Lewi's research focuses on heritage and placemaking, Australian 20C architecture, with particular expertise in the history of Western Australian architecture. Her work in these fields has often experimented with and reflected upon new media including the design of history and heritage digital applications. She is the current vice-chair of DOCOMOMO Australia. She has recently co-led an international research project titled Citizen Heritage, funded by the Australian Research Council. A major output has been the co-design and implementation of a digital platform for sharing stories and memories PastPort. She is currently a co-lead investigator on a project titled ''Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities', funded by the Australian Research Council. Lewi was an historical advisor and contributor to the Australian Architecture exhibition and book at the Venice Biennale in 2016 on 'The Pool', and has published many articles on the history of swimming pools in Australia.
Selected publications
Lewi, Hannah. 'Paradoxes in the Conservation of Modernism' in Henket, and Heynen. Back from Utopia : The Challenge of the Modern Movement. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2002.
Lewi, Hannah 'Designing a virtual museum of digital heritage’, in, New Heritage: new media and cultural heritage, Y Kalay, T Kvan and J Affleck, London: Routledge Press, 2007.
Lewi, Hannah and David. Nichols. '. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2010.
Lewi, Hannah and Wally Smith. "Hand-held Histories: Using Digital Archival Documents on Architectural Tours." Architectural Research Quarterly 15, no. 1 : 69-77.
Lewi, Hannah ‘Back to School: understanding the evidential value of the modern documentary’, in TheJournal of Architecture, Routledge, Vol 20:2, 193-214., 2015.
Lewi, Hannah and Cameron Logan, ‘A Stimulus for Education: Global Economic Events and the Design of Australian Schools’ in Economy and Architecture:, eds J Odgers, M McVikar, S Kite, London: Routledge, 2015.
Lewi Hannah, W Smith, A Murray and S Cooke, ‘Visitor, Contributor and Conversationalist: multiple digital identities of the heritage citizen’, Historic Environment Journal, special issue ‘Citizen Heritage’, Vol 28: No 2, 2016.
Lewi, Hannah and A Peckham ‘Transcribing The Journal of Architecture: research, representation and publication 2004–2013’, The Journal of Architecture, Routledge, 20th anniversary anthology, Vol 21: 4, 479-489, 2016.
Lewi, Hannah and Andrew Saniga. "Carte Blanche on Campus?" Fabrications 27, no. 3 : 322-51.
W Smith, H Lewi & D Nichols, 'PastPort: reflections on the design of a mobile application for local history sharing in Port Melbourne', Australian Historical Studies 49, no. 1, 2018.
Lewi, Hannah ‘A Return to the Production of Annotation’ in Production Sites: Resituating the Culture of Architectural Knowledge, S Psarra, London: Routledge, 2019.
Lewi, Hannah and Wally Smith, Steve Cooke and Dirk vom Lehn. The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites. Routledge in press 2019.
