Dirk Bolt
| Dirk Bolt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1930 Groningen |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Alma mater |
Delft University of Technology |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Buildings |
Christ College, Hobart |
Delft University of Technology
Hobart Technical College
Christ College, Hobart
Murray Street State Offices, Hobart
Dirk Bolt (born 1930) is a Dutch-born architect who is best known for his post-Second World War Australian modernist architecture and his later career as an academic and consultant that applied sustainable, equitable and humane principles to town planning.
His most notable buildings include the Sandy Bay Campus buildings of Christ College at the University of Tasmania and the Murray Street State Offices in Central Hobart.
Dirk Bolt was born in Groningen in 1930.
He commenced his studies in architecture at the Delft University of Technology, but moved to Australia in 1951, and finished his qualifications as an architect and town planner at Hobart Technical College. He designed many innovative residential and commercial buildings in Hobart and Canberra. In Canberra, where he worked between 1964 and 1971, he also consulted to the National Capital Development Commission, providing advice on planning of the growing capital. The Australian Institute of Architects (ACT) is in the process of publishing a monograph on his architectural and town planning work in Canberra.
In the 1970s, he worked for international development organisations in Africa and Asia, including the UN Office of Technical Cooperation. He consulted to many agencies and governments on planning, development and sustainability.
He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Urban Design at the University of Auckland, where he received a PhD in town planning in 1984. His thesis was concerned with sustainable, equitable and humane town planning. This is also reflected in his later work that includes low-energy aspects of planning, providing tools for planning in mega-cities in developing countries, and affordable residential modular construction using timber. In 1987, he returned to the Netherlands and later became professor and head of Urban Planning at the University of Twente.
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