Jarrod Haberfield
Doctor of Philosophy candidate
Architecture
Biography
Jarrod is a registered architect who has worked in both large and small practices, working principally on high-end residential projects. In his role as co-founder and director of Melbourne multi-disciplnary practice, Molecule, he ran numerous projects from inception to completion, including a number where the incorporation of art collections brought a particular focus to the briefing and design processes. Working on projects at the intersection of architecture and museology sponsored Jarrod's deep interest in how art and architecture relate to and influence each other - an interest at the centre of his doctoral research project into the emergence of the house-museum typology.
Alongside his practice interests, Jarrod is a passionate and experienced educator who has been involved as design tutor (University of Melbourne, since 2008), design critic (University of Melbourne, Monash University and Swinburne University, since 2008), and sessional tutor assisting the delivery of the Master of Architecture elective Critical & Curatorial Practices in Design (since 2019).
Thesis
Towards a New Private: The Emergence of the House-Museum Typology
The idiosyncrasy of the house-museum typology is implicit in its compound moniker: ‘house’ and ‘museum’ are understood in typological and programmatic terms as antithetical, not symbiotic, and thus the reconciliation of their competing objectives inevitably summons a process of hybridisation. The house is private, domestic, intimate; the museum is public, civic, formal. The tension in reconciling these polarities is at the heart of this project. In exploring the commissioning, design and realisation of a select group of house-museum case study projects from the western world, the research explores via an architectural lens – and a lifecycle structure – how the highly complex and often contradictory requirements of a hybrid building are resolved.
Relevant for practitioners, academics and educators, the research seeks to broaden and deepen our understanding of this hitherto unexplored corner of cultural engagement and architectural design, locating common pitfalls and proven strategies from case study projects in the context of current literature in the fields of architecture and museology. The result is an original and crucial contribution to cross-disciplinary knowledge sited at the nexus of art and architecture.