Biography

Professor Howard Tanner is a Sydney-based architect, a practice director at award-winning Tanner Architects, who teaches part-time at the University of Canberra.  Tanner Architects are well known for their houses and educational buildings; heritage projects include:

• First heritage townscape studies:
    -  Port Fairy, Victoria 1979 (RAIA Award)
    -  Braidwood, NSW 1977 (RAIA Award)
• Sydney Town Hall restoration 1991, 2010 (RAIA Awards)
• New Zealand Parliament buildings 1996 (NZIA Award)
• Brisbane City Hall restoration (current)
  

Howard was a lecturer/senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Sydney 1975-85, and is well known for his books and exhibitions on architectural, landscape and social history topics. These include:

Publications

• Australian Housing in the Seventies (Ure Smith 1975)
• Restoring Old Australian Houses and Buildings (Macmillan 1975)
• The Great Gardens of Australia (Macmillan 1976)
• Building The Sydney Harbour Bridge – The Photography of Henri Mallard (Sun Books 1976)
• Architects of Australia (Macmillan 1981)
• Towards an Australian Garden (Valadon 1983)
• An Edwardian Summer : Sydney and beyond through the lens of Arthur Wigram Allen (Historic Houses Trust 2010)
  

• ‘Converting the Wilderness: The Art of Gardening in Colonial Australia’ : travelling exhibition 1979 – 1981
• ‘Thoroughly Modern Sydney’ : Museum of Sydney, 2006
• ‘An Edwardian Summer’ Arthur Wigram Allen, Photographer : Museum of Sydney, 2010
  

Howard was chairman of the Heritage Council on NSW 1993-96, and National President of the Australian Institute of Architects 2008-09.  He has had a significant involvement with the Historic Houses Trust of NSW, is a member of the Commonwealth’s Australian Heritage Council, and is a director of Insurance Brokers Limited.

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