John Harrison is a Historic Buildings Architect collaborating with ArCHIAM since 2010.
John Harrison
Honorary Research Fellow
Biography
John Harrison graduated from the School of Architecture and the Department of Civic Design at the University of Liverpool, and then worked on historic buildings in local government and architectural practise. For the last thirty years he has travelled and worked in India, Pakistan, China and Nepal, documenting and restoring the buildings of Tibet and the Himalaya.
He has written and lectured on his survey and building work in the Himalaya, and produced and toured three exhibitions. He is the author of ‘The LAMO Centre: Restoration and adaptive reuse in Leh Old Town’, and co-author of a monograph on a Tibetan temple in Mustang, Nepal. He is currently writing a book on the architecture of Mustang.
When not in the Himalaya he lives in Snowdonia in a stone cottage which he has been restoring since 1969.
Research, scholarly and professional interests
- Tibetan architecture
- Vernacular architecture of the Himalaya
- Urban conservation
- Historic buildings restoration
Affiliations
Present
- University of Liverpool
Past
- Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Areas of expertise
- Vernacular Architecture
