Cowan, Henry J

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Authority Biography/Administrative HistoryHenry J COWAN

Housing: 1 box Period: 1950-1976

Henry J Cowan is Professor Emeritus of Architectural Sciences at the University of Sydney. In 1957, at the suggestion of the Minister for Israel, Mordecai Norock, he and Samuel Lipson, architect, founded the Technion Society of Australia. It met four times a year to discuss matters of professional or Israeli concern. The Technion Society's dinners were well attended, and it was quite active in the first twenty years of its existence. It did not have the financial support to enable it to endow chairs or finance buildings at the Technion (Haifa), but invited several members of the Technion's staff for visits. Many of its members had joined the Friends of the Hebrew University, whose Sydney organisation had been in existence since 1936. His papers consist of correspondence for the Technion Society, the Jewish Fellowship of Architects and Engineers and some anti-Semitic and racist literature of the mid-1960s. He has written many books and was awarded an Order of Australia (AO) for his work
 

ProvenanceCOWAN, Henry J (COWANHJ)
Dates(s)1950 to 1976
Scope & ContentHis papers consist of correspondence for the Technion Society, the Jewish Fellowship of Architects and Engineers and some anti-Semitic and racist literature of the mid-1960s