesis, was the first published account of a planned Australian garden suburb. Her... Read more

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Christine Garnaut is Associate Research Professor in Planning and Architectural History. She is Director of the Architecture Museum in the School of Art, Architecture and Design and of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Research Centre at UniSA.

An historian, Assoc Prof Garnaut's research focuses on Australian twentieth century planning and architectural history. She is particularly interested in the contemporary application of historical ideas, for example in the conservation and management of heritage places. Her book Colonel Light Gardens: model garden suburb (Sydney: Crossing Press, 1999, reprinted 2006), based on her PhD thesis, was the first published account of a planned Australian garden suburb. Her doctoral research and book informed objectives and policies for the Colonel Light Gardens Plan Amendment Report (PAR) and Conservation Management Plan. She has been recognised for her contribution to the PAR, winning the inaugural Edmund Wright Heritage Award (2003) together with Mitcham Council and the Colonel Light Gardens Historical Society.

Assoc Prof Garnaut has undertaken a variety of projects funded by the ARC and other government and industry sources. SA Department of Water (formerly Environment and Heritage) funding led to the development of an online biographical database, Architects of South Australia, managed by the Architecture Museum, and to the Architecture Museum monograph series.  Assoc Prof Garnaut is President of the International Planning History Society (2018-22) and a member of the Board of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums.

  • Architecture Museum
  • Architects of South Australia
  • Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute at UniSA
  • International Planning History Society
  • International Confederation of Architectural Museums
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Professional Associations

International Planning History Society

Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand

Professional Historians Association (SA)

Oral History Association of Australia (SA Branch)

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Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia

  • Bachelor of Arts Flinders University

  • Bachelor of Arts Flinders University

  • Diploma of Education Flinders University

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Research

Research themes

  • Scarce resources
  • Transforming societies

Research focus

  • Historical Studies
  • Urban and Regional Planning
  • Built Environment and Design
  • History and Archaeology
  • History and Philosophy of Specific Fields

Highlights

  • Australian 20th century planned environments - urban, rural and remote settings
  • Australian 20th century architectural history
  • Australian university campus planning
  • Women and planning in 20th century Australia
  • Architectural and built environment archives
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Projects

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  • Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities, ARC - Discovery Projects, 01/01/2016 - 31/12/2019

  • Framework Trial - ADAR: NF project, Natspec, 17/09/2018 - 31/07/2019

  • DEH South Australian built heritage research fellowship, Department for Environment & Heritage SA, 01/06/2009 - 31/12/2016

  • SA heritage register assessments and research, Department of Environment, Heritage & Aboriginal Affairs, 01/07/2009 - 31/12/2016

  • Build me a city, Arts SA, 01/05/2011 - 01/05/2013

  • Hassell PhD project, Hassell Scholarship, 24/08/2009 - 01/03/2012

  • The history of South Australian firm Russell and Yelland architects, History Trust of South Australia, 01/02/2011 - 30/11/2011

  • Adelaide's urban social history, History Trust of South Australia, 04/01/2011 - 31/10/2011

  • Hassells Scholarship, Hassells, 18/02/2008 - 01/09/2011

  • Russell and Yelland history, Russell and Yelland, 01/02/2010 - 28/08/2011

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Outputs

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Year Output
2018

Freestone, R & Garnaut, C 2018, 'Beginnings: the evolution of metropolitan planning to the late twentieth century', Planning Metropolitan Australia, Routledge, UK, ch. 2, pp. 26-50.

Open access
2016

Garnaut, C & Avey, S 2016, ''A peep from the dome' Adelaide in 1887', in C Garnaut, J Collins and B Jolly (eds), Adelaide's Jubilee International Exhibition 1887-1888, Crossing Press, Australia, ch. 6, pp. 85-93.

2016

Garnaut, C 2016, 'Flora Crockett Stephenson (1914-1979): a life and professional partnership in planning', Planning Perspectives, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 505-531.

