School of Humanities

School of Humanities

assoc prof ian lochheadDr Ian Lochhead

Position

Associate Professor in Art History

Qualifications

MA (Auck), PhD (Bryn Mawr)

Room

Room 416, level 4, History building

Contact Details

Phone: +64 3 366 7001
Internal Phone: 8239
Email: ian.lochhead@canterbury.ac.nz

 

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Robie House
Chicago, 1909
Frank Lloyd Wright
Postal address:
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, New Zealand

Background

Ian Lochhead grew up in Canterbury, attended secondary school in Christchurch and then studied Art History at the University of Auckland and at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.  He has taught at the University of Canterbury since 1981.  In 2000 he was Laing Distinguished Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

Undergraduate Courses

Graduate Courses

For up-to-date details of Ian Lochhead's research interests and publications, please visit his UC Research Profile.

Research

Current research focuses on twentieth-century New Zealand architecture and issues of national identity the Gothic Revival in New Zealand and architectural heritage conservation.

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Ohinetahi
Governors Bay, c 1858 and 1866

School Administration

Programme Convener
Library Liaison

Recent Publications

  • A Dream of Spires: Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival.  Canterbury University Press, 1999

  • In The Heart of the Bush: Photographing the Catlins in 1906-7.  The Journal of New Zealand Art History, 25, 2004: 13-22

  • Corrugated Iron Gothic.  Gothic In New Zealand: the Dark Side of Kiwi Culture, ed. Jenny Lawn,  Dunedin, 2006,:80-89

  • A Drama in Three Acts: The Architecture of the Theatre Royal.  The Theatre Royal Christchurch: An Illustrated Hisory.  Christchurch, 2008:  39-50

  • Pascoe House; Lyttelton Tunnel Administration Building; Manchester Unity Building; Isard House; Tonbridge Mews, in Long Live the Modern: New Zealand’s New Architecture, 1904-1984, ed. Julia Gatley, Auckland University Press 2008: 48, 140, 155, 172, 195

  • Constructing the Modern City: Post War Canterbury Architecture 1945-1970. (with Jessica Halliday) School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury,  Christchurch, 2008