Past Committee Member

Timothy Hubbard is a director of Heritage Matters Pty Ltd, consultants in the conservation of historic buildings, gardens, sites and landscapes who are based at Port Fairy in the south-west of Victoria. Alone and in association he has authored over eighty heritage studies, conservation management plans and research reports. With Annabel Neylon and Justin Francis, he is heritage adviser to Glenelg, Moyne, Southern Grampians, Colac-Otway and Corangamite Shires, to the City of Warrnambool and to the Borough of Queenscliffe.

Before establishing his own practice in 1988, he worked with the Department of Planning during the formative years of the Historic Buildings Council and conservation planning controls under local planning schemes. He is a Fellow of the RAIA and from 1994 to 1998 he was a member of the RAIA Victorian Chapter Council. He has been a guest editor for Architect and has been the Chairman of the Conservation category for the Institute’s Awards. He was the founding chairman of the RAIA (Vic) Heritage Committee and wrote the Institute’s national Heritage Policy. From 1999 until 2002, he was an alternate member to the Heritage Council of Victoria and has written articles for its newsletter Inherit. In 2005, he was convenor of the Australia ICOMOS national conference Corrugations: the Romance and Reality of Historic Roads. He was awarded the inaugural ISSI Leslie M. Perrott Travelling Fellowship to study historic roads in the US, UK and Europe in 2006.

For many years, Timothy Hubbard has led cultural tourism tours within Victoria, interstate, to Norfolk Island and overseas. He is currently restoring Old St Andrews, the former Presbyterian Church and Manse at Port Fairy where he now lives. In 1992, he completed a Masters thesis on House Museums and Land Use Planning. He passed his Ph.D. in architectural history at Deakin University in 2003, which was completed with the assistance of an Australian Postgraduate Award. The thesis, about the Italianate villa in the colonial landscape, is titled Towering Over All. His academic research continues into the Tasmanian architects, William Archer and James Blackburn.