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2012

Garnaut, C 2012, 'Gordon Stephenson and University planning: a pleasurable professional pursuit', Town Planning Review, vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 377-395.

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2012

Garnaut, C, Freestone, R & Iwanicki, I 2012, 'Cold War heritage and the planned community: Woomera Village in outback Australia', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 541-563.

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Books

Year Output
2016

Garnaut, C, Collins, J & Jolly, B 2016, Adelaide's Jubilee International Exhibition 1887-1888: the event, the building, the legacy, Crossing Press, Sydney, Australia.

2013

Collins, JA & Garnaut, CM 2013, 'Not for ourselves alone' : the South Australian Home Builders' Club, 1945-1965, Architecture Museum, Australia.

Chapters

Year Output
2018

Freestone, R & Garnaut, C 2018, 'Beginnings: the evolution of metropolitan planning to the late twentieth century', Planning Metropolitan Australia, Routledge, UK, ch. 2, pp. 26-50.

Open access
2017

Freestone, R, Garnaut, C & Nichols, D 2017, 'Tertiary education and postwar reconstruction: the first Australian planning programs', in A Frank & C Silver (eds), Urban planning education, 1st ed., Springer, Switzerland, ch. 6, pp. 101-118.

2017

Garnaut, C 2017, 'Town planning in the garden city of the south: the state of play to 1914', in M Oppenheimer et al (eds), South Australia on the Eve of War, Wakefield Press, South Australia, ch. 7, pp. 115-136.

2016

Garnaut, C & Avey, S 2016, ''A peep from the dome' Adelaide in 1887', in C Garnaut, J Collins and B Jolly (eds), Adelaide's Jubilee International Exhibition 1887-1888, Crossing Press, Australia, ch. 6, pp. 85-93.

2012

Cys, J & Garnaut, CM 2012, 'Evidence through research', Design South Australia, Integrated Design Commission SA, in association with Wakefield Press, Adelaide, pp. 140-143.

2009

Garnaut, CM & Round, KA 2009, ''Pedlers' of new ideas': promoting town planning in South Australia 1914-1920', in R Freestone (ed.), Cities, Citizens and Environmental Reform: histories of Australian Town Planning Associations, Sydney University Press, Sydney, ch. 4, pp. 120-127.

2009

Garnaut, CM & Round, KA 2009, ''The kaleidoscope of town planning': planning advocacy in postwar South Australia', in R Freestone (ed.), Cities, citizens and environmental reform : histories of Australian town planning associations, Sydney University Press, Sydney, N.S.W., ch. 7, pp. 203-234.

2008

Garnaut, CM 2008, 'The Adelaide Parklands and the endurance of the greenbelt idea in South Australia', in M arco Amati, Urban Greenbelts int he twenty-first century, Ashgate, Hampshire, England, pp. 107-128.

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Year Output
2016

Garnaut, C 2016, 'Flora Crockett Stephenson (1914-1979): a life and professional partnership in planning', Planning Perspectives, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 505-531.

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2014

Garnaut, CM 2014, 'The planning and design of Murdoch University : the foundation years', Circa: the Journal of Professional Historians, vol. 4, pp. 26-37.

2012

Garnaut, C 2012, 'Gordon Stephenson and University planning: a pleasurable professional pursuit', Town Planning Review, vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 377-395.

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2012

Garnaut, C 2012, 'ICAM Australasia: supporting the development and promotion of architectural and allied collections in Australia and New Zealand', Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 122-126.

2012

Garnaut, C, Freestone, R & Iwanicki, I 2012, 'Cold War heritage and the planned community: Woomera Village in outback Australia', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 541-563.

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2012

Garnaut, CM 2012, 'The Architecture Museum, School Of Art, Architecture and Design, University Of South Australia', Museums Australia Magazine, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 24-28.

2012

Garnaut, CM 2012, 'icam Australasia: a regional network of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums', Museums Australia Magazine, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 28-29.

2012

Hutchings, AWJ & Garnaut, CM 2012, 'The private development company and the building of planned communities in post-war South Australia : Reid Murray developments, Realty Development Corporation and their successors', Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, vol. 40, pp. 96-116.

