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So you want my arts job: Architectural historian and writer

As a child, Peter Andrew Barrett spent endless hours exploring Melbourne's rooftops and alleyways. Now he works to preserve and celebrate the city's heritage.

18 Sep 2023 9:00

Rochelle Siemienowicz

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Architectural historian and writer, Peter Andrew Barrett. Original photo by David Hannah Photography.

Peter Andrew Barrett is a Melbourne-based architectural and urban historian, heritage consultant and writer.

Barrett’s thesis on trans-Pacific exchange of architectural ideas, technologies and peoples between Australia and California in the 19th century, led him to work on heritage projects in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the mid 2000s.

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Rochelle Siemienowicz

Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer and editor. Her first book Fallen, a memoir was published in 2014 and her second, Double Happiness, a novel, in 2024. She has a PhD in Australian cinema and was previously a journalist at ScreenHub and ArtsHub. ou can find her on Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle or at Substack where she writes a fortnightly newsletter, The Fool and the Queen.