GEOFF STENNETT
Installation photograph of Geoff Stennett, The Theatre at New Paphos, Plan of Excavations, 2010. From the exhibition Travellers from Australia, exhibited at the Pailia Ilektriki, Ktima Pafos, Cyprus, 2-15 October, as part of the official program of the Pafos2017 European Capital of Culture. Photo: Shelley Webster 2017.
Biography
Since graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Technology Sydney, Geoff Stennett has worked on a wide range of architectural building types, acquiring a broad knowledge of both the architectural profession and construction industry, with expertise in all facets of building design and on-site construction procedures. From the mid-1990s he has gained extensive experience in the conservation of heritage listed buildings, combining historical research, building fabric restoration, adaptive reuse and conservation and management of culturally significant places. He has prepared Conservation Management Plans for a number of prominent public buildings, as well as developing strategies for their historical interpretation.
Stennett has shared in a number of awards for various conservation projects including in 2007 the RAIA NSW Chapter Greenway Award for Adaptive Reuse; in 2010 the National Trust Award Corporate /Government category and in 2014, the Marrickville Council’s Medal for Conservation and Adaptive Reuse.
He first gained experience working as an architect on an archaeological site at the University of Sydney excavation at Pella in Jordan in 1993. Since 1996, for the Department of Archaeology at The University of Sydney, he has been the supervising architect for the Paphos Theatre Archaeological Project. Since its first beginnings in 1996, Geoff has seen an ever increasing uptake in the use of digital technologies at the excavation, from capturing and documenting archaeological evidence, to the presentation of results in CAD and Virtual Reality (VR) to a wider audience. Geoff is presently Senior Heritage Architect, at OCP Architects Pty Ltd Sydney.