2011

Garnaut, CM & Collins, JA 2011, 'Engraving the past: architectural prints from the Chamberlin collection', Place: Official Publication of the Australian Institute of Architects (SA), September, pp. 9.

2011

Garnaut, CM 2011, 'S'adapter aux circumstances. Defis, opportunities pour les principes d'acquistion d'archives d'architecture en Australie (-Meridionale)', Colonnes, vol. 27, no. June, pp. 44-46.

2010

Collins, J, Lustri, S, Bird, L & Garnaut, C 2010, 'Civic spaces for children: playground design in twentieth century South Australia', Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, vol. 38, pp. 73-92.

2010

McDougall, A & Garnaut, C 2010, 'Navigating the personal to create the public: in search of South Australian architects', Oral History Association Of Australia Journal, vol. 32, pp. 34-42.

2009

Hutchings, AWJ & Garnaut, CM 2009, 'Suburban design in metropolitan Adelaide: principles and products', Australian Planner, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 44-52.

2008

Freestone, R, Marsden, S & Garnaut, CM 2008, 'A Methodology for Assessing the Heritage of Planned Urban Environments: An Australian Study of National Heritage Values', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 156-175.

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Conferences

Year Output
2018

Garnaut, C 2018, 'A vision for arts led urban renewal in Adelaide and the City West Campus of the University of South Australia', The 18th International Planning History Society Conference, International Planning History Society, pp. 1-10.

Open access
2018

Garnaut, C 2018, 'Remaking Adelaide's West End: The contributions of the University of South Australia's City West Campus, stage one', in I, McShane, E, Taylor, L, Porter et al (eds), 14th Australasian urban history planning history conference, Australasian Urban History Planning History Group & RMIT University, pp. 168-177.

Open access
2016

Garnaut, CM, Collins, J, Bird, LM & Anderson, E 2016, 'Cherished sites of remembrance: Soldiers' memorial gardens', in C Bosman & A Dedekorkut-Howes (eds), UHPH 2016 Icons: The Making, Meaning and Undoing of Urban Icons and Iconic Cities: 13th Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference, Australasian Urban History/Planning History Group and Griffith University, pp. 139-152.

Open access
2015

Garnaut, C 2015, 'An "innovation" at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries : a town planning course in the architecture department 1949-1955', in P Hogben & J O'Callaghan (eds), 32nd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, SAHANZ, vol. 32, pp. 194-205.

Open access
2014

Freestone, R, Garnaut, CM & Nichols, D 2014, 'The beginnings of tertiary planning education in Australia 1949-1950', in C Silver & D Zhu (eds), 16th International planning history society conference, University of Florida, Florida, pp. 389-403.

Open access
2014

Garnaut, CM 2014, 'Envisioning and planning the future of Adelaide's metropolitan foreshore : from marine boulevard to coast park', in C Silver & D Zhu (eds), 16th International planning history society conference, University of Florida, Florida, pp. 323-339.

Open access
2012

Garnaut, CM 2012, 'Flora Crockett Stephenson (1914-1979): forty years of collaborations in planning', 15th International Planning History Society Conference (IPHS 2012), Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, pp. 1-15.

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2011

Garnaut, CM 2011, 'Gordon Stephenson and the Radburn Idea in University Planning', 3rd World Planning Schools Conference: WPSC2011, University of Western Australia, pp. 1-14.

Open access
2010

Bird, LM & Garnaut, C 2010, 'Planning for playgrounds: town planning and the supervised children's playgrounds in twentieth century South Australia', Green fields, brown fields, new fields: the 10th Australasian Urban History, Planning History conference, University of Melbourne, pp. 28-43.

2010

Garnaut, C 2010, 'Gordon Stephenson and campus planning in Australia', in NZ Glersoy et al. (eds), 14th International Planning History Society Conference, Istanbul Technical University, pp. 35-48.

