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John Frederick Harris OBE (born 1931) is an English curator, historian of architecture, gardens and architectural drawings, and the author of more than 25 books and catalogues, and 200 articles. He is a Fellow and Curator Emeritus of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, founding Trustee of SAVE Britain's Heritage and SAVE Europe's Heritage, and founding member and Honorary Life President of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums.

Career

John Harris left school at the age of 14 in 1946. He travelled and took on miscellaneous jobs, before starting his proper career in 1954 working in an antiques shop, Collin and Winslow.^[1] In 1956 he joined the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Library and Drawings Collection in London, becoming curator of its British Architectural Library's Drawings Collection from 1960 to 1986.^[2] This included the establishment in 1972 of a permanent home for the Drawings Collection in the James Adam designed house at 21 Portman Square (moved to the V&A Henry Cole Wing in 2002), next door to and sharing with the Courtauld Institute at Home House, 20 Portman Square (moved to Somerset House in 1989). Harris founded and organised 42 exhibitions at the Heinz Gallery, on the ground floor of 21 Portman Square, opened in 1972, designed by Stefan Buzas and Alan Irvine, given by Mr and Mrs Henry J Heinz II,^[3] being the first purpose built gallery for the display of

architectural drawings in the English speaking world.^[4] The Gallery was purchased in 2000 by the Irish Architectural Archive and moved in 2003-4 to the ground floor of their relocated premises at 45 Merrion Square, Dublin, which opened to the public in 2005.^[1] RIBA's Drawings Collection Gallery was re-established in 2004 as part of the joint V&A and RIBA Architecture Partnership, creating the Architecture Gallery in Room 128 at the V&A.

Harris was a co-curator of the seminal Destruction of the Country House exhibition held at the V&A in 1974, with Sir Roy Strong and Marcus Binney, which gave impetus to the movement to conserve British country houses^[5] and the founding in 1975 of SAVE Britain's Heritage. He was editor of Studies in Architecture 1976–99. In 1996 he was a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Center, Getty Villa, Santa Monica.^[6] Harris also played a crucial role in the establishment of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and the Heinz Architecture Centre in the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.^[7] He was a member for ten years of Mr Paul Mellon's London Acquisitions Committee. Harris worked on the Victoria and Albert Primary Galleries Project (1996–2001). He has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He is an expert on Palladian architecture, and has written about, among many others, Lord Burlington, William Kent and Sir William Chambers.

Harris is married to American historian and author Dr Eileen Harris (from circa 1961), has a son, Lucian Guthrie, and a daughter, Georgina, and lives in London and Badminton, Gloucestershire.

Bibliography

Books

Editor

Exhibition catalogues

Essays, chapters and introductions

Lectures

References

1. ^¹Building Design Online, Moving Stories article by John Harris on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 31 October 2007
2. ^Garden Visit and Travel Guide. Retrieved 31 October 2007
3. ^Design 1972 Journal article Architecture in embryo {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717160928/http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/diad/article.php?year=1972&title=283&article=d.283.29 |date=17 July 2011 }} retrieved 12 November 2007
4. ^Irish Architectural Archive, Annual Report 2000, page 16 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118193634/http://iarc.ie/annual_reports/iaa_annual_report_2000.pdf |date=18 November 2007 }} retrieved 12 November 2007
5. ^Wikipedia on Marcus Binney. Retrieved 31 October 2007
6. ^Yale University Press, 1996 publication. Retrieved 31 October 2007
7. ^Trustees of SAVE Europe's Heritage {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081102100135/http://www.savebritainsheritage.org/english/english.htm |date=2 November 2008 }} retrieved 31 October 2007
8. ^Forty years since The Destruction of the Country House exhibition at the V&A Museum, 1974.

External links

Photos of John Harris and the Heinz Gallery, in his Moving Stories article, BD Magazine 24 August 2007

Salvo News book review and book launch of Moving Rooms at Lassco on 24 October 2007 by Thornton Kay

The Times book review of Moving Rooms, by Marcus Binney, 11 September 2007

The Guardian book review of Moving Rooms, by Sir Simon Jenkins, 18 August 2007

National Portrait Gallery, portrait of John Harris by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda, 1985