2010

Garnaut, C, Freestone, R & Iwanicki, I 2010, 'Home on the Range: the planning and design of Woomera Village, 1947-2009', 10th Australasian Urban History, Planning History Conference: Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields, University of Melbourne, pp. 145-158.

2009

Garnaut, CM 2009, ''Everyone was for bungalows': suburban expansion and the rise of the bungalow in post-World War 1 South Australia', The Pacific Connection: trade, travel and technology transfer, University of Melbourne, pp. 150-156.

2009

Nichols, D & Garnaut, CM 2009, 'Social innovation on the Murray irrigation frontier: the 1890s to the 1920s and beyond', in Miles Lewis (ed.), The Pacific Connection: trade, travel and technology transfer, University of Melbourne, pp. 130-157.

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2008

Garnaut, CM & Round, KA 2008, ''Peddlers of New Ideas': The South Australian Town Planning and Housing Association, 1914-1924', in Lynette Finch, University of the Sunshine Coast.

2008

Garnaut, CM & Round, KA 2008, ''The Kaleidoscope of Town Planning', the Town and Country Planning Association and Planning Advocacy in Post-war South Australia', in Christopher Silver, International Planning History Society, pp. 878-890.

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  • Australian 20th century planned environments - urban, rural and remote settings
  • Australian 20th century architectural history
  • Australian university campus planning
  • Women and planning in 20th century Australia
  • Architectural and built environment archives
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External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Highlights

President, International Planning History Society

Convenor, icam Australasia (International Confederation of Architectural Museums regional network)

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Collaborations

Organisation Country
Professional Historians Association (South Australia) Inc. AUSTRALIA
University of Melbourne AUSTRALIA
University of New South Wales AUSTRALIA
University of Queensland AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia AUSTRALIA
University of Sydney AUSTRALIA
University of Tasmania AUSTRALIA
University of the Sunshine Coast AUSTRALIA
University of Western Australia AUSTRALIA
University of Wisconsin-Madison UNITED STATES
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Engagement/recognition Year

Special Commendation, Excellence in Graduate Research Leadership

Australian Council of Graduate Research

2018

Board Member

International Confederation of Architectural Museums

2017

Member

Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand

2017

Member

Professional Historians Association, South Australia Branch

2017

Member

Oral History Association of Australia, South Australia Branch

2017

Member

International Confederation of Architectural Museums

2017

Vice-President and President Elect

International Planning History Society

2017

Board Member

International Confederation of Architectural Museums

2016

Member

International Confederation of Architectural Museums

2016

Vice-President and President Elect

International Planning History Society

2016

Board Member

International Confederation of Architectural Museums

2015

Executive Member

Council of the International Planning History Society

2015

Member

International Confederation of Architectural Museums

2015

Vice-President and President Elect

International Planning History Society

2015

Board Member

International Confederation of Architectural Museums

2014

Vice-president and President elect

International Planning History Society

2014

Editorial Board Member

Planning Perspectives

2011
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Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

  • Occasional teaching in the fields of South Australian architectural and planning history and the conservation and management of heritage places.
  • Utilising archival sources in research.
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Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title Student status
A history of early building documentation Current
A universal evaluation framework for the improvement of water’s edge public spaces Current
Urban development by approach of landscape urbanism in suburban micro landscapes Current
A strategic waste management framework and tool for the development of zero waste cities Completed
Acres of Adelaide: everyday people, processes and patterns in a settler-colonial urban plan 1836-1881  Completed
Building the Education Revolution: a revolution or a missed opportunity? Completed
Collaborative urban design for stakeholder engagement in world cultural heritage conservation: a practical study in the context of the citadel wall in Hue, Vietnam Completed
Exploring the written wor(l)d: writing as a spatial practice Completed
Planning for open space in postwar South Australia: open space benefits and local open space systems at Elizabeth, Noarlunga and Golden Grove Completed
The architectural practice as a professional service firm: HASSELL Completed
The role of cultural heritage in the sustainability of remote planned communities, with a case study of Woomera, Australia Completed
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